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Nightingale Valley: A Collection, Including a Great Number of the Choicest ... - Page 14
by William Allingham - 1860 - 288 pages
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The Monthly Magazine, Volume 30

Art - 1810 - 692 pages
...Whose state can neither flatterers feed, . Nor ruine make accusers great. Who envteth лупе whom chance doth raise, Or vice : who never understood, How deepest wounds are given with praise; Not rules of state, but rules of good. Who Cod doth lare and early pray, More of his grjce...
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The Orthodox churchman's magazine; or, A Treasury of divine and ..., Volume 8

1805 - 506 pages
...retreat; Whose state can neither flatterers feed, Nor ruin make accusers great. Who envies none whom chance doth raise, Or vice : who never understood How deepest wounds are giv'n with praise Nor rules of state, but rules of good : Who God doth late and early pray, His graces...
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Selection of Poems ...

Charles Snart - Poetry - 1808 - 506 pages
...Who envies none that chance doth raise, Nor vice : who never understood 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 is his strong retreat; Whose state can neither flatt'rers feed, Nor...
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The British Bibliographer, Volume 2

Samuel Egerton Brydges, Sir Egerton Brydges, Joseph Haslewood - English literature - 1812 - 688 pages
...care Of public fame, or private breath. 3. Who envies none that chance doth raise, Nor vice hath ever understood; How deepest wounds are given by praise, Nor rules of state, but rules of good. 4. Who hath his life from rumours freed, Whose conscience is his strong retreat: Whose state can neither...
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Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Consisting of Old Heroic ..., Volume 1

Thomas Percy - Ballads, English - 1812 - 518 pages
...Not ty'd unto the world with care Of princes ear, or vulgar breath : Who hath his life from rumours freed ; Whose conscience is his strong retreat: Whose state can neither flatterers feed, Nor mine make oppressors great: Who envies none, whom chance doth raise, Or vice : Who never understood...
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The Sylvan Wanderer;: Consisting of a Series of Moral ..., Volumes 1-2

Sir Egerton Brydges - Essays - 1813 - 338 pages
...Who envies none that chance doth raise, Nor vice hath ever understood: 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 is his strong retreat: Whose state can neither flatterers feed, Nor...
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Elegant extracts in poetry, Volume 2

Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...Who envies none that chance doth raise, Nor vice hath ever understood ; How deepest wounds are giv'n 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...
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Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Consisting of Old Heroic ..., Volume 1

Thomas Percy - Ballads, English - 1823 - 524 pages
...10 Whose state can neither flatterers feed, Nor rnine make oppressors great: Who envies none, whom chance doth raise, Or vice: Who never understood How deepest wounds are given with praise; 1-" Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend; And tMitertaines...
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The Sacred Lyre: Comprising Poems, Devotional, Moral and Preceptive ...

Christian poetry, English - 1824 - 430 pages
...wounds are given—by praiw; Nor rules of xtirte,—but rules of good; Who hath his life from rumours 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 lend; And entertains...
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A Selection of Hymns and Psalms for Social and Private Worship

Bible - 1826 - 362 pages
...Untied to this vain 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 lend; To crave...
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