 | 1803 - 502 Seiten
...cruel, base, and blind ; But thou, methinks, art pure and holy, Exalted, rais'd, refin'd ! EPIGRAMS. How seldom, friend ! a good great man inherits Honour...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
...; But thou, methinks, art pure and holy, Exalted, rais'd, rerin'd ! EPIGRAMS. How seldom, friend I a good great man inherits Honour or wealth with all...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
...cruel, base, and blind; But thou, methinks, art pure and holy, Exalted, rais'd, refin'd ! 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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1812 - 466 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 Honour or wealth with ail his worth and pains! It sounds, like stories from the land of spirits, If any man obtain that which... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1818 - 390 Seiten
...at least, of both the words, fortune and fools. How seldom friend ! a good great man inherits Honor or wealth with all his worth and pains ! It sounds,...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 obtaiu... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1848 - 590 Seiten
...somewhat misanthropic quartette of Coleridge : — How seldom, friend, a 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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1835 - 386 Seiten
...! " And the poet bade me preserve the verses for the sake of the criticism. — ED. AA 4 COMPLAINT. How seldom, friend ! a good great man inherits Honour...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
...radical. Hear the dying poet's own comment on this and all other such mischances : — ' COMPLAINT. ' How seldom, friend, a good great man inherits Honour...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 - 372 Seiten
...motions making little speed, And to deform and kill the things whereon we feed. COMPLAINT. How sriJoin, friend ! a good great man inherits Honour or wealth...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 - 742 Seiten
...preserve the verses for the sake of the criticism. — ED. AA 4 360 COMPLAINT. How seldom, friend I a good great man inherits Honour or wealth with all...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... | |
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Honour 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. 
