 | English poetry - 1851 - 496 pages
...who never understood How deepest wounds are given by praise, Nor rules of state, hut rules of good. Who hath his life from rumours freed, Whose conscience...retreat ; Whose state can neither flatterers feed, Nor ruin make oppressors great. Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend ;... | |
 | Charles Mackay - Ballads, English - 1851 - 332 pages
...hath ever understood ; How deepest wounds are given by praise, Nor rules of state, but rules of good Who hath his life from rumours freed, Whose conscience...retreat; Whose state can neither flatterers feed, Nor ruin make oppressors great. Who GOD doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend :... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...who never understood How deepest wounds are given by praise ; Nor rules of state, but rules of good: Who hath his life from rumours freed, Whose conscience...retreat; Whose state can neither flatterers feed, Nor ruin make oppressors great. Who God doth late and early pray, More of his grace than gifts to lend... | |
 | William Chambers - Children's poetry - 1851 - 200 pages
...who never understood How deepest wounds are given by praise, Nor rules of state, but rules of good. Who hath his life from rumours freed, Whose conscience...retreat; Whose state can neither flatterers feed, No ruin make oppressors great. Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend;... | |
 | Hannah Flagg Gould - English poetry - 1851 - 300 pages
...wounds are given by praise : Nor rules of state, but rules of good : — Who hath his life from rumors freed, Whose conscience is his strong retreat : Whose state can neither flatterers feed, Nor ruin make oppressors great ; — Who God doth late and early pray, More of his grace than gifts to... | |
 | 1851 - 362 pages
...still prepar'd for death; Not ty'd unto the world with саге Of princes ear, or vulgar breath : \Vho hath his life from rumours freed ; Whose conscience is his strong retreat : 10 Whose state can neither .flatterers feed. Nor ruine make oppressors great : Who envies none, whom... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...hath ever unden tood ; How deepest wounds are giv'n by praise, Nor rules of state, but rules of good. Who hath his life from rumours freed, Whose conscience...state can neither flatterers feed, Nor ruine make oppressors great. W/ho God doth late and early pray, More of his grace than/gifts to lend: And entertains... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd, John Nyren - 1852 - 626 pages
...understood How deepest wounds are given by praise ; Nor rules of state, but rules of good : VOL. III. L Who hath his life from rumours freed, Whose conscience...retreat ; Whose state can neither flatterers feed, Nor ruin make oppressors great : Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend;... | |
 | Church of the Disciples (Boston, Mass.) - Unitarian churches - 1852 - 674 pages
...Untied unto the world by care Of public fame, or private breath; — 3 Who hath his life from rumors freed ; Whose conscience is his strong retreat ; Whose state can neither flatterers feed, Nor ruin make oppressors great ; — 4 Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to... | |
 | Hymns, English - 1853 - 596 pages
...is still prepared for death ; Not tied unto the world by care Of public fame, or private breath : 3 Who hath his life from rumours freed ; Whose conscience...retreat ; Whose state can neither flatterers feed, Nor ruin make oppressors great : 4 Who God doth late and early pray, More of his grace than gifts to lend... | |
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This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall : Lord of himself... 
