 | John Lauris Blake - 1846 - Počet stránok 292
...tempt the distant deep, Nor always timorously creep Along the treacherous shore. He that holds fast the golden mean, And lives contentedly between The...poor, Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door, Imbittering all his state. The tallest pines feel most the power Of wintry blast; the loftiest tower... | |
 | William Peter - 1847 - Počet stránok 562
...tempt the distant deep, Nor always timorously creep Along the treacherous shore. He that holds fast the golden mean, And lives contentedly between The...poor, Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door, Embittering all his state. The tallest pines feel most the power Of wintry blasts ; the loftiest tower... | |
 | William Cowper - 1847 - Počet stránok 556
...tempt the distant deep. Not always timorously creep Along the treacherous shore. He that holds fast the golden mean, And lives contentedly between The...that pinch the poor, Nor plagues that haunt the rich man s door. Imbittering all his state. The tnllest pines feel most the power Of wintry blasts i the... | |
 | 1847 - Počet stránok 526
...perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns. COWPER'S Task. 13. He that holds fast the golden mean, And lives contentedly between The...not the wants that pinch the poor, Nor plagues that haunts the rich man's door, Embittering all his state. COWPER'S Horace. 14. Pleasures, or wrong or... | |
 | 1881 - Počet stránok 846
...neighbors, our greatest ambition is — "To live contentedly between The little and the great ; Feel not the wants that pinch the poor, Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door, Embittering all his state, until He Who notes the sparrow's fall Shall beckon us to that more ' beautiful... | |
 | William Cowper - 1881 - Počet stránok 562
...tempt the distant deep, Nor always timorously creep Along the treacherous shore. He that holds fast the golden mean, And lives contentedly between The little and the great, Veels not the wants that pinch the poor. Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door, Embittering all... | |
 | Samuel Arthur Bent - 1882 - Počet stránok 638
...the aurea mediocritas of Horace : — " He that holds fast the golden mean, t And lives contentediy between The little and the great, Feels not the wants...poor, Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door." Odet, II. 10, 5. Although the phrase, le juste milieu, gave a name to the moderate and pacific policy... | |
 | Charles Elihu Slocum - 1882 - Počet stránok 716
...have . . . . " held the golded mean, And lived contentedly between The little and the great ; Felt not the wants that pinch the poor, Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door. Embittering all his state." The name Slocum has an honorable record in every one of our Country's wars,... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - Počet stránok 942
...thumps npon the back. Young, L'niterial Passion. s Far. How be esteems your merit. He that holds fast the golden mean, And lives contentedly between The...poor, Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door. Translation of Horace. Soot ii. Ode x. But strive still to be a man before your mother.1 Connoisteur.... | |
 | Harriet B. Swineford - 1883 - Počet stránok 302
...of desperate steps. The darkest day, Live till to-morrow, will have passed away. He that holds fast the golden mean, And lives contentedly between The...poor, Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door. Translation of Horace. * ROBERT BURNS. 1759-1796. ROBERT BURNS, although of Scotch birth, is classed... | |
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He that holds fast the golden mean And lives contentedly between The little and the great Feels not the wants that pinch the poor Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door, Imbittering all his state. 
