 Croesus' wealth a straw; For care, I care not what it is; I fear not fortune's fatal law; My mind is such as may not move For beauty bright, or force of love. I wish but what I have at will; I wander not to seek for more; I like the plain, I climb no...  The Living Age - Page 1861875Full view - About this book
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1809 - 914 lehte
...My minde is such as may not moue For beautie bright, nor force of loue. %. I wish 'out what 1 haue at will, I wander not to seeke for more, I like the plaine, I clime no hill, In greatest stornies I sit on shore; And laugh at them that toyle in vaine, To get what... | |
 | Thomas Percy - 1812 - 518 lehte
...feare not fortunes fatall law : 40 My mind is such as may not move For beautie bright or force of love. I wish but what I have at will ; I wander not to seeke for more ; I like the plaine, I clime no hill ; 45 In greatest stormcs I sitte on shore, And laugh at them that toile in vaine To get... | |
 | 1819 - 394 lehte
...fear not fortune's fatal law : My mind is such as may not move For beauty bright or force of love. I wish but what I have at will ; I wander not to seek for more ; I, like the plain, I climb no hill ; In greatest storms I sit on shore, And laugh at... | |
 | Excerpta Tudoriana - 1814 - 350 lehte
...fear not Fortune's fatal law. My mind is such as may not move For Beauty bright, nor force of Love. I wish but what I have at will ; I wander not to seek for more; I like the plain ; I climb no hill ; In greatest storms I sit on shore, And laugh at... | |
 | 1814 - 280 lehte
...fear not Fortune's fatal law. My mind is such as may not move For Beauty bright, nor force of Love. I wish but what I have at will ; I wander not to seek .for more; I like the plain ; I climb no hill ; In greatest storms I sit on shore, And laugh at... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 lehte
...iVar not Fortune's fatal law. My mind is such as may not move For beauty bright, or force of love. I wish but what I have at will ; I wander not to seek for more ; I like the plain, I climb no hill ; In greatest sturms 1 sit on shore, And laittth... | |
 | 1838 - 884 lehte
...mind could never bear. I fear no foe, nor fawn on friend ; I loath not life, nor dread mine end. " I wish but what I have at will, I wander not to seek for more : I like the plain, I climb no hill, In greatest storms 1 sit on shore, And laugh at... | |
 | William Lincoln, Christopher Columbus Baldwin - 1826 - 906 lehte
...feare not fortune's fatall law : My mind is such as may not move For beautie bright or force of love. I wish but what I have at will ; I wander not to seeke for more; I like the plaine, I clime no hill ; In greatest stormes I sitte on shore, And laugh at them that toile in vaine To get... | |
 | 1826 - 404 lehte
...feare not fortune's fatall law : My mind is such as may not move For beautie bright or force of love. I wish but what I have at will ; I wander not to seeke for more ; I like the plaine, I clime no hill ; In greatest stormes I sitte on shore, And laugh at them that toile in vaine To get... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 lehte
...fear not fortune's fatal law; My mind is such as may not move For beauty bright, or force of love. I wish but what I have at will; I wander not to seek for more : Hike the plain, I climb no hill; In greatest storms I sit on shore, And laugh at them... | |
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