 | 1795 - 432 σελίδες
...ancestors enlarge, Produce their debt instead of their discharge. YOUNG. , Satires, sat. I. WE TIE I so tall to reach the pole, Or grasp the ocean with my span, I must be measur'd by my soul; The mind's the standard of the man. WATTS. Lyric Poems,part it. WHAT tho' no gaudy... | |
 | Chaplet - 1805 - 238 σελίδες
...Croesus himself can never know ; His true dimensions and his weight Are far inferior to their show. Were I so tall to reach the pole, Or grasp the ocean with my span, I must be measur'd by my soul : The mind'a the standard of the man. HAPPINESS. The midnight moon serenely smiles... | |
 | Poetry - 1806 - 192 σελίδες
...all his meadows roll, He 's but a wretch with all his lands That wears a narrow soul. . „ " ' 'i Were I so tall to reach the pole, Or grasp the ocean...The mind 's the standard of the man ! •* -WATTS. 32 The Old Man's Comforts. THE OLD MAN'S COMFORTS, AND HOWHE GAINED THEM. *' You are old, father William,"... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1807 - 472 σελίδες
...Croesus himself can never know ; His true dimensions, and his weight Are far inferior to their show. Were I so tall to reach the pole, Or grasp the ocean...with my span, I must be measured by my soul : The mind's the standard of the man. The Ant, or Emmet. THESE Emmets, how little they are in our eyes !... | |
 | Isaac Watts - 1807 - 410 σελίδες
...Crocuis himself can never know ; His true dimensions and his weight Are tar inferior to their show. Were I so tall to reach the pole, Or grasp the ocean with my span, I must l'e measur'd by my soul : The mind's the standard of the man. TO SAR1SSA. AN EPISTLE. BEAR up, Sarissa,... | |
 | Walter Wilson - 1808 - 584 σελίδες
...Lyric Poems, which produced a silent tdmira.tion : " Were I so tall to reach the pole, . " Or mete the ocean with my span, " I must be measured by my soul : " The mind's the standard of the mm." HOBS LYRICS, Falte Grtatneu. ' BURY-STREtT, ST. MARY AXE. Independent.... | |
 | John Sabine - 1810 - 308 σελίδες
...sands Through.all his meadows roll, He'* but a wretch with all his lands That wears a narrow soul. Were I so tall to reach the pole, Or grasp the ocean...with my span, I must be measured by my soul : The mind's the standard of the man ! WATTS. Homer. „ . BE Homer's works your study and delight, Read... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 556 σελίδες
...Cro-sus himself can never know; His true dimensions and his weight Are fer inférieur to their show. Were I so tall to reach the Pole, Or grasp the ocean with my span, I must be measur'd by my soul : The miud!s the standard of the man. TO SARISSA. AN EPISTLE. BEAR up, Sarissa,... | |
 | Isaac Watts - 1813 - 574 σελίδες
...Croesus himself can never know ; His true dimensions and his weight Are far inferior to their show. Were I so tall to reach the pole, Or grasp the ocean with my span, T must be measur'dby my soul : The miud'sthc standard of the man. To SARISSA. AH Epistle. BEAR upjSarissa.thro'the... | |
 | 1818 - 596 σελίδες
...to Gass ! DR. WATTS Being looked upon .•.;•' 'i contempt for bit liuit Body, t fiake atJoUviri: Were I so tall to reach the pole, Or grasp the ocean with a span, I would be measured by my soul — Tne mind's tlie standard of the man. Flesh is the vilast,... | |
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Were I so tall to reach the pole, Or grasp the ocean with my span, I must be measured by my soul : The mind's the standard of the man. 
