 | George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1892 - 572 pages
...ignorance on these may light, Which, when it sounds at best, but echoes right ; Or blind affection, which doth ne'er advance The truth, but gropes, and...all by chance ; Or crafty malice might pretend this praise, And think to ruin, where it seemed to raise. . . . But thou art proof against them, and, indeed,... | |
 | Edward Dowden - 1893 - 160 pages
...ignorance on these may light, Which, when it sounds at best, but echoes right; Or blind affection, which doth ne'er advance The truth, but gropes, and...all by chance; Or crafty malice might pretend this praise, And think to ruin where it seeni'd to raise: But thou art proof against them; and, indeed,... | |
 | Lady Strachey (Jane Maria) - English poetry - 1894 - 378 pages
...silliest ignorance on these may light, Which when it sounds at best, but echoes right; Or blind affection, which doth ne'er advance The truth, but gropes, and...all by chance; Or crafty malice might pretend this praise, And think to ruin, where it seem'd to raise. But thou art proof against them, and, indeed,... | |
 | Anthologies - 1888 - 438 pages
...it sounds at test, but eccho's right ; Or blinde Affection, which doth ne're advance The Truth, tut gropes, and urgeth all by chance ; Or crafty Malice, might pretend this praise, And thinke to ruine, where it seenfd to raise. These are, as some infamous Baud, or Whore,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1895 - 530 pages
...ignorance on these may light, Which, when it sounds at best, but echoes right; Or blind affection, which doth ne'er advance The truth, but gropes, and...all by chance ; Or crafty malice might pretend this praise, And think to ruin where it seemed to raise. These are, as some infamous bawd or whore Should... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1896 - 516 pages
...ignorance on these may light, Which, when it sounds at best, but echoes right ; Or blind affection, which doth ne'er advance The truth, but gropes, and...all by chance ; Or crafty malice might pretend this praise, And think to ruin where it seemed to raise. These are, as some infdmous bawd or whore Should... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1896 - 448 pages
...ignorance on these may light, Which, when it sounds at best, but echoes right; Or blind affection, which doth ne'er advance The truth, but gropes, and...all by chance; Or crafty malice might pretend this praise, And think to ruin, where it seemed to raise. These are, as some infamous bawd or whore Should... | |
 | James Walter - 1896 - 444 pages
...ignorance on these may light, Which, when it sounds at best, but echoes right ; Or blind affection, which doth ne'er advance The truth, but gropes, and...all by chance ; Or crafty malice might pretend this praise, And think to ruin, where it seem'd to raise. These are, as some infamous bawd Should praise... | |
 | William Roberts - Book verse - 1896 - 262 pages
...may light, Which, when it sounds at best, but eccho's right ; Or blinde Affection, which doth ne're advance The truth, but gropes, and urgeth all by chance ; Or crafty Malice, might pretend this praise, These are, as some infamous baud, or whore, Should praise a Matron. What could hurt her more... | |
 | William Roberts - Book verse - 1896 - 264 pages
...may light, Which, when it sounds at best, but eccho's right ; Or blinde Affection, which doth ne're advance The truth, but gropes, and urgeth all by chance ; Or crafty Malice, might pretend this praise, These are, as some infamous baud, or whore, Should praise a Matron. What could hurt her more... | |
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Or blind affection, which doth ne'er advance The truth, but gropes, and urgeth all by chance; Or crafty malice might pretend this praise, And think to ruin, where it seemed to raise. 
