| Apollo - 1800 - 224 pages
...envies not thy blow ? Who would not wifh AN YTUS for a foe ? Intrepid virtue triumphs over fate, The good can never be unfortunate. And be this maxim graven...— The height of virtue is to ferve mankind. But wnen old age has filver'd o'er thy head, When memory fails, and 'all thy vigour's fled, Then may'ft... | |
| English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 302 pages
...man envies not thy blow ? Who would not wish Anytus for a foe ? Intrepid Virtue triumphs over Fate, And be this. maxim graven in thy mind, The height of virtue is to serve mankind. But when old age has silver'd o'er thy head, When memory fails, and all thy vigour's... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 628 pages
...envies not thy blow? Who wouM not wish Anytus '•* for a foe ? Intrepid Virtue triumphs over Fate, The good can never be unfortunate. And be this maxim graven in thy mind, The height of virtue is to serve mankind. "But when old age has silver'd o'er thy head, When memory fails, and all thy vigour... | |
| Lindley Murray - Readers - 1812 - 378 pages
...envies not thy blow f Who would not wish Aoytus* for a foe? Intrepid virtue triumphs over fate : The good can never be unfortunate, And be this maxim graven in thy mind; The height of virtue is, to serve mankind. But when old age has silver'd o'er thy head, When memory fails; and all thy vigour's... | |
| Lindley Murray - Readers - 1813 - 276 pages
...blow-,? i SVIio would not wisIi AnyI us for a foe ? Intrepid virtue triumphs over fate : The good ean never be unfortunate. And 'be this maxim graven in thy mind : The height of virllle is, to serve mankind. But when old age has silver'd o'er thy bead, When memory fails and all... | |
| Lindley Murray - Anthologies - 1821 - 280 pages
...envies not thy blow ? Who would not wish Anytus* for a foe ? Intrepid virtue triumphs over fate : The good can never be unfortunate ; And be this maxim graven in thy mind ; The height of virtue is, to serve mankind. 16 But when old age has silver'd o'er thy head, When memory fails, and all thy vigour's... | |
| Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - Literature - 1822 - 322 pages
...envies not thy blow? Who would not wish Anytus^* for a foe? Intrepid virtue triumphs over fate : The good can never be unfortunate; And be this maxim graven in thy mind; The height of virtue is, to serve mankind. 16. But when old age has silverM o'er thy head When memory fails, and all thy vigour's... | |
| Lindley Murray - Readers - 1822 - 312 pages
...I Intrepid virtue triumphs over fate : Who would not wish Any.us* for a toe I The good can never bt unfortunate. And be this maxim graven in thy mind ; The height of virtue is, to serve mankind. But when old age has silver'd o'er thy head, When memory fails, and all thy vigour-s... | |
| Lindley Murray - Readers - 1825 - 270 pages
...envies not thy blow ? Who would not wish Anytus* for a foe ? Intrepid virtue triumphs over fate : The good can never be unfortunate ; And be this maxim graven in thy mind ; The height of virtue is, to serve mankind. But when old age has silver'd o'er thy head, When memory fails, and all thy vigour's... | |
| Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - Readers - 1825 - 316 pages
...must feel her rod. Who would not wish Anytus* for a foe ? Intrepid virtue triumphs over fate : The good can never be unfortunate ; And be this maxim graven in thy mind ; The height ef virtue is, to serve mankind. But when the demons of the tempest rave, Skill must conduct the vessel... | |
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