 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 602 pages
...world the lie. Go, tell the court it glows, And shines like rotten wood; Go, tell the church it shows What's good, and doth no good : If church and court reply, Then give them both the lie. Tell potentates, they live Acting by others' actions, Not loved unless they give, Not strong but... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 pages
...the lie. Go tell the Court it glows And shines like rotten wood; Go tell the Church it shows Men's good, and doth no good: If Church and Court reply, Then give them both the lie. Tell potentates they live Acting by others' actions, Not loved unless they give, Not strong but... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 pages
...the court it glows, And shines like rotten wood; Go, tell the church it shows What's good, and dotb no good : If church and court reply, Then give them both the lie. Tell potentates, they live Acting by others' actions, Not loved unless they give, Not strong but... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - 1852 - 458 pages
...The Church. " Go, tell the court it glows And shines like rotten wood ; Go, tell the church it shows What's good, and doth no good : If church and court reply, Then give them both the lie. " Tell potentates, they lire Acting by others' actions, Not lov'd unless they give, Not strong... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 344 pages
...the lie. Go tell the Court it glows And shines like rotten wood ; Go tell the Church it shows Men's good, and doth no good : If Church and Court reply, Then give them both the lie. Tell potentates they live Acting by others' actions, Not loved unless they give, Not strong but... | |
 | 1852 - 838 pages
...lie. " Go tell the court it glows, And shines like rotten wood ; Go tell the church it shows Men^K good, and doth no good : If church and court reply, Then give them both the lie." And so it goes on through thirteen wrangling, jangling verses. In some of them this virtuous... | |
 | F. S., Frederick Saunders - 1853 - 306 pages
...world the he. Go, tell the Court it glows And shines like soften wood ; Go, tell the Church it sAotoj What's good, and doth no good. If Church and Court reply, Then give them both the lie." 'When on the scaffold, he desired to see the axe ; and feeling the edge of it, said to the sheriff,... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 pages
...BEAUTIFUL POETBY. Go, tell the Court it glows And shines like rotten wood ; Go, tell the Church it shows What's good and doth no good ; If Church and Court reply, Then give them both the lie. Tell potentates they live Acting by others actions, Not loved unless they give, Not strong bat... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks - 1857 - 274 pages
...the lie. " Go, tell the Court it glows And shines like rotten wood — Go, tell the Church it shows What's good and doth no good. If Church and Court reply, Then give them both the lie. " Tell potentates they live Acting by others' actions, Not loved unless they give, Not strong,... | |
 | M E. Hammond - 1858 - 352 pages
...Fair." " For shame, Doctor ! You excuse instead of blaming my folly." She hummed, saucily : — " Goe, tell the court it glowes, And shines like rotten wood...church and court reply, Then give them both the lye.' " " Heaven save the mark ! you remind me of a spider, Florence. The storehouse of tangled lines is... | |
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Say to the court, it glows And shines like rotten wood; Say to the church, it shows What's good, and doth no good: If church and court reply, Then give them both the lie. Tell potentates, they live Acting by others' action; Not loved unless they give,... 
