 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.  Recollections of a Chaperon - Page 51by Arabella Jane Sullivan, Barbarina Brand (baroness Dacre) - 1833Full view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1827 - 650 pages
...fate was, ere long, to be another illustration — ' Verily, I swear, 'tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be...up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow — I would not be a queen !' — and the maidenly way in which she receives the first favours from... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 804 pages
...woont, For fear of rauiigers and the great hoont, But privily prolling to and fro. Id. Posterait. 1'is better to be lowly bora, And range with humble livers...up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow. Shakspeare. Henry VIII. Czsar's spirit ranging for revenge, With Ate by his side come hot from hell,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 412 pages
...patience, courage, fortitude ; I have no relish of them. Id. Macbeth. Tis better to be lowly horn, And range with humble livers in content. Than to be...up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow. Id. Henry VIII. The touiitss of the bough where the fruit cometh, maketh the fruit greater, and to... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 816 pages
...their wriggle tails, Peor* as a peacock, but nought avails. Spenser. 'Tis belter to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perked up in a glist'ring grief, And wear a golden sorrow. Shakspeare. Henry VIII. If, after all, you think it a disgrace,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 814 pages
...Summer, and the helmets gliitrr brightest in the fairest sunshine. Spenser. Tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content. Than to be perked up in a glittering grief, And wear a golden sorrow. Shahxpeare. All that gluten is not gold. lit. Steel glosses... | |
 | Lady Catherine Pollock Manners Stepney - 1833 - 324 pages
...writer, the way to stem the torrent. He says ; — ' Verily, I swear 'tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be...in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow.' And I have quite profited by many similar remindings from that author." " ' Poverty and genius are... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1833 - 142 pages
...how many of them would say, " I swear' 'tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble dwellers in content, Than to be perked up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow." I am not urging any one to live an indolent, unaspiring, vegetative life. I am only saying, "Covet... | |
 | Arabella Jane Sullivan - 1833 - 212 pages
...Anne Boleyne'a, that I came home and learned (hem by heart — ' I swear 'tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perked up in a glistering «jef And wear a golden Borrow,' If I had but married an honest, true-hearted man, with ardent affections... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1836 - 588 pages
...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...up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow. Old L. Our content Is our best having.4 Anne. By my troth and maidenhead, I would not be a queen. Old... | |
 | Elizabeth Washington Wirt - 1837 - 264 pages
...content ; A crown it is, that seldom kings enjoy Shaks. 'Tis better to be lowly born, And range in humble livers, in content, Than to be perked up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow Honour and shame from no condition rise, Act well your part, there all the honour lies, . Much will... | |
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