 Heaven, and good men's wishes 'tis at length Happily conquered by cost, art, and strength, And after five years' dear expense in days, Travail and pains, beside the infinite ways Of malice, envy, false suggestions, Able to daunt the spirit of mighty ones,...  Hydraulia, an Historical and Descriptive Account of the Water Works of ... - Page 54by William Matthews - 1835 - 454 lehteFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Cromwell - 1828 - 540 lehte
...suggestions, Able to dannt the spirits of mighty ones In wealth and courage. This, a work so rare, Onely by one man's industry, cost, and care, Is brought to blest effect, so much withstood ; His only ayme the Citie's generall good. And where (before) many unjust complaints, Enviously seated, caused... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1832 - 846 lehte
...malice, envy, fake suggestions, Able to daunt the spirit of mighty ones In wealth and courage, this, a work so rare, Only by one man's industry, cost, and...blest effect, so much withstood, His only aim the city's general good.' A similar series of mere rhymes details the construction of the works, and enumerates... | |
 | Thomas Middleton - 1840 - 654 lehte
...malice, envy, false suggestions, Able to daunt the spirit of mighty ones In wealth and courage, this, a work so rare, Only by one man's industry, cost, and...blest effect, so much withstood, His only aim the city's general good ; And wherek before many unjust complaints, Enviously seated, have ' oft caus'd... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1849 - 688 lehte
...spirits of mighty ones For wealth and courage, this, a worke so rare, Only by one man's industrie, cost, and care, Is brought to blest effect, so much withstood, His only ayme the city's gen'rall good." Further, at the letting open of the sluice, — " Now for the frutes... | |
 | James Hogg, Florence Marryat - 1864 - 684 lehte
...malice, envy, false suggestions, Able to dannt the spirit of mighty ones In wealth and courage.this, a work so rare. Only by one man's industry, cost, and...care, Is brought to blest effect, so much withstood ; Ilia only aim the city's general good. •Then worthy magistrates, to whose content, Next to the... | |
 | Henry Richard Fox Bourne - 1866 - 464 lehte
...malice, envy, false suggestions, Able to daunt the spirit of mighty ones In wealth and courage, this, a work so rare, Only by one man's industry, cost, and...blest effect, so much withstood ; His only aim the City's general good. ' Then worthy magistrates, to whose content, Next to the State, all this great... | |
 | Henry Richard Fox Bourne - 1869 - 336 lehte
...malice, envy, false suggestions, Able to daunt the spirit of mighty ones In wealth and courage, this, a work so rare, Only by one man's industry, cost, and...blest effect, so much withstood ; His only aim, the city's general good. " Then worthy magistrates, to whose content, Next to the State, all this great... | |
 | Henry Richard Fox Bourne - 1869 - 308 lehte
...malice, envy, false suggestions, Able to daunt the spirit of mighty ones In wealth and courage, this, a work so rare, Only by one man's industry, cost, and...blest effect, so much withstood ; His only aim, the city's general good. " Then worthy magistrates, to whose content, Next to the State, all this great... | |
 | 1884 - 798 lehte
...suggestions, Able to daunt the spirits of mighty ones In wealth and.courage. This a work so rare Onely by one man's industry, cost, and care, Is brought to blest effect, so much withstood ; His onely ayme the Citie's generall good. And where (before) many injust complaints, Enviously seated,... | |
 | 1884 - 820 lehte
...suggestions, Able to daunt the spirits of mighty ones In wealth and courage. This a work so rare Onely by one man's industry, cost, and care, Is brought to blest effect, so much withstood ; His onely ayme the Citie's generall good. And where (before) many injust complaints, Enviously seated,... | |
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