 My choice is store of gold ; the rich are wise. He that upon his back rich garments wears, Is wise, though on his head grow Midas' ears. Gold is the strength, the sinews of the world, The health, the soul, the beauty most divine, A mask of gold hides...  Gurney Married: A Sequel to Gilbert Burney - Seite 151von Theodore Edward Hook - 1839Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Albert Walker - 1873 - 276 Seiten
...grasp it." He that upon his back rich garments wears Is wise, through on his head grow Midas' ears : Gold is the strength, the sinews of the world, The...deformities ; Gold is heaven's physic, life's restorative. Decker. When wicked men want estates, they are troubled for them ; and when they have estates, they... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 Seiten
...Lie charms resistless ? that all laugh to find Unthinking plainness so o'erspread thy mind. CREECH. Gold is the strength, the sinews of the world ; The...mask of gold hides all deformities ; Gold is heaven's physie, life's restorative. DECKER. Now cursed steel, and more accursed gold, Gave mischief birth,... | |
 | Charles Beebe Turrill - 1876 - 262 Seiten
...here and there winding roads lead to towns nestling among the rolling hills. CHAPTER IX. GOLD MINES. " Gold is the strength, the sinews of the world; The...most divine; A mask of gold hides all deformities." EFORE beginning that part of our journey which leads through the extensive mining district lying all... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 Seiten
...Lie charms resistless ? that all laugh to find Unthinking plainness so o'erspread thy mind. CREECH. Gold is the strength, the sinews of the world ; The...deformities ; Gold is heaven's physic, life's restorative. DECKER. Now cursed steel, and more accursed gold, Gave mischief birth, and made that mischief bold;... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - 1880 - 380 Seiten
...are wise : He that upon his back rich garments wears Is wise, though on his head grow Midas' ears. Gold is the strength, the sinews of the world ; The...deformities ; Gold is heaven's physic, life's restorative ; O, therefore, make me rich ! , John Webster, in reply to a charge that he was long in finishing his... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1881 - 738 Seiten
...thief; Nay, sometimes hangs both thief and true man : What Can it not do, and undo ? Sh. fymb. n. 3 Gold is the strength, the sinews of the world ; The...the soul, the beauty most divine ; A mask of gold bides all deformities ; Gold is heaven's physie, life's restorative. Deklcer. Provide what money, and... | |
 | Christian ethics - 1883 - 296 Seiten
...are wise : He that upon his back rich garments wears, Is wise, though on his head grow Midas' ears : Gold is the strength, the sinews of the world ; The...most divine ; A mask of gold hides all deformities. Let me ask myself, What is the dust of the earth to the fruits of the Spirit ? It may be that if I... | |
 | Ellen Crofts - 1884 - 392 Seiten
...are wise ; He that upon his back rich garments wears Is wise, though on his head grow Midas' ears. Gold is the strength, the sinews of the world, The...deformities ; Gold is heaven's physic, life's restorative ; O therefore make me rich." MARSTON, like Dekker, sought for popular favour by dealing with the horrible... | |
 | Truths - 1885 - 572 Seiten
...— Dekker. HE that upon his back Rich Garments wears, Is wise, though on his head grows Mida' ears : Gold is the strength, the sinews of the world ; The...divine ; A mask of Gold hides all deformities ; Gold is Heav'n's Physic, Life's Restorative. ©oltt. — Johnson. THE lust of Gold succeeds the lust of conquests... | |
 | Thomas Dekker - 1887 - 642 Seiten
...are wise. He that upon his back rich garments wears, Is wise, though on his head grow Midas' ears. Gold is the strength, the sinews of the world, The...deformities ; Gold is Heaven's physic, life's restorative, Oh therefore make me rich : not as the wretch, That only serves lean banquets to his eye, Has gold,... | |
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