 | Horace Walpole - English literature - 1806 - 430 pages
...flie from thunders violence : Hee onelie can behold, with unaffrighted eyes, The horrors of the deepe and terrors of the skies. Thus, scorning all the care that fate or fortune brings, Hee makes the heaven his booke, his wisdome heavenlie things : Good thoughts his onelie freinds, his... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1877 - 1014 pages
...lines as might very well have been written by Bacon, or by a hundred other people. VERSES MADE BY MB. FRANCIS BACON. The man of life upright, whose guiltless...fly from thunder's violence: He only can behold with unaflYighted eyes The horrors of the deep and terrors of the skies; Thus scorning all the care that... | |
 | Edward Arber - English literature - 1883 - 674 pages
...vanity : That man whose silent days in harmless joys are spent, Whom hopes cannot delude, nor sorrow discontent : That man needs neither towers nor armour...deep, and terrors of the skies, Thus scorning all the cares, that Fate or Fortune brings, 392 LYRICS, ELEGIES, &c. FROM [ fEd. byR. Aliwi ! 1606 He makes... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English literature - 1879 - 852 pages
...such lines as might very well have been written by Bacon, or by a hundred other people. VERSES MADE BT MR. FRANCIS BACON. The man of life upright, whose...fly from thunder's violence: He only can behold with unnffrighted eyes The horrors of the deep and terrors of the skies; Thus scorning all the care that... | |
 | William Henry Smith - 1884 - 60 pages
...needs neither towers nor armor for defenc Nor secret vaults to flie from thunder's violence ; He onelie can behold with unaffrighted eyes The horrors of the...skies. Thus scorning all the care that fate or fortune bring He makes the heaven his booke, his wisdom heavenlie things ; Good thoughts his only friends,... | |
 | Arthur Henry Bullen - Ballads, English - 1887 - 244 pages
...vanity ; The man whose silent days In harmless joys are spent, Whom hopes cannot delude Nor sorrow discontent : That man needs neither towers Nor armour...From thunder's violence : He only can behold With unaflrighted eyes The horrors of the deep And terrors of the skies. Thus scorning all the cares That... | |
 | History - 1888 - 746 pages
...defence, Nor secret vaulls to fly from thunder's violence; He only can behold with unaffrighted eyos The horrors of the deep and terrors of the skies ; Thus scorning all the care (hat Fate or Fortune brings, He makes the Heaven his book, bis wisdom heavenly things; Good thoughts... | |
 | Thomas Campion - Printing (Limited editions: Chiswick press) - 1889 - 450 pages
...wrongly attributed to Bacon. That man needs neither towers Nor armour for defence, Nor secret vauts ' to fly From thunder's violence : He only can behold...deep And terrors of the skies. Thus, scorning all the cares That fate or fortune brings, He makes the heaven his book, His wisdom heavenly things ; Good... | |
 | Thomas Campion - Poetry, Modern - 1889 - 446 pages
...discontent ; That man needs neither towers, Nor armour for defence, Nor vaults his guilt to shroud From thunder's violence ; He only can behold With...deep And terrors of the skies. Thus, scorning all the cares That fate or fortune brings, His book the heavens he makes, His wisdom heavenly things ; Good... | |
 | English poetry - 1890 - 470 pages
...of vanity; The man whose silent days In harmless joys are spent, Whom hopes cannot delude Nor sorrow discontent : That man needs neither towers Nor armour...deep And terrors of the skies. Thus scorning all the cares That fate or fortune brings, He makes the heaven his book, His wisdom heavenly things ; Good... | |
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The man of life upright, Whose guiltless heart is free From all dishonest deeds, Or thought of vanity; The man whose silent days In harmless joys are spent, Whom hopes cannot delude Nor sorrow discontent: That man needs neither towers Nor armour for defence.... 
