 | 1872 - 556 σελίδες
...many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed that God would give him strength ; for greatness he could not want. Neither could I condole in a word or syllable...harm to virtue, but rather help to make it manifest. [ABRAHAM COVVLEY. 1618 — 1667.} CHARACTER OF OLIVER CROMWELL. WHAT can be more extraordinary than... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1875 - 558 σελίδες
...many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed, that God would give him strength ; for greatness he could not want. Neither could I condole in a word or syllable...harm to virtue, but rather help to make it manifest. LXXXI. De Corruptela Morum. — There cannot be one colour of the mind, another of the wit. If the... | |
 | James Mason - 1875 - 674 σελίδες
...many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed that God would give him strength ; for greatness he could not want. Neither could I condole in a word or syllable...harm to virtue, but rather help to make it manifest.' JOHN SELDEN. The seventeenth century was rich in great lawyers ; but few could take precedence of John... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 σελίδες
...many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed that God would give him strength ; for greatness he could phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment,...pretty feminine phrases, which the men condescendi The word " Discovery " is used, in the sense applied to it by Ben Jonson, in John Earle's " Microcosmographie... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1877 - 464 σελίδες
...many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed that God would give him strength; for greatness he could not want. Neither could I condole in a word or syllable...harm to virtue, but rather help to make it manifest. 1 Horace, de Arte Poetica, 346 (slightly altered). Jonson's own translation is: * with honour [to]... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1883 - 862 σελίδες
...many ages. In his adversity, I ever prayed that God would give him strength, for greatness he 10 could not want. Neither could I condole in a word or syllable...harm to virtue, but rather help to make it manifest." ' In the dedication of his Essays to the Duke of Buckingham, Bacon uses this expression : ' I do conceive... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer.) - 1879 - 256 σελίδες
...many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed that God would give him strength; for greatness he could not want. Neither could I condole in a word or syllable...harm to virtue, but rather help to make it manifest.' JOHN SELDEN. The seventeenth century was rich in great lawyers, but few could take precedence of John... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson - 1879 - 844 σελίδες
...many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed that God would give him strength, for greatness he could not want. Neither could I condole, in a word or syllable...harm to virtue, but rather help to make it manifest." — G. w This answer is an acknowledgment of the following unintelligible piece of doggerel, here inserted,... | |
 | Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 σελίδες
...many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed that God would give him strength ; for greatness he could not want. Neither could I condole in a word or syllable...harm to virtue, but rather help to make it manifest. Timber ; or, Diteooeria mode upon Men and Matter. Works, p. 749. Poetry is a speaking picture, and... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1882 - 526 σελίδες
...ages ;_in his adversity I ever prayed that God would give him strength, — for greatness he would not want ; neither could I condole in a word or syllable...harm to virtue, but rather help to make it manifest." At home his popularity was due, I think, more to his eloquence as a speaker, and his repute as a man... | |
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But I have and do reverence him for the greatness that was only proper to himself, in that he seemed to me ever, by his work, one of the greatest men, and most worthy of admiration, that had been in many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed that God would... 
