 | West Church (Boston, Mass.) - Congregational churches - 1849 - 572 pages
...latest breath, Thy love and guardian care. LM 480.. SIRH. WOTTON. The Character of a happy Life. 1 How happy is he born and taught, That serveth not another's will, Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill ! 2 Whose passions not his masters... | |
 | William Ewart - Dictation (Educational method) - 1849 - 94 pages
...His love-chant, and disburden his full soul Of all its music. 142. A HAPPY LiFE. [HENRY WOTTON.] 1. How happy is he born and taught, That serveth not another's will ; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill. 2. Whose passions not his... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1850 - 710 pages
...Contentment be a stranger then, I'll ne'er look for it, but in heaven again. The Character of a, llappy r'd god ; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill ! Whose passions not his masters... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 602 pages
...holy melancholy ; And if Contentment be a stranger then, I'll ne'er look for it, but in heaven again. THE CHARACTER OF A HAPPY LIFE. How happy is he born and taught, That serveth not another's will; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill. Whose passions not his masters... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...holy melancholy , And if Contentment be a stranger then, I'll ne'er look for it, but in heaven again. THE CHARACTER OF A HAPPY LIFE. How happy is he born and taught, That serveth not another's will; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill. Whose passions not his masters... | |
 | English poetry - 1851 - 496 pages
...Belov'd of heaven, although the world doth hate him. SIR HENEY WOTTON. BOBN, 1568; DIED, 1639. THE HAPPY LIFE. How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will ; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill ! Whose passions not his masters... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...vertu* first, then choice a queen, Tell me, if she were not design'd Th' eclipse and glory of her kind? The Character of a happy Life. How happy is he born and taught, That serveth not another's will ! Whose armour is his honest thought And simple truth his utmost skill! Whose passions not his masters... | |
 | Church of the Disciples (Boston, Mass.) - Unitarian churches - 1852 - 674 pages
...Emanuel's ground To fairer worlds on high. 121 LM SIR H. WOTTON. Character of a ?i]nj){)i! JLilt. 1 How happy is he born and taught, That serveth not another's will, Whose armor is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill ! 2 Whose passions not his masters... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd, John Nyren - 1852 - 626 pages
...imagination of the reader. THE CHARACTER OP A HAPPY LIFE. BY SIR HENRY WOTTON [BORN 15C8, DIED 1040.] How happy is he born and taught, That serveth not another's will ; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill! Whose passions not his masters... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...wars of women have ; And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, Never to hope again. SHAKSPEAIIE. THE HAPPY LIFE. How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will ; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill ! Whose passions not his masters... | |
| |
Character of a Happy Life HOW happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill ! Whose passions not his masters are; Whose soul is still prepared for death, Untied unto... 
