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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.... "
The Works of Francis Bacon ...: Literary and professional works - Page 272
by Francis Bacon - 1859
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A Little Book of Life and Death. [An Anthology]

Elizabeth Waterhouse - Death in literature - 1902 - 526 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...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 Golden Treasury Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the ...

Francis Turner Palgrave - 1902 - 394 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 nnaffrighted eyes The horrors of the deep And terrors of the skies. Thus scorning all the cares That...
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A Brotherhood Treasury of English Lyrics

English poetry - 1903 - 60 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...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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Shorter Elizabethan Poems, Volume 8

Thomas Seccombe - Ballads, English - 1903 - 396 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...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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Lyra Sacra: A Book of Religious Verse

Henry Charles Beeching - Religious poetry, English - 1903 - 454 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...The horrors of the deep And terrors of the skies. The name of Campion was unknown to this generation, although famous in his own, until first Mr Arber,...
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Lyra Sacra: A Book of Religious Verse

Henry Charles Beeching - Religious poetry, English - 1903 - 460 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 for defence, Nor secret vaults to fly From1 thunder's violence : He only can behold With unaffrighted eyes The horrors of the deep And terrors...
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Songs and Masques, with Observations in the Art of English Poesy

Thomas Campion - English poetry - 1903 - 340 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 for defence, Nor secret vauts to fly He only can behold With unaffrighted eyes The horrors of the deep And terrors of the skies....
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Useful Instruction (In Matters Religious, Moral and Other.)

Motilal M. Munshi - 1904 - 502 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...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 ; 126 Good...
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Forms of English Poetry

Charles Frederick Johnson - English language - 1904 - 380 pages
...Whom hopes cannot delude Nor sorrow discontent, That man needs neither towers Nor armor for defense, Nor secret vaults to fly From thunder's violence....deep And terrors of the skies. Thus scorning all the cares That faith or fortune brings, He makes the heaven his book, His wisdom heavenly things. Good...
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Fifth Reading Book

William T. Vlymen - Readers - 1904 - 520 pages
...Nor sorrow discontent: That man needs neither towers Nor armor for defense, Nor secret vaults to fly He only can behold With unaffrighted eyes The horrors...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 thoughts...
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