 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 σελίδες
...Sacrament. DR. J. DONNE. VIRTUE. Do well and right, and let the world sink. Country Parson. GEORGE HERBERT. a T/u Monrniite Bride. Aclv.Sc. l>. W. COXCREVB. That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our... | |
 | Cornelius Brown - 1881 - 440 σελίδες
...the fair sex by any of its admirers in poetry or in prose. CHAPTER XXI. CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER. For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And though a late, a sure reward succeeds. — Congrtve. |E have brought down Mr. Disraeli's parliamentary career, in the foregoing chapter, to... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1881 - 738 σελίδες
...the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in the dust. J. Shirley, Death's Final Conquest, III. Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And, though a late, a sure reward succeeds. Congreve, Mourning Bride, v. 12. GOOD NATURE— see Forgiveness. 'Tis good-nature only wins the heart... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 σελίδες
...knotted oak.1 'Heaven has no rage, like love to haired turn'd. Nor licll a fury, like a woman scorned." 'For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds; And though a late, a sure reward succeeds." 'If there's delight in love, 'Us when I ece That heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.' 'Reason,... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - 1882 - 926 σελίδες
...bless you ! I have nothing to tell, si q. CANNING — The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Gi in . For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds And though a late, a sure reward succeeds r. CONGREVE — The Mourning Bride. Act V. Sc What is remote and difficult of success are apt to overrate;... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 σελίδες
...Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.1 Act iii. So. 8. For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And though a late, a sure reward succeeds. Act v. Sc. 12. If there 's delight in love, 't is when I see That heart which others bleed for bleed... | |
 | Otis Henry Tiffany - 1883 - 954 σελίδες
...flight ! ( Young. Blessings star forth forever ; but a cnrse Is like a cloud — it passes. (Bailey. For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And though a late, a sure reward succeeds. ( Congrtoe. What is remote and difficult of success we are apt to overrate ; what is really best for... | |
 | James Platt - 1883 - 538 σελίδες
...place." " The great will not regard as poverty the low estate of that man who abides with equity." " For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds ; And though a late, a sure reward succeeds." COXGHEVE. RELIGION•. " Whether we descend to the lowest roots of our own intellectual growth, or... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1883 - 782 σελίδες
...circumstance — There lies the self-denial. 1144 Charles Kingsley : Saint's Tragedy. -A'.'t iv. Sc. 3. Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And, though a late, a sure reward succeeds. 1145 Congrcva: Mourning Bride. Act v. Sc. 12 Foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o'erwhelm them,... | |
 | Walter Besant - 1884 - 324 σελίδες
...the last lines : ' Still in the way of honour persevere, And not from past or present ills despair, For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And, though a late, a sure reward succeeds.' There were others present who enjoyed the play as much as I did, though my lord said that, in his opinion,... | |
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When a man eminently virtuous, a Brutus, a Cato, or a Socrates, finally sinks under the pressure of accumulated misfortune, we are not only led to entertain a more indignant hatred of vice, than if he... 
