 | Samuel Hazard - Pennsylvania - 1828 - 408 pages
...0F THE LATE MAJOR GENERAL ASTHONY WAYNE. Fashioned much to honour from his cradle, He was a soldier, and a ripe and good one; Exceeding wise, .fair spoken, and persuading; Lofty and sour to those that loved him not; But to those men that sought him sweet as summer. Heard ye him talk of Commonwealths,... | |
 | Classical philology - 1829 - 336 pages
...KATHARINE. GRIFF. This cardinal, Though from an humble stock, undoubtedly Was fashion'd to much honor. From his cradle He was a scholar, and a ripe and good...spoken, and persuading : Lofty and sour to them that loved him not ; But to those men that sought him, sweet as summer. And though he were unsatisfied in... | |
 | William Bentley Fowle - English language - 1829 - 62 pages
...unmingled, uncontaminated and uncorrupted. This Cardinal, Though from an humble, undoubtedly Was fashioned to much honour. From his cradle He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one ; Exceeding wise, fair-spoken and persuading: Lofty and sour o them that lov'd him not; But to those mei that sought... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...malicious else. Grif. This cardinal, Though from an humble stock, undoubtedly Was fashion'd to much honor. From his cradle, He was a scholar, and a ripe, and...spoken, and persuading : Lofty, and sour, to them thatlov'd him not; But, to those men that sought him, sweet as summetAnd though he were unsatisfied... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1831 - 528 pages
...Grif. Tliia cardinal, Though from an humble stock, undoubtedly Was fashion'd to* much honour. From hi« cradle, He was a scholar, and a ripe, and good one ; Exceeding wise, fair-spoken, and persuading : Lofty, and «our, to them that lov'd him not ; But, to those men that... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 584 pages
...friend, Mr. Thrale, that i Published by Keareley, with this well-chosen motto: " _^-^_———— From his cradle He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one: And, to add greater honours to his age Than man could give him, he died fearing Heaven." SHAKSPEARE.... | |
 | John Genest - Theater - 1832 - 716 pages
...honour. From his cradle, " He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one." Kemble reads — " Was fashioned to much honour from his cradle : " He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one." the old reading is the better — Kemble by altering the punctuation has perverted Shakspeare's meaning,... | |
 | British literature - 1834 - 532 pages
...— " This Cardinal, Though from an humble stuck, undoubtedly Was fashioned to much honour. From bis cradle He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one; Exceeding wise, fair-spoken and persuading : Lni'tv and sour to them that loved him not ; But to those men that sought... | |
 | Edward Jesse - Animal behavior - 1835 - 352 pages
...founder of Christ Church College, at Oxford, and also of a College at his native place, Ipswich. ' from his cradle ' He was a scholar and a ripe and...spoken, and persuading : ' Lofty and sour, to them that loved him not ; ' But to those men that sought him, sweet as summer. ' And though he were unsatisfied... | |
 | 1834 - 464 pages
...epitaph : — " This bishop, Though from an humble stock, undoubtedly Was fashioned to much honor. From his cradle He was a scholar, and a ripe and good...one ; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading. — In bestowing, He was most princely. And, to add greater honors to his age Than man could give him,... | |
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He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one ; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading : Lofty and sour to them that loved him not ; But, to those men that sought him, sweet as summer... 
