 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1872 - 582 psl.
...of this part which I have set down (if a very little were corrected) I should hardly now be much " This only grant me, that my means may lie, Too low for envy, for contempt too high. Some honor I would have, Not from great deeds, but good alone ; The unknown are better than ill known; Rumor... | |
 | Ann Taylor - 1874 - 370 psl.
...Children — Providence and Life — Letter from Isaac Taylor. CHAPTER VI. NOTTINGHAM. 1840-1850. " Some honour I would have, Not from great deeds, but good alone." COWLEY. " Faith that soars on high, And Sympathy that dwells on earth." " TANNHAUSER." IN the ten years... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 392 psl.
...at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. ABRAHAM COWLEY. [1618-1667.] OF MYSELF. THIS only grant me, that my means may lie Too low for envy, for contempt too high. Some honor I would have, Xot from great deeds, but good alone ; The unknown are better than ill known :... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 psl.
...loved my worthless rhymes; and, like a friend, Would always find out something to commend. COWLEY. Acquaintance I would have, but when 't depends Not on the number but the choice of friends. COWLEY. The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumping on your back His sense of your great... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 560 psl.
...once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. ABRAHAM COWLEY. [1618-1667.1 OF MYSELF. Tins only grant me, that my means may lie Too low for envy, for contempt too high. Some honor I would have, Not from great deeds, but good alone ; The unknown are better than ill known :... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1876 - 562 psl.
...at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. ABRAHAM COWLEY. [1618-1667.I OF MYSELF. THIS only grant me, that my means may lie Too low for envy, for contempt too high. Some honor I would have, Not from great deeds, but good alone; The unknown are better than ill known : Rumor... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 840 psl.
...every other sprite, Thou attempt's! not men to fright, Nor appear'st but in the light. OF MYSELF. • THIS only grant me, that my means may lie Too low for envy, for contempt too high. Some honor I would have, Not from great deeds, but good alone. Th' unknown are better than ill known : Rumor... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 576 psl.
...Thus do I live, thus will I die ; Would all did so as well as 1 ! SIR EDWARD DYER. OF MYSELF. Tins only grant me, that my means may lie Too low for envy, for contempt too high. Some honor 1 would have, Not from great deeds, but good alone ; The unknown are better than ill known :... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 psl.
...would have, Not from great deeds, but good alone. The unknown are better than ill-known. Rumour cau ope' the grave, Acquaintance I would have, but when 't depends Not 011 the number, but the choice of friends. Books should, not business, entertain the light. And Bleep,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1877 - 558 psl.
...part which I here set down, if a very little were corrected, I should hardly now be much ashamed. " This only grant me, that my means may lie Too low for envy, for contempt too high. Some honor I would have, Not from great deeds, tut good alone. The unknown are better than ill known ; Rumor... | |
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Rumour can ope the grave. Acquaintance I would have, but when "t depends Not on the number, but the choice, of friends. Books should, not business, entertain the light, And sleep, as undisturb'd as death, the night. 
