 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 912 pages
...worms he knows, that with their thread Draw out their Clken lives :— nor (liken pride : His lamb's warm fleece well fits his little need, Not in that...fright ; Nor begging wants his middle fortune bite : 2ut fweet content exiles both mil'cry and fpite. IV. Ififtead of mufic, and bafe flattering tongues,... | |
 | Phineas Fletcher - Human body - 1816 - 216 pages
...Serian worms he knows, that with their thread Draw out their silken lives : — nor silken pride : His lambs' warm fleece well fits his little need,...: But sweet content exiles both misery and spite. IV. Instead of music, and base flattering tongues, Which wait to first salute my lord's uprise ; The... | |
 | Phineas Fletcher - English poetry - 1816 - 220 pages
...Serian worms he knows, that with their thread Draw out their silkeu lives : — nor silken pride : Mis lambs' warm fleece well fits his little need, Not...: But sweet content exiles both misery and spite* IV. Instead of music, and base flattering tongues, Which wait to first salute my lord's uprise ; The... | |
 | Phineas Fletcher - English poetry - 1816 - 214 pages
...fright ; Nor begging wants his middle fortune bite : But sweet content exiles both misery and spite. IV. Instead of music, and base flattering tongues, Which...lark wakes him with early songs, And birds' sweet \vhistlingnotesunlockhis eyes. In country plays is all the strife he uses ; Or sing, or dance, unto... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 440 pages
...fleeee well fits his little need, Not in that proud Sidonian tineture dy'd : No empty hopes, no eourtly fears him fright ; Nor begging wants his middle fortune bite : But sweet eontent exiles both misery and spite. Instead of musie and base flattering tongues, Whieh wait to first... | |
 | Rowland Freeman - Authors, English - 1821 - 846 pages
...sheep. No Seiian worms he knows, that with their thread Draw out their silken lives ; nor silken pride : His lambs' warm fleece well fits his little need,...The 'cheerful lark wakes him with early songs, And bird's sweet whistling notes unlock his eyes. In. country plays is all the strife he uses ; Or song... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - Fishing - 1824 - 512 pages
...this good man's mind, and I wish mine to be like it. No empty hopes, no courtly fears him fright, No begging wants, his middle fortune bite, But sweet content exiles both misery and spite. His certain life, that never can deceive him, Is full of thousand sweets, ami rich content ; The smooth-leav'd... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 832 pages
...Against my fire. Id. These are the youths that thunder at a playhouse, and fight for bitten apples. Id. No empty hopes, no courtly fears, him fright ; Nor begging wants his middle fortune hit,-, But sweet content exiles both misery and spite. Fletcher. Purple Iiland. I have known a very... | |
 | English literature - 1834 - 590 pages
...this good man's mind; and I wish mine to belike it. No empty hopes, no courtly fears him fright ; No begging wants his middle fortune bite, But sweet content exiles both misery and spite. His certain life, that never can deceive him, Is full of thousand sweets and rich content ; The smooth-leaved... | |
 | Joseph Edwards - 1835 - 240 pages
...No Serian worms3 he knows, that with their thread Draw out their silken lives: — nor silken pride! His lambs' warm fleece well fits his little need,...; But sweet content exiles both misery and spite. His certain life, that never can deceive him, Is full of thousand sweets and rich content : The smooth-leav'd... | |
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Seiian worms he knows, that with their thread Draw out their silken lives ; nor silken pride : His lambs... 
