 HOW happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill ! Whose passions not his masters are; Whose soul is still prepared for death, Untied unto the world by care Of public...  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 3091839Full view - About this book
 | Jonathan Peele Dabney - 1821 - 307 pages
...of time. 183. LM WOTTON. A happy life, 1 How happy is he born and taught, Who serveth not another's will ; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth, his utmost skill ! 2 Whose passions not his masters are, Whose soul is still prepar'd for death, Unty'd to this vain... | |
 | 1841
...OF A HAPPY LIFE. BY SIB, HENRY WOTTON. How happy is he born and taught, That serveth not another's will, Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple...are, Whose soul is still prepared for death ; Untied vinto the world by care Of public fame, or private breath : Who hath his life from rumours freed, Whose... | |
 | 1822
...That serveth not another's will : Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his highest skill. Whose passions not his masters are ; Whose soul is still prepared for death ; Not ty'd unto the world with cure Of Princes' ear, or vulgar breath. Who hath his life from rumours... | |
 | David Pickering - 1822 - 420 pages
...near. Doddridge. 201. LM A Happy Life. 1 How happy is he born and taught, Who eerveth not another's will ; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill ! 2 Whose passions not his masters are, Whose soul is still prepar'd for death, Untied to this vain... | |
 | Izaak Walton, John Hawkins - 1822 - 383 pages
...sense, and abated the energy of them : How happy is he born, or taught, That serveth not another's will ! Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill ; prefixed to Milton's Comus. (2) This treatise of Sir Henry's is, undoubtedly, the best on the subject... | |
 | Izaak Walton, John Hawkins - 1822 - 383 pages
...masters are ; Whose soul is still preparM fur death ; Unty'd unto the world, with care Of public famt, or private breath; Who envies none that chance doth raise, Nor vice : who never understood How deepest wounds are given — by praise ; Nor, rules of state, but rules... | |
 | David Pickering - 1822 - 420 pages
...fear, In ev'ry scene of life and death Your helper will be near. Dodijridge. 201. LM A Happy Life. Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill ! 2 Whose passions not his masters are, Whose soul is still prepar'd for death, Untied to this vain... | |
 | West Church (Boston, Mass.) - 1823 - 360 pages
...scorner wise. HYMN CCXVIII. LM A happy life. 1 How happy is he born and taught, Who serveth not another's will ; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill ! 2 Whose passions not his masters are, Whose soul is still prepar'd for death, Untied to this vain... | |
 | 1824 - 420 pages
...serveth not another's will ; Whose armour is his honest thought^ And simple truth his utmost skill ! 2 Whose passions not his masters are, Whose soul is still prepared for death, Untied to this vain world by care Of public fame, or private breath : 3 Who hath his life from rumours freed,... | |
 | Henry Devereux Sewall - 1824 - 420 pages
...near. DoddniJge. 210. LM A Happy Life, 1 How happy is he born and taught, Who serveth not another's will ; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill ! 2 Whose passions not his masters are, Whose eoul is still prepared for death, Untied to this vain... | |
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