 | Samuel Butler - 1905 - 356 Seiten
...enough, Thou need'st not brand it with a scoff: Sarcasmes may eclipse thine own, But cannot blur my lost renown : I am not now in Fortune's power, He that is down can fall no lower. The ancient Hero's were illustrious For b'ing benigne, and not blustrous, Against a vanquish'd foe : their swords... | |
 | William Bittle Wells, Lute Pease - 1905 - 674 Seiten
...haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything. I am not now in fortune's power; He that is down, can fall no lower. Affliction is the good man's shining scene; Prosperity conceals his brightest ray; As night to stars,... | |
 | 1906 - 810 Seiten
...that is down need fear no fall,1 He that is low, no pride, BUNYAN, Pilgrim's Progress, II, Stage v 1 1 am not now in Fortune's power, He that is down can fall no lower, — BUTLEE, Hudibrru, I, iii, lines 857, 858 Dragon, — Come not between the dragon and his wrath,... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1909 - 328 Seiten
...through the roughest day.* If things look hopeless, a man may console himself with the reflection that: I am not now in fortune's power, He that is down can fall no lower.** "Hope and fasting," says Jeremy Taylor, "are said to be the two wings of prayer. Fasting is but as... | |
 | Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - 1911 - 784 Seiten
...wit without wealth; Some, wealth without wit — some, nor wit nor wealth. 1781 Chapman : All Fools. I am not now in Fortune's power, He that is down can fall no lower. 1782 Butler : Hitdibras. Pt. i. Canto iii. Line 877 His only solace was, that now His dog-holt fortune... | |
 | John Kelman - 1912 - 338 Seiten
...p. 218. 1 Of. vol. ip 156. the fact that in these same times Butler had written in his Hudibras : ' I am not now in Fortune's power. He that is down can fall no lower.' In spite of Butler's residence near Bedford, there is no proof of any connection between the poets... | |
 | 1913 - 264 Seiten
...Ancient Mariner. I have not quailed to danger's brow When high and happy — need I now? Byron: Oiaour. I am not now in fortune's power: He that is down, can fall no lower. Butler: Hudibras. Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, But cheerly seek how to redress their harms.... | |
 | Karl Pearson - 1914 - 468 Seiten
...out by his legs, he sputtered out halfchoked with mud to his brother Darwin the lines of Hudibras : "I am not now in Fortune's power He that is down can fall no lower." As his mother depicts him for us in the first half-dozen years of his life Francis was a boy of mettle,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 408 Seiten
...SHAKESPEARE. THE HIGH AND THE Low. He thpt is down needs fear no fall. Piff rim's Progress, Part II, BUNYAN. I am not now in fortune's power ; He that is down can fall no lower. Hudibras, Parll. Cant.ai. BUTLER. Their feet through faithless leather met the dirt, And oftener changed... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1925 - 1118 Seiten
...Butler, in " Huaibras," finds a reason for contentment in adversity which is as wise as it is witty : 1 am not now in Fortune's power : He that is down can fall no lower. Part 1., Canto 3. Longfellow finds a refuge in patience and hope : Let us be patient : these severe... | |
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But cannot blur my lost renown : I am not now in Fortune's power, He that is down can fall no lower. The ancient heroes were illustrious For being benign, and not blustrous Against a vanquish'd foe ; their swords Were sharp and trenchant, not their words... 
