| 1834 - 724 pages
...Potentates reply, Give Potentates the lie. Tell Men of high condition, That rule affairs of State, Their purpose is ambition, Their practice only hate....the lie. Tell Zeal it lacks devotion, Tell Love it ii but lust, Tell Time it is but motion, Tell Flesh it is but dust. And wish them not reply, For thou... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - 1836 - 390 pages
...purpose is ambition, Their praetise onely hate ; And if they once reply, Then give them all the lye. Tell them that brave it most, They beg for more by...Seek nothing but commending ; And if they make reply, Spare not to give the lye. Tell zeale, it lacks devotion ; Tell love, it is but lust ; Tell time, it... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - 1836 - 336 pages
...purpose is ambition, Thcir praetise onely hate ; And if they once reply, Then give them all the lye. Tell them that brave it most, They beg for more by spending, Who in thcir greatest cost Seek nothing but commending ; And if they make reply, Spare not to give the lye.... | |
| Cynosure - 1837 - 272 pages
...; If Potentates reply, Give Potentates the lie. Tell Men of high condition, That manage the estate, Their purpose is ambition, Their practice only hate...give them all the lie. Tell them that brave it most, Like nothing bat commending : And if they make reply, Then tell them all they lie. Tell Zeal it wants... | |
| 1838 - 938 pages
...potentates reply, Give potentates the lie. " Tell men of high condition That rule affairs of state, Their purpose is ambition, Their practice only hate...spending, Who in their greatest cost Seek nothing hut commending ; And if they make reply,' Then give them all the lie. " Tell arts they have no soundness,... | |
| 1838 - 876 pages
...reply, «ve potentates the lie. ' Tell men of high condition That rule affairs of state, Their'purpose is ambition, Their practice only hate : And if they...that brave it most, They beg for more by spending, "ho in their greatest cost Seek nothing but commending ; And if they make reply, Then gire them all... | |
| 508 pages
...?" PUBLIC AMÜSEMENTS OF THE METROPOLIS. " Tell men of high condition, That rule affairs of state, Their purpose is ambition, Their practice only hate...they once reply, Then give them all the lie." " Tell wit how much it wrangles In tickle points of niceness, Tell wisdom she entangles Herself in over wiseness... | |
| John William Carleton - 1846 - 508 pages
....'" PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS OF THE METROPOLIS. " Tell men of high condition, That role affairs of state, Their purpose is ambition, Their practice only hate...they once reply, Then give them all the lie." " Tell wit how much it wrangles In tickle points of niceness, Tell wisdom she entangles Herself in over wiseness... | |
| Ellen Pickering - 1839 - 944 pages
...potentates reply, Give potentates the lye. Tell men of high condition, That rule affairs of state, Their purpose is ambition, Their practice only hate : And if they once reply, Then give them all the lye. SIR WALTER KALEIGH. • 5 WHEN the sun rose on the third of August 1648, no cloud shadowed its... | |
| Ellen Pickering - 1839 - 324 pages
...potentates reply, Give potentates the lye. Tell men of high condition, That rule affairs of state, Their purpose is ambition, Their practice only hate : And if they once reply, Then give them all the lye. SIR WALTER RALEIGH. WHEN the sun rose on the third of August 1643, no cloud shadowed its splendour,... | |
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