 | 1851 - 604 страници
...to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please ns. * * * * * To all my foes, dear Fortune, send Thy gifts, but never to my friend ; I tamely can endure the first, But this with envy makes me burst." The Maxim has been indeed generally taken, as it was probably... | |
 | François duc de La Rochefoucauld - 1851 - 290 страници
...perhaps your patience movo Let reason and experience prove. * * * * To all my foes dear Fortune send Thy gifts, but never to my friend ; I tamely can endure the first, But this with envy makes me burst." SWIFT, Verses on his own Death. 246. We easily console ourselves... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 страници
...talents Heaven hath hless'd them, Have I not reason to detest them ? To all my foes, dear Fortune, send Thy gifts ; but never to my friend : I tamely can endure the first ; But this with envy makes me hurst. Thus much may serve hy way of proem ; Proceed we therefore... | |
 | 1852 - 874 страници
...talents Heaven hath bless'd 'em, Have I not reason to detest 'em ? To all my foes, dear Fortune, send his soul which breathes in Cato there ; If pensive to the ru first; But this with envy makes me burst. Thus much may serve by way of proem ; Proceed we therefore... | |
 | Matthew Prior - 1853 - 220 страници
...talents Heav'n has bless'd 'em, Have I not reason to detest 'em ? To all my foes, dear Fortune ! send Thy gifts, but never to my friend ; I tamely can endure the first, But this with envy makes me burst. Thus much may serve by way of proem ; Proceed we therefore... | |
 | George Wood - 1855 - 412 страници
...— La Rochefoucauld's Maxims, p. 356. Or, as Dean Swift says : " To all my foes, dear Fortune, send Thy gifts, but never to my friend ; I tamely can endure the first, But this with envy makes me burst.' ' . Versos on his Own Death, " When I speak of such matters,... | |
 | George Wood - 1855 - 408 страници
...— La Rochefoucauld's Maxims, p. 356. Or, as Dean Swift says : " To all my foes, dear Fortune, send Thy gifts, but never to my friend ; I tamely can endure the first, But this with envy makes me burst." Verses on his Own Death. " When I speak of such matters,... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1860 - 362 страници
...talents Heaven hath blest 'em, Have I not reason to detest 'em? To all my foes, dear Fortune, send Thy gifts; but never to my friend: I tamely can endure the first; But this with envy makes me burst. Thus much may serve by way of proem; Proceed we therefore... | |
 | Alexander Falconer Murison - 1875 - 380 страници
...perhaps was the fault of his age, and the last of his language. 7. To all my foes, dear Fortune, send Thy gifts, but never to my friend : I tamely can endure the first, But this with envy makes me burst. 8. That the three angles of a triangle are equal to two right... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 840 страници
...talents Heaven hath bless'd 'em, Have I not reason to detest 'em ? To all my foes, dear Fortune, send e well begu first ; But this with envy makes me burst. Thus much may serve by way of proem ; Proceed wo therefore... | |
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em? To all my foes, dear Fortune, send Thy gifts; but never to my friend: I tamely can endure the first; But this with envy makes me burst. 
