 Rumour can ope the grave; Acquaintance I would have ; but when 't depends Not on the number, but the choice of friends. Books should, not business, entertain the light, And sleep, as undisturbed as death, the night.  The Age of Milton - Page 133by John Howard Bertram Masterman - 1897 - 254 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Shiells - 1753 - 366 pages
...fatisfy the reader's curiofity by inferting it here. IX. This only grant me, that my means may lye, Too low for envy', for contempt too high : Some honour...would have ; Not from great deeds, but good alone, The unkaown are better than ill knows, Rumour can ope the grave: Acquaintance I would have, but when... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - English poetry - 1772 - 298 pages
...little were corrected), I fhould hardly now be muc.h afhamed. This only grant me, that my means may Ijc Too low for envy, for contempt too high. Some honour...I would have, Not from great deeds, but good alone ; The unknown are better, than ill known : Rumour can ope the grave. Acquaintance I would have, but... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1772 - 228 pages
...part, which I here fet down (if a very little were corrected), I mould hardly now be much afhamed. This only grant me, that my means- may lie Too low for envy, for contempt too high. K 2 Some Some honour I would have, Not from great deeds, but good alone ; The unknown are better, than'... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - English essays - 1772 - 228 pages
...which I here fet down (if a very little were correfted), I fhould hardly now be much afhamed. 9This only grant me, that my means may lie Too low for envy, for contempt too high. , K z Some Some honour I would have, Not from great deeds, but good alone; The unknown are better,... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1777 - 658 pages
...the guard defend me. IX. This only grant me, that my means may lie 65 Too low for envy, for eontempt too high. .Some honour I would have, Not from great deeds, but good alone ; Th' unknowers are better than ill known : Rumour ean ope the grave. 70 Aequaintants I would have, but when... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 514 pages
...part, which I here fet down (if a very little were correfted) I fhould hardly now be much afhamed. This only grant me, that my means may lie Too low...deeds,, but good alone ; Th' unknown are better than ill knowa i Rumour can ope the grave. Acquaintance I would have, but when 't depends Not on the number,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 424 pages
...this part, which I here fet down (if a very little were correfted) I mould hardly now be much afhamed. This only grant me, that my means may lie Too low...I would have, Not from great deeds, but good alone 5 Th' unknown are better than ill known i Rumour can ope the grave. Acquaintance I would have, but... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 378 pages
...grant me, that my means ma/iie Too low for envy, for contempt too high. Some honour I would have, Hot from great deeds, but good alone ; • Th' unknown are better than ill-known ; • JRumour can ope the grave ! Acquaintance I would have; but when >t depen'ds Not from the number,... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 296 pages
...Fortune, now ! And chines of beef innumerable fend me, Or from the ftomach of the guard defend me. This only grant me, that my means may lie Too low...depends Not from the number, but the choice, of friends. G 3 Books Books fhould, not buftnefs, entertain the light ; And fleep, as undifturb'd as death, the... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 740 pages
...! now, And chines of beef innumerable fend me, Or from the ftomach of the guard defend me. ix. , / This only grant me, that my means may lie / Too low...too high. Some honour I would have, Not from great deed*, but good alone : Th' unknown are better than ill known : Rumour can ope the grave. Acquaintance... | |
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