 | 1803 - 502 Seiten
...and holy, Exalted, rais'd, refin'd ! EPIGRAMS. How seldom, friend ! a good great man inherits Honour or wealth with all his worth and pains! It sounds,...spirits, If any man obtain that, which he merits, Or any merits that, which he obtains. REPLY TO THE ABOVE. FOR shame, dear friend, renounce this can ting strain.'... | |
 | 1803 - 508 Seiten
...and holy, Exalted, rais'd, rerin'd ! EPIGRAMS. How seldom, friend I a good great man inherits Honour or wealth with all his worth and pains! It sounds,...the land of spirits, If any man obtain that, which be merits, Or any merits that, which he obtains. REPLY TO THE ABOVE. FOR shame, dear friend, renounce... | |
 | 1803 - 520 Seiten
...EPIGRAMS. How seldom, friend ! a good great man inherits Honour or wealth with all his worth and painsj It sounds, like stories from the land of spirits, If any man obtain that, which he merits, Or any merits that, which he obtains. REPLY TO THE ABOVE. FOR shame, dear friend, renounce this canting strain... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1812 - 466 Seiten
..."words, Fortune and Fools. How. seldom Friend ! a good great man inherits Honour or wealth with ail his worth and pains! It sounds, like stories from...which he merits, Or any merit that which he obtains. REPLY. For shame, dear Friend ! renounce this canting strain ! What would'st thou have a good great... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1818 - 390 Seiten
...the proverb is current by a misuse, or a catachresis at least, of both the words, fortune and fools. How seldom friend ! a good great man inherits Honor...which he merits, Or any merit that which he obtains. REPLY. For shame, dear friend ! renounce this canting strain What would'st thou have a good great man... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1848 - 590 Seiten
...good, great man inherits Honor or wealth, with all his worth and pains: It sounds like stories from a land of spirits, If any man obtain that which he merits, Or any merit that which he obtains. In view o'f the exalted virtues and piety of Fenelon, concerning whom it is justly said that there... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1835 - 742 Seiten
...of the criticism. — ED. AA 4 360 COMPLAINT. How seldom, friend I a good great man inherits Honour or wealth with all his worth and pains ! It sounds...which he merits, Or any merit that which he obtains. REPROOF. FOR shame, dear friend ! renounce this canting strain ! What would'st thou have a good great... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1835 - 598 Seiten
...all other such mischances : — ' COMPLAINT. ' How seldom, friend, a good great man inherits Honour or wealth with all his worth and pains ! It sounds...which he merits, Or any merit that which he obtains. ' REPROOF. ' For shame, dear friend ! renounce this canting strain! What wouldst thou have a good great... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1835 - 410 Seiten
...seldom, friend ! a good great man Inherits. Honour or wealth with all his worth and pains ! , * s. s ' 's It sounds like stories from the land of spirits, If any man obtain that which he merits, t Or any merit that which he obtains. REPROOF. FOR shame, dear friend ! renounce this canting strain... | |
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How seldom friend! a good great man inherits Honor or wealth with all his worth and pains! It sounds, like stories from the land of spirits, If any man obtain that which he merits, Or any merit that which he obtains. 
