| Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 lehte
...with the ebb, It leaves the channel dry. Dryden. The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art, Reigns, more or less, and glows in every heart; The proud,...gain it, toils on toils endure, The modest shun it, but to make it sure. Young. For praise that 's due, does give no more To worth than what it had before;... | |
| B. J. Wallace, Albert Barnes - 1853 - 714 lehte
...the classics. As an illustration of concentrated power, we quote from Young on the Love of Praise : The proud to gain it, toils on toils endure ; The modest shun it, but to make it sure. O'er globes and sceptres, now on thrones it swells ; Now trims the midnight lamp... | |
| William Cowper, Robert Southey - 1854 - 482 lehte
...Of all their caution in thy gentlest gales ; 2l The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art, Reigns more or less, and glows, in every heart ; The proud...gain it, toils on toils endure, The modest shun it but to make it sure. But swell' d into a gust, — who then, alas ! 485 With all his canvass set, and... | |
| William Cowper - 1854 - 486 lehte
...Of all their caution in thy gentlest gales ; 21 The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art, Deigns more or less, and glows, in every heart ; The proud...gain it, toils on toils endure, The modest shun it but to make it sure. Young. Satire i. But swell' d into a gust, — who then, alas ! 485 With all his... | |
| Helen Skirving Herschell - 1854 - 462 lehte
...gratification of his active heing. Of the approbation of our fellow-creatures, it may with truth be said, " The proud, to gain it, toils on toils endure, The modest shun it, but to make it sure." We have almost as few hermits in opinion and feeling, as we have in personal... | |
| Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 610 lehte
...strays Ptihf. The love of praise, howe'er eoneeal'd by art. Reigns, more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart: The proud to gain it toils on toils endure, The modest shun it but to make it sure. Young's Love of FsmOf praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what eaw, And the puff... | |
| William Cowper - 1856 - 464 lehte
...what ye admire. - - 481. 0 popular applause : " The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art. Reigns more or less, and glows, in every heart ; The proud,...gain it, toils on toils endure, The modest shun it but to make it sure.11 Young. Satire i. 491. Smutch'd artificer : " Another lean unwasb'd artificer."... | |
| Edward Young - 1856 - 536 lehte
...In this same satire he most truly says : — " The lave of praise, howe'er concealed by art, Reigns, more or less, and glows in every heart : The proud,...gain it, toils on toils endure ; The modest shun it. but to make it sure. O'er globes and sceptres, now on thrones it swells ; Now trims the midnight lamp... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 lehte
...What will not men attempt for sacred praise t The Love of I'rnise, howe'cr conceal'd by art, Reigns, more or less, and glows, in every heart : The proud,...gain it, toils on toils endure; The modest shun it, but to make it sure. O'er globes and sceptres, now on thrones it swells; Now, trims the midnight lamp... | |
| 1856 - 374 lehte
...for the welfare of the whole. — Cumberland. The love of praise, howe er concealed by art, Reigns more, or less, and glows in every heart : The proud...gain it toils on toils endure, The modest shun it, but to make it sure, O'er globes, and sceptres, now, on thrones it swells, Now trims the midnight lamp... | |
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