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
| Mary Minerva Barrows - 1905 - 208 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... | |
| 1905 - 408 sider
...harmless joys are spent, Whom hopes cannot delude, Nor sorrow discontent : That man needs neither tower Nor armour for defence, Nor secret vaults to fly From...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... | |
| 1905 - 318 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...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... | |
| Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1906 - 352 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... | |
| Arthur Symons - 1906 - 526 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 ; THE MAN... | |
| Francis Turner Palgrave - 1906 - 414 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... | |
| Arthur Symons - 1906 - 426 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 for defence, Nor secret vaults to fly From thunder s violence : He only can behold With unaffrighted eyes The horrors of the deep And terrors... | |
| Charles Eliot Norton - 1906 - 416 sider
...for defence, Nor secret vaults to fly Prom thunder's violence: He only can behold With unaff righted eyes The horrors of the 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... | |
| Hamilton Wright Mabie - 1906 - 254 sider
...sorrow discontent; That man needs neither towers Nor armour for defence, Nor secret vaults to flie From thunder's violence; He only can behold With unafFrighted eyes The horrors of the deep The terrors of the skies. Thus, scorning all the cares That fate or fortune brings, He makes the heav'n... | |
| William Stanley Braithwaite - 1907 - 892 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, Good thoughts his only friends, His... | |
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