 | Charles Mackay - 1857 - 334 pages
...he : Cuckoo ! Cuckoo ! cuckoo ! Oh, word of fear, THE CHARACTER OF A HAPPY LIFE. Sir HEMEY WOTTON. How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's...passions not his masters are, Whose soul is still prepar'd for death, Untied unto the world by care Of public fame or private breath. Who envies none... | |
 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 pages
...bis zeal: Nor number, nor example with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind. How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's...honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill. This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall, Lord of himself, though not of... | |
 | English poetry - 1858 - 396 pages
...Reliquisc Wottonianse, 1651, 12mo ; compared with one or two other copies. 1 How happy is he born or taught, That serveth not another's will; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his highest skill: Whose passions not his masters are; 5 Whose soul is still prepar'd for death; Not ty'd... | |
 | George Gilfillan - Ballads, English - 1858 - 396 pages
...Reliquiae Wottonianse, 1C51, 12mo ; compared with one or two other copies.1 How happy is he born or taught, That serveth not another's will; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his highest skill: Whose passions not his masters are; 5 Whose soul is still prepar'd for death; Not t/d... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - Self-culture - 1858 - 276 pages
...on the Life of Freedom, and say with brave Sir Henry Wotton— " How happy is he bom and taught, Who serveth not another's will, Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his only skill! This man is saved from servile bands Of hope to rise, or fear to fall,— Lord of himself,... | |
 | John Hamilton THOM - 1858 - 662 pages
...high priesthood shall make Earth All hallowed ground. 353. LM 1 How happy is he born and taught, Who serveth not another's will ; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his only skill : 2 Whose passions not his masters are, Whose soul is still prepared for death ; Untied... | |
 | What - 1858 - 218 pages
...— a glittering specimen from his mine of old English lore : ' How happy is he born, or taught, Who serveth not another's will ; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his highest skill. Whose passions not his masters are, "Whose ' ' Pshaw ! I forget the rest.' ' That has... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Readers (Elementary) - 1858 - 348 pages
...there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, " This is my own, my native laud ? " How happy is he born and taught, That serveth not another's will, Whose armor is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill ! Stone walls do not a prison make ;... | |
 | 1858 - 588 pages
...and spontaneous desire to call the attention of any one of our readers who has not yet as one — " Whose armour is his honest thought; And simple truth his utmost skill," E 2 entered his name upon the lists as a combatant for what he conceives to be— truth. Having made... | |
 | English poetry - 1859 - 128 pages
...which thou must leave ere long. SHAKSPEARE. ODE. THE CHARACTER OK A HAPPY LIFE. How happy is he born or taught, That serveth not another's will ; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his highest skill : Whose passions not his masters are ; Whose soul is still prepar'd for death ; Not ty'd... | |
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How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will, Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill! 
