 | Joseph Angus - English literature - 1880 - 726 pages
...die, And give the world the lie. Go, tell the Court it glows And shines bke rotten wood -. Go, tell the Church it shows What's good, and doth no good....and Court reply, Then give them both the lie. Tell Potentates they live Acting by others' actions. Sot loved unless they give, Not strong but by their... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1124 pages
...die, And give the world the lie. Go, tell the court it glows And shines like rotten wood ; Go, tell mes Grant Wilson potentates they live Acting by others' action, Not loved unless they give, Not strong but by a faction... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1880 - 842 pages
...world the lie. Go, tell the court it glows, And shines like rotten wood ; Go, tell the church it shews What's good, and doth no good. If church and court reply. Then give them both the lie. Tell potentates they Iiv<» Acting by others' action, Not loved unless they give, Not strong but by a laction.... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 628 pages
...the best ; The truth shall be thy warrant : Go, since I needs must die, And give the world the lie. Say to the court, it glows And shines like rotten wood ; Say to the church, it shows What 's good, and doth no good : If court and church reply, Then give them both the lie. Tell potentates,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 632 pages
...the best ; The truth shall be thy warrant : Go, since I needs must die, And give the world the lie. Say to the court, it glows And shines like rotten wood ; Say to the church, it shows What 's good, and doth no good ; If court and church reply, Then give them both the lie. Tell potentates,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 626 pages
...the best ; The truth shall be thy warrant : Go, since I needs must die, And give the world the lie. Say to the court, it glows And shines like rotten wood ; Say to the church, it shows What 's good, and doth no good : If court and church reply, Then give them both the lie. Tell potentates,... | |
 | Barbara Herrnstein Smith - Literary Criticism - 1968 - 307 pages
...the company it keeps. Ralegh's disillusionment was comprehensive, radical, reductive, and nihilistic: Tell men of high condition, that manage the estate, Their purpose is ambition their practice onely hate . . . Tell Arts they have no soundnesse . . . Tell zeale it wants devotion tell love it... | |
 | Russell Kirk - Social Science - 1993 - 136 pages
...touch the best; The truth shall be thy warrant. Go, since I needs must die, And give the world the lie. Say to the court, it glows And shines like rotten...good, and doth no good: If church and court reply, Tell zeal it wants devotion; Tell love it is but lust; Tell time it meets but motion; Tell flesh it... | |
 | Rosemary Horrox - History - 1994 - 260 pages
...under pressure to get results. Over two centuries later Sir Walter Raleigh was to return to the attack: Tell men of high condition That manage the estate Their purpose is ambition, Their practice only hate.32 "> AC Cawley (ed.), Everyman and Medieval Mystery Plays (1967), pp. 122, 125-7; Peter Happe... | |
 | Kenneth John Emerson Graham - History - 1994 - 260 pages
...the good: Say to the Court it glowes, and shines like rotten wood, Say to the Church it showes whats good, and doth no good. If Church and Court reply, then give them both the lie. (7-12) He also aims here at two traditional sources of corruption, the 19 Sir Walter Ralegh, "The Lie,"... | |
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Say to the court, it glows, And shines like rotten wood; Say to the church, it shows What's good, and doth no good. If church and court reply, Then give them both the lie. Tell potentates they live Acting by others' action; Not loved unless they give,... 
