| Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...humankind, Whose life is healthful, and whose conscience clear, Because he wants a thousand pounds a year. Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well...lies. Fortune in men has some small difference made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade; The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, The friar... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1822 - 368 pages
...both are defective, weak, fallible : and yet if the former were more extensive, more acute, NOTES. Fortune in Men has some small difference made, 195...One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade ; The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd. " What differ more... | |
| Hunting - 1822 - 440 pages
...gave his senate law." In fine, he has, through an, extended life, illustrated the observation, that " Honour and shame from no condition rise, Act well your part, there all the honour lies." And he has acted well his part, Oo and been rewarded with a due share of reputation. I notice that... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1822 - 370 pages
...worthy man does not possess a large and ample fortune, but because he sometimes wants even necessaries. Honour and shame from no Condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies. NOTES. Ver. 194. Act well your part, ,] The Ancients were very fond of this comparison of human life... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1822 - 372 pages
...worthy man does not possess a large and ample fortune, but because he sometimes wants even necessaries. Honour and shame from no Condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies. NOTES. Ver. 194. Act well your part,] The Ancients were very fond of this comparison of human life... | |
| 1843 - 684 pages
...; and though no other eye beholds him, the gracious reward shall not the less certainly be given. " Honour and shame from no condition rise : Act well your part ; there all the honour lies." Thomas Clarkson, whose father was the Rev. W. Clarkson, Master of the Grammar-School at Wisbeach, was... | |
| Morgan Williams - Epitaphs - 1822 - 728 pages
...he who acts the greatest part,. But they who act the best will be, The happiest men eternally. II. Honour and shame from no condition rise : Act well your part; there, all the honour lies For two Infants. Poor little faded flowers ! — an early doom Gonsign'd ye here to wither in the tomb... | |
| William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...delights, if thou canst give, MJrth, with thee I mean to live. i • HI. — On the Pursuits of Mankind. HONOUR and shame from no condition rise ; Act well...lies. Fortune in men has some small difference made ; One flaunts in rags — one flutters in brocade ; The cobbler apfon'd, and the parson gown'd ; The... | |
| Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1824 - 84 pages
...190 Whose life is healthful, and whose conscience cla»r, Because he wants a thousand pounds a year. Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well...lies. Fortune in men has some small difference made, 19P One flaunt in rags, one flutters in brocade ; The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, The friar... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...kind, Whose life is healthful, and whose conscience clear, Because he wants a thousand pounds a year. t path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum : Now teach me, maid One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade ; The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, The friar... | |
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