 | William Cullen Bryant - 1884 - 454 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 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 ; Rumor... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1885 - 440 pages
...dignified expression. We quote two or three stanzas, embodying " wishes " which he lived to realize : — " 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... | |
 | W. H. Davenport Adams - 1885 - 434 pages
...three stanzas, embodying " wishes " which he lived to realize :— " This only grant me, that my meana may lie Too low for envy, for contempt 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... | |
 | John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - 1887 - 266 pages
...toiling for the spiritually indispensable ; not daily bread, but the bread of life."— Carlyle. (c) " This only grant me, that my means may lie Too low for envy, for contempt too high." — Cowley. (d) " A man that looks on glass, On it may stay his eye ; Or, if he pleaseth, through it... | |
 | Charles F. Beezley - 1891 - 436 pages
...this 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... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1894 - 376 pages
...is all my choice, my cheer — A mind content, a conscience clear. — JOSHUA SYLVESTER. 19. A WISH. 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 ; Rumor... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1895 - 530 pages
...before. EDITOR. 1 Spectator, no. 63. I. A WISH. [First printed in Poetical Blossomes, 2nd edition.] 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... | |
 | J. H. Lobban - 1896 - 324 pages
...Westminster School when about ten years old. In 1636 he became a scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge. IX. This only grant me, that my means may lie Too...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... | |
 | J. H. Lobban - 1896 - 362 pages
...The stanzas quoted form the conclusion of a poem entitled "A Vote", which appeared in Sylva of 1636. IX. This only grant me, that my means may lie Too...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... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1896 - 520 pages
...Spectator, no. 62. qv*. (5Ju> to lx x cug. t* A WISH, [First printed in Poetical Blossomes, 2nd edition.] 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... | |
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This only grant me, that my means may lie Too low for envy, for contempt too high. 
