 Speak thou, whose thoughts at humble peace repine. Shall Wolsey's wealth, with Wolsey's end be thine ? Or liv'st thou now, with safer pride content, The wisest justice on the banks of Trent...  Satire and Satirists - Страница 45по James Hannay - 1854 - 276 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | Penny readings - 1866 - 264 страници
...rest. Grief aids disease, remembered folly stings, And his last sighs reproach the faith of kings. Speak thou whose thoughts at humble peace repine,...Shall Wolsey's wealth with Wolsey's end be thine ? Or livest thou now, with safer pride content, The wisest justice on the banks of Trent ? For why did Wolsey,... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - 1869 - 498 страници
...thousand sermons; nay, it is itself a fine sermon in rhyme. Let the ambitious ponder these lines : — Speak thou, whose thoughts at humble peace repine,...near the steeps of fate, On weak foundations raise the enormous weight ? Why, but to sink beneath misfortune's blow, With louder ruin to the gulfs below.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1872 - 524 страници
...rest. Grief aids disease, remember'd folly stings, And his last sighs reproach the faith of kings. Speak thou, whose thoughts at humble peace repine,...For why did Wolsey, near the steeps of fate, On weak ioundations raise th' enormous weight ? Why, but to sink beneath misfortune's blow, With louder ruin... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - 1872 - 552 страници
...rest. Grief aids disease, remember'd folly stings, And his last sigbs reproach the faith of kings. I2O Speak thou, whose thoughts at humble peace repine,...Trent? For why did Wolsey near the steeps of fate 125 On weak foundations raise th' enormous weight ? Why, but to sink beneath misfortune's blow, With... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1873 - 782 страници
...whose thoughts at humble peace repine, Shall Wolsey's wealth with Wolsey' в end be thine ? Or livest be the enormous weight ? Why, but to sink beneath misfortune's blow, With louder ruin to the gnlfs below... | |
 | English poetry - 1873 - 390 страници
...rest. Grief aids disease, remembered folly stings, And his last sighs reproach the faith of kings. Speak, thou whose thoughts at humble peace repine,...Shall Wolsey's wealth, with Wolsey's end be thine ? Or livest thou now, with safer pride content, The wisest justice on the banks of Trent ? For why did Wolsey,... | |
 | Charles Greville - 1874 - 404 страници
...simple, unaffected country gentleman, with great personal influence. This is what he is tit for, to be, With safer pride content, The wisest justice on the banks of Trent, and not to assist in settling Europe and making new constitutions. I find on arriving in town that... | |
 | Charles Greville - 1874 - 452 страници
...simple, unaffected country gentleman, with great personal influence. This is what he is fit for, to be, With safer pride content, The wisest justice on the banks of Trent, and not to assist in settling Europe and making new constitutions. I find on arriving in town that... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1876 - 76 страници
...rest; Grief aids disease, remember'd folly stings, And his last sighs reproach the faith of kings. 120 Speak thou whose thoughts at humble peace repine,...Trent? For why did Wolsey, near the steeps of fate, 125 On weak foundations raise th' enormous weight ? Why, but to sink beneath misfortune's blow, With... | |
 | 1878 - 446 страници
...his last sighs reproach the faith of kings. Speak, then, whose thoughts at humble peace repine,Shall Wolsey's wealth, with Wolsey's end be thine ? Or liv'st...with safer pride content, The wisest justice on the banl^s of Trent? For why did Wolsey near the steeps of Fate On weak foundations raise th' enormous... | |
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