 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1902 - 860 pages
...ancestors enlarge, Produce their debt instead of their discharge. From the 'First Epistle to Mr Pope.' hrice The raven flapped his wing. Too well the love-lorn ; With hearty malice, but with feeble wing, (To show they live) they flutter and they sting : But as... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1900 - 154 pages
...Perhaps it is too much to say that he never had any, for that is not the happy lot of any public man. With fame, in just proportion, envy grows, The man that makes a character, nialies foes. But they were not personal ones. They could not be. The very nature, the very make-up,... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - English poetry - 1909 - 636 pages
...his downy pinions flies from woe, And lights on lids unsullied by a tear ! 1121. AUTHORS AND CRITICS WITH fame in just proportion envy grows ; The man...genius rise, As a bright day awakes the world of flies ; With hearty malice, but with feeble wing, To show they live, they flutter and they sting : But as... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1911 - 784 pages
...enjoys, But, more or less, his rival's peace destroys. 1571 Young : Epis. to Pope. Epis. i. Line 25 With fame, in just proportion, envy grows ; The man that makes a character, makes foes. 1572 Young : Epis. to Pope. Epis. i. Line 27 For what is fame But the benignant strength of One, transformed... | |
 | Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - Quotations - 1911 - 784 pages
...fame ; &nd those who fear not guilt, yet start at shame. 1570 Churchill: The Author. Line 233 Fame is a public mistress, none enjoys, But, more or less, his rival's peace destroys. 1571 Young : Epis. to Pope. Epis. i. Line 25 With fame, in just proportion, envy grows ; The man that... | |
 | Henry Charles Shelley - Poets, English - 1914 - 360 pages
...file ; Merit less solid, less despite had bred ; They had not bit, and then they had not bled. Fame is a public mistress none enjoys But, more or less,...genius rise, As a bright day awakes the world of flies ; With hearty malice, but with feeble wing, (To show they live) they flutter, and they sting : But... | |
 | Fernando Palazzi, Silvio Spaventa Filippi - Quotations - 1927 - 994 pages
...L'envie est ce qui ressemble le plus a l'amour: étre envié, e 'est : presque étre airaé. 3671. With fame, in just proportion, envy grows; | The man that makes a charactcr makes foes. 3672. L'horame qui dit qu'il n'cst pas heureux, pourrait du moins le devenir... | |
 | Henry Charles Shelley - Poets, English - 1914 - 358 pages
...had not bit, and then they had not bled. Fame is a public mistress none enjoys But, more or less, bis rival's peace destroys ; With fame, in just proportion,...genius rise, As a bright day awakes the world of flies ; With hearty malice, but with feeble wing, (To show they live) they flutter, and they sting : But... | |
 | Edwin Markham - American poetry - 1927 - 386 pages
...magnanimity of thought Resolves, and re-resolves, then, dies the same. Fame and Envy FROM "EPISTLE TO POPE" WITH fame in just proportion envy grows; The man that...genius rise, As a bright day awakes the world of flies. With hearty malice, but with feeble wing, To show they live, they flutter and they sting; But as by... | |
 | Textile fabrics - 1887 - 412 pages
...renders it quite certain that peace will prevail. — Boitonian. It will be either peace or pieces. WITH fame, in just proportion, envy grows, The man that makes a character, makes foes. — Y<n,ng. THERE are reproaches which praise, and praises which slander. TWIN sisters are truth and... | |
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With fame, in just proportion, envy grows ; The man that makes a character, makes foes : Slight, peevish insects round a genius rise, As a bright day awakes the world of flies ; With hearty malice, but with feeble wing, (To show they live) they flutter,... 
