 Which has so many rare and curious pieces Of mathematical motion , to stand still. Virtue is ever sowing of her seeds : In the trenches for the soldier; in the wakeful study For the scholar; in the furrows of the sea For men of our profession : of all...  The watchman - Page 174by James A. Maitland - 1816Full view - About this book
 | John Webster, Alexander Dyce - 1830 - 346 pages
...Alps, Have but exchang'd their virtues at dear rate For other vices. ROM. O, my lord, lie not idle: The chiefest action for a man of great spirit, Is...should think, The soul was never put into the body, 12 THE DEVIL'S LAW-CASE. Which has so many rare and curious pieces Of mathematical motion, to stand... | |
 | John Webster, Alexander Dyce - 1830 - 332 pages
...Alps, Have but exchang'd their virtues at dear rate For other vices. ROM. O, my lord, lie not idle: The chiefest action for a man of great spirit, Is...should think, The soul was never put into the body, 12 THE DEVIL'S LAW-CASE. Which has so many rare and curious pieces Of mathematical motion , to stand... | |
 | John Webster, Alexander Dyce - 1830 - 334 pages
...For other vices. ROM. O, my lord, lie not idle: j The chiefest action for a man of great spirit, {_ Is never to be out of action. We should think, The soul was never put into the body, 12 THE DEVIL'S LAW-CASE. Which has so many rare and curious pieces Of mathematical motion, to stand... | |
 | Charles Lamb - English drama - 1845 - 484 pages
...model of a well managed and gentlemanlike difference. Honorable Employment. Oh, my lord, lie not idle : The chiefest action for a man of great spirit Is never to be out of action. We should think j The soul was never put into the body, Which has so many rare and curious pieces Of mathematical motion,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Literary forgeries and mystifications - 1856 - 414 pages
...which he was printing. Komelio is recommending Coiitarino to travel : " 0, my lord, lie not idle ; The chiefest action for a man of great spirit Is never to be out of action." Now, surely it is clear that " action " in the second line ought to be axiom, — " 0, my lord, lie... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Literary forgeries and mystifications - 1856 - 518 pages
...that which he was printing. Romelio is recommending Contarino to travel : " O, my lord, lie not idle ; The chiefest action for a man of great spirit Is never to be out of action." Now, surely it is clear that "action" in the second line ought to be axiom, — "O, my lord, lie not... | |
 | John Webster, Alexander Dyce - Drama - 1857 - 424 pages
...voyage I went about, till I had got the mine In mine own possession. Rom. You are dark to me yet. * TJte chiefest action for a man of great spirit Is, never to be out of action] Mr. Collier (Preface to Coleridge's Seven Lectures, &c., p. xcvi) maintains that here the right reading... | |
 | Jesse Clement - Biography & Autobiography - 1869 - 490 pages
...sentiments quaintly uttered by the old dramatic poet, Webster, are these: The chiefest action of a man of spirit Is, never to be out of action ; we should think The soul was never to be put into the body, Which has so many rare and curious pieces Of mathematical motion, to stand... | |
 | John Webster, Alexander Dyce - 1877 - 424 pages
...Have but exchang'd their virtues at dear rate For other vices. Лот. О, ту lord, lie not idle : The chiefest action for a man of great spirit Is, never to be out of action.* We should thiuk The soul was never put into the body, Which has so many rare and curious pieces Of mathematical... | |
 | American poetry - 1886 - 552 pages
...can lift his head proudly to meet the noblest among men. HONORABLE EMPLOYMENT. MY lord, lie not idle: The chiefest action for a man of great spirit Is never to be out of action. We shoufd think; The soul was never put into the body, Which has so many rare and curious pieces Of mathematical... | |
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