| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English essays - 1875 - 474 pages
...his sword hath slain ? Greatness and goodness are not means but ends! Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The good great man ? Three treasures, love and light, And calm thoughts regular as infant's breath: And three firm friends, more sure than day and night, Himself, his Maker,... | |
| Select thoughts, Edwin Davies (D.D.) - 1875 - 858 pages
...Addisun. GREAT and GOOD. Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends : Hath he not always treasures, always friends — The good great man? — three treasures — love, and light, And calm thoughts, regulur as infants' breath ; And three firm friends, niorc sure than day and night — Ilim»elf, his... | |
| English poetry - 1876 - 508 pages
...his sword hath slain ? Goodness and greatness are not means, but ends. Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The good great man ? Three treasures...night — Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death ? SAMUEL T. COLERIDGE. On His Blindness. WHEN I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days, in... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 576 pages
...greatness are not means, but ends. Hath he not always treasures, always friends, — The great good man ? Three treasures, — love, and light, And calm...night, — Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE. EXAMPLE. WE scatter seeds with careless hand, And dream we ne'er shall see... | |
| George Stillman Hillard, Homer Baxter Sprague - Elocution - 1876 - 454 pages
...his sword hath slain ? Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends. Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The good great man ? three treasures, — love and light, And calm thoughts, regular as infants' breath ; And three firm friends, more sure than day and night, — Himself, his... | |
| James Willis Westlake - American literature - 1876 - 168 pages
...IIL Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends ! Hath he not always treasures, always fr1ends, The good great man? — three treasures, — love, and light, And calm thoughts, regular as infants' breath ; And three firm friends, more snre than day and night, — Himself, his... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 630 pages
...greatness are not means, but ends. Hath he not always treasures, always friends, — The great good man ? Three treasures, — love, and light, And calm...night, — Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death. SAUUKL TAYLOR COLERIDGE. EXAMPLE. WE scatter seeds with careless hand, And dream we ne'er shall see... | |
| Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...and greatness are not means, but ends. Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The great good - , g Coleridge. 1605. GREAT MEN : not to be envied. THEY that stand high have many blasts to shake them... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1877 - 408 pages
...his sword had slain ? Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends ! Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The good great man ? three treasures, LOVE, and LIGHT, And CALM THOUGHTS, regular as infant's breath : And three firm friends, more sure than day and night, HIMSELF, his MAKER,... | |
| Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1877 - 416 pages
...his sword had slain ? Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends ! Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The good great man ? three treasures, LOVE, and LIGHT, And CALM THOUGHTS, regular as infant's breath : And three firm friends, more sure than day and night, HIMSELF, his MAKER,... | |
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