 The man of life upright, Whose guiltless heart is free From all dishonest deeds, Or thought of vanity; The man whose silent days In harmless joys are spent, Whom hopes cannot delude Nor sorrow discontent: That man needs neither towers Nor armour for defence....  Literary and Professional Works - Side 265af Francis Bacon - 1861Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Horace Walpole - 1806 - 430 sider
...flie from thunders violence : Hee onelie can behold, with unaffrighted eyes, The horrors of the deepe and terrors of the skies. Thus, scorning all the care that fate or fortune brings, Hee makes the heaven his booke, his wisdome heavenlie things : Good thoughts his onelie freinds, his... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1877 - 1014 sider
...such lines as might very well have been written by Bacon, or by a hundred other people. VERSES MADE BY MB. FRANCIS BACON. The man of life upright, whose...fly from thunder's violence: He only can behold with unaflYighted eyes The horrors of the deep and terrors of the skies; Thus scorning all the care that... | |
 | Edward Arber - 1883 - 674 sider
...vanity : That man whose silent days in harmless joys are spent, Whom hopes cannot delude, nor sorrow discontent : That man needs neither towers nor armour...deep, and terrors of the skies, Thus scorning all the cares, that Fate or Fortune brings, 392 LYRICS, ELEGIES, &c. FROM [ fEd. byR. Aliwi ! 1606 He makes... | |
 | William Henry Smith - 1884 - 60 sider
...needs neither towers nor armor for defenc Nor secret vaults to flie from thunder's violence ; He onelie can behold with unaffrighted eyes The horrors of the...skies. Thus scorning all the care that fate or fortune bring He makes the heaven his booke, his wisdom heavenlie things ; Good thoughts his only friends,... | |
 | Arthur Henry Bullen - 1887 - 244 sider
...vanity ; The man whose silent days In harmless joys are spent, Whom hopes cannot delude Nor sorrow discontent : That man needs neither towers Nor armour...From thunder's violence : He only can behold With unaflrighted eyes The horrors of the deep And terrors of the skies. Thus scorning all the cares That... | |
 | 1888 - 746 sider
...defence, Nor secret vaulls to fly from thunder's violence; He only can behold with unaffrighted eyos The horrors of the deep and terrors of the skies ; Thus scorning all the care (hat Fate or Fortune brings, He makes the Heaven his book, bis wisdom heavenly things; Good thoughts... | |
 | Thomas Campion - 1889 - 450 sider
...wrongly attributed to Bacon. That man needs neither towers Nor armour for defence, Nor secret vauts ' to fly From thunder's violence : He only can behold...deep And terrors of the skies. Thus, scorning all the cares That fate or fortune brings, He makes the heaven his book, His wisdom heavenly things ; Good... | |
 | Thomas Campion - 1889 - 446 sider
...discontent ; That man needs neither towers, Nor armour for defence, Nor vaults his guilt to shroud From thunder's violence ; He only can behold With...deep And terrors of the skies. Thus, scorning all the cares That fate or fortune brings, His book the heavens he makes, His wisdom heavenly things ; Good... | |
 | 1890 - 470 sider
...of vanity; The man whose silent days In harmless joys are spent, Whom hopes cannot delude Nor sorrow discontent : That man needs neither towers Nor armour...deep And terrors of the skies. Thus scorning all the cares That fate or fortune brings, He makes the heaven his book, His wisdom heavenly things ; Good... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1891 - 408 sider
...Whom hopes cannot delude Nor sorrow discontent : That man needs neither towers Nor armour for defence, He only can behold With unaffrighted eyes The horrors...deep And terrors of the skies. Thus scorning all the cares That fate or fortune brings, He makes the heaven his book, His wisdom heavenly things ; Good... | |
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