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 114af Francis Bacon - 1864Fuld visning - Om denne bog
| 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... | |
| John Addington Symonds - 1893 - 338 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...fly From thunder's violence. He only can behold With unaffrightcd eyes The horrors of the deep And terrors of the skies. Thus scorning all the cares That... | |
| Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1895 - 438 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...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... | |
| William Baker - 1895 - 152 sider
...vanity ; The man whose silent days In harmless joys are spent, Whom hopes cannot delude, Nor sorrows 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. MTS TERCENTENARY... | |
| Kate Stephens, Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - 1895 - 392 sider
...vanity; The man whose silent days In harmless joys are spent, That man needs neither towers Nor armor for defence, Nor secret vaults to fly From thunder's...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 thoughts... | |
| Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - 1895 - 396 sider
...are spent, Whom hopes can not delude Nor sorrow discontent : That man needs neither towers Nor armor for defence. Nor secret vaults to fly From thunder's violence : He only can behold With unaffrightcd eyes The horrors of the deep And terrors of the skies. Thus scorning all the cares That... | |
| John White Chadwick - 1896 - 284 sider
...spent, Whom hopes cannot delude, Nor sorrows discontent,— That man needs neither towers Nor armor for defence, Nor secret vaults to fly From thunder's...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 thoughts... | |
| John White Chadwick - 1896 - 282 sider
...spent, Whom hopes cannot delude, Nor sorrows discontent, — That man needs neither towers Nor armor for defence, Nor secret vaults to fly From thunder's...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 thoughts... | |
| Oswald Crawfurd - 1896 - 494 sider
...From all dishonest deeds, Or thought of vanity; The man whose silent days In harmless joys are spent, That man needs neither towers Nor armour for defence,...From thunder's violence : He only can behold With unaflfrighted eyes The horrors of the deep And terrors of the skies. Thus scorning all the cares That... | |
| Frederic Ives Carpenter - 1897 - 356 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 thoughts... | |
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