| Robert Plumer Ward - 1839 - 414 pages
...his seeming prosperity, may be made a question. CHAPTER XVI. UNEQUAL FRIENDSHIPS. " Verily, I swear 'tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers, in content, Than to be perk'd up in a glittering grief, And wear a golden sorrow." Henry IT is an old and just observation, that unequal... | |
| Mary Minerva Barrows - Cheerfulness - 1905 - 208 pages
...delight. Philip Henry Savage. Without simplicity no human performance can arrive to perfection. Swift. Tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief And wear a golden sorrow. Shakespeare. In its dreams, man's ambition embraces vast... | |
| Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1905 - 770 pages
...What beautiful expression he gives to the trite observation that contentment is better than riches ! "Tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perk'd up in glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow." What clear expression he gives to the indistinct feeling... | |
| Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - English literature - 1906 - 764 pages
...What beautiful expression he gives to the trite observation that contentment is better than riches ! "Tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perk'd up in glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow." What clear expression he gives to the indistinct feeling... | |
| Simeon Singer - Children's sermons - 1908 - 342 pages
...the poet rise spontaneously to our lips, " Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown " ? And, again, 'Tis better to be lowly born. And range with humble livers in content. Than to be perked up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow. That woman was, indeed, a " great woman,"... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1908 - 204 pages
...She 'sa stranger now again. Anne. So much the more Must pity drop upon her. Verily, I swear, 't is better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perked up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow. Old L. Our content Is our best having. Anne.... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1908 - 206 pages
...She 'sa stranger now again. Anne. So much the more Must pity drop upon her. Verily, I swear, 't is better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perked up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow. Old L. Our content Is our best having. Anne.... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1909 - 228 pages
...misery Outlives in certain pomp, is crown'd before. Timon of Athens. Act IV, Sc. 3. VERILY, I swear, 'tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow. Our content Is our best having. Henry yill. Act II, Sc.... | |
| Emile Souvestre - French fiction - 1910 - 330 pages
...they dazzle the soul, both are oftenest, as Madame de Stael says, but un deuil falatant de bonheurl* * 'Tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow. Henry VIII., Act II., Scene 3.] CHAPTER VIII MISANTHROPY... | |
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