 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
 | University of Calcutta - 1914 - 822 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...Nor secret vaults to fly From thunder's violence. (5) Life is waning: life is brief; Death, like winter, standeth nigh : Each one like the falling leaf,... | |
 | 1923 - 658 sider
...Whom hope cannot delude, Nor sorrow discontent; That man needs neither towers Nor armor for defense, Nor secret vaults to fly From thunder's violence:...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... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - 1915 - 858 sider
...hopes cannot delude Nor sorrow discontent: That man needs neither towers Nor armour for defence, 10 Nor secret vaults to fly From thunder's violence:...behold With unaffrighted eyes The horrors of the deep 15 And terrors of the skies. Thus scorning all the cares That fate or fortune brings, He makes the... | |
 | Louise Collier Willcox - 1917 - 330 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... | |
 | Louise Collier Willcox - 1917 - 330 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 thoughts... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1918 - 1116 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... | |
 | 1918 - 2062 sider
...Whom hope cannot delude, Nor sorrow discontent; That man needs neither towers Nor armor for defense, wealth divide, And e'en the bare-worn common is denied....there? To see profusion that he must not share; To sec cares That fate or fortune brings, He makes the heaven his book, His wisdom heavenly things; Good thoughts... | |
 | Edmund H. Fellowes - 1920 - 698 sider
...vanity : That 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 his heaven his book, His wisdom heavenly things. Good thoughts... | |
 | Edmund H. Fellowes - 1920 - 712 sider
...sorrows 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 unaffrighted...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... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1921 - 168 sider
...hopes cannot delude Nor sorrow discontent : That man needs neither towers Nor armour for defence, 10 Nor secret vaults to fly From thunder's violence :...behold With unaffrighted eyes The horrors of the deep 15 And terrors of the skies. Thus scorning all the cares That fate or fortune brings, He makes the... | |
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