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" 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. "
The New Road to Ruin: A Novel - Page 180
by Lady Catherine Pollock Manners Stepney - 1833 - 891 pages
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the ..., Volume 15

William Shakespeare - 1813 - 500 pages
...Johnson's interpretation appears to me to be the true one, ANNE. So much the mord Must pity drop upon her. 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. OLD L. Our content Is our best having.1...
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The dramatic works of William Shakspeare, Volume 5

William Shakespeare - 1813 - 490 pages
...OldL. Alas, poor lady ! She's a stranger now again. Anne. So much the more Must pity drop upon her. 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. Old L. Our content Is our best having. Atutf....
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The dramatic works of William Shakspeare. Whittingham's ed, Volume 5

William Shakespeare - 1814 - 520 pages
...OldL. Alas, poor lady ! She's a stranger now again. Anne. So much the more Must pity drop upon her. 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. Old L. Our content Is our best having. Anne....
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Elegant extracts in poetry, Volume 2

Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...That when the greatest stroke of fortune falls, Will bless a king. The Blessings of a low Station. Tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perk'd up in a glist'ring grief, And wear a golden sorrow. Queen Catharine't Speech to her Husband....
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The Family Shakspeare: In Ten Volumes; in which Nothing is Added ..., Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1818 - 368 pages
...Old L. Alas, poor lady ! She's a stranger now again. Anne. So much the more Must pity drop upon her. 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. Old L. Our content IK our best having. 7...
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The Plays of Shakspeare, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1819 - 646 pages
...Old L. Alas, poor lady ! She's a stranger now again. Anne. So much the more Must pity drop upon her. 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. Old L. Our content Is our best having. Anne....
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The Edinburgh magazine, and literary miscellany, a new series of ..., Volume 5

1819 - 610 pages
...conversation between Anne Bullen and the old lady, where the former utters tliat often-quoted sentence, 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. Act I. sc. I. of Greene's History, in which...
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The Poetical Works of Robert Anderson, Author of "Cumberland ..., Volume 2

Robert Anderson - Cumberland (England) - 1820 - 308 pages
...save;, And with his babe, the Maniac seeks Wild flow'rs, to deck Louisa's grave. ODE TO POVERTY. " "Tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers, in content, Than to be perk'd up in a gliU'ring grief, And wear a golden sorrow." " The learn'd is happy, nature to explore...
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The Poetical Works of Robert Anderson: Author of "Cumberland ..., Volume 2

Robert Anderson, Thomas Sanderson - 1820 - 292 pages
...save i And with his babe, the Maniac seeks Wild flow'rs, to deck Louisa's grave. ODE TO POVERTY. " 'Tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers, in content, Than to be perk'd up in a glitt'ring grief, And wear a golden sorrow." SIIAKSPEARE. " The learn'd is happy, nature...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Volume 19

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 518 pages
...L. Alas, poor lady ! She's a stranger now again 9 ? ANNE. So much the more Must pity drop upon her. 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. OLD L. Our content Is our best having*....
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