 | Charles Jacob Sembower - 1911 - 144 pages
...if poor, Great, feared ; fair, tempted ; high, still envied more ; I have wished all, but now I wish for neither ; Great, high, rich, wise, nor fair, poor I'll be rather." With these lines may be compared the following stanzas of Cotton's " Contentation. " The two passages... | |
 | John Donne - English poetry - 1912 - 516 pages
...envied more : I have wifh'd all, but now I wim for neither, Great, high, rich, wife, nor fair, poor I'l be rather. Would the world now adopt me for her heir, Would beauties Queen entitle me the Fair, 30 Fame fpeak me fortune's Minion, could I vie Angels with India,... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, John William Cunliffe, Ashley Horace Thorndike, Harry Morgan Ayres, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer - Literature - 1917 - 816 pages
...scorned if poor; Great, feared; fair, tempted; high, still envied more: I have wished all, but now I wish for neither, Great, high, rich, wise, nor fair; poor...fortune's minion ; could I vie Angels* with India; with a speaking eye Command bare heads, bowed knees, strike justice dumb As well as blind and lame ; or give... | |
 | Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson - English poetry - 1921 - 316 pages
...be rather. Would the world now adopt me for her heir, Would beauties Queen entitle me the Fair, 30 Fame speak me fortune's Minion, could I vie Angels with India, with a speaking eye Command bare heads, bow'd knees, strike Justice dumb As wel as blind and lame, or give... | |
 | Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson - Poetry - 1921 - 316 pages
...envied more : I have wish'd all, but now I wish for neither, Great, high, rich, wise, nor fair, poor I'l be rather. Would the world now adopt me for her heir, Would beauties Queen entitle me the Fair, Fame speak me fortune's Minion, could I vie Angels with India,... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - Fishing - 1925 - 502 pages
...more : I have wished all ; but now I wish for neither ; Great, High, Rich, Wise, nor Fair ; Poor I 'll be rather. "Would the World now adopt me for her heir,...minion ; — could I vie Angels with India ; with a speaking eye Command bare heads, bowed knees, strike justice dumb As well as blind and lame ; or give... | |
 | Izaak Walton - Fishing - 1928 - 370 pages
...temfited; high, still envy'd more. I have wish'd all; but now I wish for neither, Great, high, rich, ioise, nor fair ; poor I'll be rather. Would the world now...heir; Would beauty's queen entitle me the fair ; Fame sfieak me fortune's minion; could I vie Angels with India, with a sfieaking eye Command bare heads,... | |
 | Izaak Walton - Fishing - 1653 - 284 pages
...jempted;high,ftilenvi'dmore Ihave wifli'd alljout now 1 mijhfer neither \ Great faghjichjvtfejior f air, poor f I be rather Would the world now adopt me for her heir , Would 'beauties gueen entitle me the Fair^ Famefpfak me fortunes Minion, could 1 viz Angelfw* India, n»th... | |
 | George Sampson - Literature - 1931 - 264 pages
...'d if poor : Great fear'd: fair tempted: high still envy'd more: I have wish'd all ; but now I wish for neither, Great, high, rich, wise, nor fair: poor...Fortune's Minion : could I vie Angels with India, with a speaking eye Command bare heads, bow'd knees, strike justice dumb, As well as blind and lame, or give... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1863 - 584 pages
...if poor ; Great feared ; fair tempted ; high still envy'd more ! I have wished all, but now I wish for neither ; Great, high, rich, wise, nor fair ; poor I'll be rather. ' The reader may compare these lines with a Farewell to Town, published in 1555, by NICHOLAS BRETON,... | |
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I'll be rather. Would the world now adopt me for her heir, Would beauty's queen entitle me " the fair," Fame speak me fortune's minion, could I vie Angels... 
