 | English poetry - 1873 - 390 pages
...sunshine, and the heartfelt joy, Is virtue's prize : a better would you fix, Then give Humility a coach and six, Justice a conqueror's sword, or Truth a gown, Or public spirit its great cure — a crown. THE DEATH OF HECTOE. THE ILIAD.— BOOK XXII. BY POPE. STERNLY they met. The silence Hector broke ;... | |
 | Hermann Marcus Kottinger - Christianity - 1877 - 334 pages
...sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize : a better would you fix ? Then give humility a coach and six, Justice a conqueror's sword, or truth a gown, Or public spirit its great cure — a crown. — Judges and Senates have been bought for gold ; Esteem and love were never to be sold. — Fortune... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...sunshine, and the heartfelt joy, Is virtue's prize ; a better would you fix ? Then give humility a coach n, The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gather'd now like bleeping flowers Weak, foolish man ! will Heaven reward us there With the same trash mad mortals wish for here ? The... | |
 | William Swinton - English language - 1877 - 278 pages
...neighbors a helping hand. 18. We forgive our fricnds their faults. 19. Then give humility a coach-and-six, Justice a conqueror's sword, or truth a gown, Or public spirit its great cure, a crown.—Pype. 20. He chooses company, but not the squire's.*—Addison. B. [Under VI.-IX., pages 102-105.]... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1878 - 138 pages
...virtue's prize : a better would you fix ? Then give humility a coach and six, 170 Justice a conq'ror's sword, or truth a gown, Or public spirit its great cure, a crown. Weak, foolish man ! will heav'n reward us there With the same trash mad mortals wish for here? The... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1879 - 130 pages
...heartfelt joy, Is virtue's prize. A better would you fix ? Then give humility a coach and six, 170 Justice a conqueror's sword, or truth a gown, Or public spirit its great cure, a crown. Weak, foolish man ! will heaven reward us there With the same trash mad mortals wish for here ? The... | |
 | William Swinton - English language - 1879 - 394 pages
...neighbors a helping hand. 18. We forgive our friends their faults. 19. Then give humility a coach-and-six, Justice a conqueror's sword, or truth a gown, Or public spirit its great cure, a crown.—Pope. 20. He cBooses company, but not the squire's.*—Addison. B. [Under VI.-IX., pages 102-105.]... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 642 pages
...virtue's prize : A better would you fix ? Then give humility a coach and six, Justice a conqu'ror's sword, or truth a gown, Or public spirit its great cure, a crown. Weak, foolish man ! will Heaven reward us there With the same trash mad mortals wish for here ? The... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 636 pages
...virtue's prize : A better would you fix ? Then give humility a coach and six, Justice a conqu'ror's sword, or truth a gown, Or public spirit its great cure, a crown. Weak, foolish man ! will Heaven reward us there With the same trash mad mortals wish for here ? The... | |
 | English essays - 1881 - 578 pages
...sunshine, and the heartfelt joy, Is virtue's prize : A better would you fix, Then give Humility a coach nce guides, Go, measure earth, weigh air, and state the tides ; Instruct the planets in what orb Weak, foolish man ! will Heaven reward us there With the same trash mad mortals wish for here? The... | |
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What nothing earthly gives or can destroy, The soul's calm sun-shine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize; a better would you fix? Then give humility a coach and six, Justice a conqueror's sword, or truth a gown, Or public spirit, its great cure,... 
