 | Half hours - 1847 - 616 pages
...part which I here set down (if a very little were corrected), I should hardly now be much ashamed. IK. This only grant me, that my means may lie Too low...too high, Some honour I would have, Not from great deeds, but good alone ; Th' unknown are better than ill known. Rumour can ope' the grave : Acquaintance... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...this part which I here set down (if avery little were corrected), I should hardly now be much ashamed. live till morning, I'll visit you : if not, Faustus...is gone to hell. Schulars. Faustus, farewell. FAUS hare, Not from great deeds, but good alone ; Th* unknown are better than ill-known. Rumour can ope... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 pages
...which I here set down (if a very little were corrected), I should hardly now be much ashamed, 1 his j k l m n P P % deeds, but good alone ; Th' unknown are better than ill-known. Rumour can ope the grave : Acquaintance... | |
 | Robert Tyas - 1851 - 250 pages
...we could entirely sympathise with the language of Cowley, when he thus writes " Of Myself :" — " This only grant me, that my means may lie Too low...too high ; Some honour I would have, Not from great deeds, but good alone ; The unknown are better than ill known — Rumour can ope the grave. Acquaintance... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 pages
...part which I here set down (if a very little were corrected), I should hardly now be much ashamed. This only grant me, that my means may lie Too low...too high. Some honour I would have, Not from great deeds, but good alone ; Th' unknown are better than ill-known. Rumour can ope the grave: Acquaintance... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 pages
...part which I have set down (if a very little were corrected) I should hardly now be much, ashamed: " This only grant me, that my means may lie, Too low for envy, for contempt too high. Some honor I would have, Not from great deeds, hut good alone; The unknown are hetter than ill known; Rumor... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 344 pages
...part which I have set down (if a very little were corrected) I should hardly now be much ashamed : " This only grant me, that my means may lie, Too low...too high. Some honour I would have, Not from great deeds, but good alone ; The unknown are better than ill known ; Rumour can ope the grave. Acquaintance... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 588 pages
...part which I have set down (if a very little were corrected) I should hardly now be much ashamed : " This only grant me, that my means may lie, Too low for envy, for contempt too high. Sume honor I would have, Not from great deeds, but good alone ; The unknown are better than ill known;... | |
 | 1852 - 874 pages
...other sprite, T:n Mt attempt'st not men to fright, Nor appear'st but in the light, OF MYSELF. Tuts ither roll'd Diurnal, or this less voliibil Earth, By shorter flight to the east, honor I would have, Not from great deeds, but good alone ; Th' unknown are better than ill known :... | |
 | 1854 - 456 pages
...surer blow Thus Switzerland again was free ; Thus death made way for liberty ! ON MYSELF. — Oneley. THIS only grant me, that my means may lie Too low for envy, for contempt too high. Some honor I would have, Not from great deeds, but good alone ; The unknown are better than ill known ;... | |
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This only grant me, that my means may lie Too low for envy, for contempt too high. 
