 | Mary Elizabeth Braddon - 1867 - 570 Seiten
...heaven ; It makes men look like gods. The best of men That e'er wore earth about him was a sufferer, A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit— The first true gentleman that ever brtath'd." " Tliis," says Hazlitt, in his Iseturet on the Literatim of the Age of EluabeA, " wag honest... | |
 | Malcolm MacColl - 1872 - 276 Seiten
...connected with irpoa-eveynas. f " The best of men That e'er wore earth about Him was a sufferer — A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit — The first true gentleman that ever breathed." — Dekker. He felt the outpourings of His self-sacrifice repelled on all sides by the sins of men,... | |
 | Stallybrass - 1872 - 314 Seiten
...heaven ; It makes men look like gods. The best of men That e'er wore earth about him was a sufferer ; A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit, The first true gentleman that ever breathed." DECKER. IT was all very well for Helen to hope that a milder doom than death would be allotted to Maleenovsky... | |
 | Manthano (pseud.) - 1872 - 396 Seiten
...philanthropists ; to an English poet, " The best of men That ere wore earth about him was a sufferer, A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit, The first true gentleman that ever breathed." A sceptical historian, accidentally taking up the New Testament, suddenly finds in Christ the explanation... | |
 | 1872 - 556 Seiten
...boldness equal to its piety : — " The best of men That e'er wore earth about him, was a sufferer ; A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit ; The first true gentleman that ever breathed.'* This was old honest Decker, and the lines ought to embalm his memory to every one who has a sense either... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1872 - 224 Seiten
...philanthropists; to an English poet, "The best of men That ere wore earth about him was a sufferer, A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit, The first true gentleman that ever breathed1." A sceptical historian, accidentally taking up the New Testament, suddenly finds in Christ... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1873 - 508 Seiten
...beautiful lines so often quoted : . . . the best of men That e'er wore earth about him was a sufferer ; A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit; The first true gentleman that ever breathed. Extracts from the plays mentioned may be found in Charles Lamb's "Specimens of English Dramatic Poets... | |
 | James Booth - 1873 - 268 Seiten
...has hardly the true orthodox ring. t ' The best of men That e'er wore earth about Him was a sufferer, A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit, The first true gentleman that ever breathed.' — DF.KKKR. There is something inexpressibly attractive in the character of Jesus higher elements... | |
 | Abraham Holroyd - 1873 - 228 Seiten
...WADDINOTON, 1860. WHO ARE THE NOBLE? " The best of men That e'er wore earth about him was a sufferer, A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit : The first true gentleman that ever breathed." DEEHER. BREACH self -respect to me, a country clown ! Who heeds respect when poor and lowly born? __^^... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1873 - 388 Seiten
...peace, It makes men look like gods! The best of men That e'er wore earth about him was a Sufferer, A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit; The first true gentleman that ever breathed." DECKER. " ' I know not ' is one word ; ' I know ' is ten words." — CHINKSE PROVERB. " Friendship... | |
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tis the soul of peace ; Of all the virtues 'tis nearest kin to heaven ; It makes men look like gods. The best of men That e'er wore earth about him was a sufferer, A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit, The first true gentleman that ever breath'd. 
