 | Appleton Morgan, Charlotte Endymion Porter - 1891 - 302 Seiten
...many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed that God would give him strength ; for greatness he could not want. Neither could I condole in a word or syllable for him, as knowing no accident could no harm to virtue, but rather help to make it manifest." There is nothing in this language to show... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 728 Seiten
...many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed that God would give him strength, for greatness he could not want ; neither could I condole in a word or syllable...harm to virtue, but rather help to make it manifest. — BEN JONSON. The wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind. — ALEXANDER POPE. Bacon was cradled in... | |
 | John Wood Warter - 1889 - 396 Seiten
...many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed that God would give him strength, for greatness he could not want. Neither could I condole in a word or syllable...harm to virtue, but rather help to make it manifest.' The natural inference is that Ben Jonson supposed those about him to be really the guilty ones, and... | |
 | Charlotte Carmichael Stopes - 1889 - 296 Seiten
...many ages. In his adversity, I ever prayed that God would give him strength ; for greatness he could not want. Neither could I condole in a word or syllable...harm to virtue, but rather help to make it manifest." Jonsou's opinion of his talents is mentioned in Chapters iv. and v. In State Trials, vol. ii., I find... | |
 | 1889 - 660 Seiten
...many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed that God would give him strength, for greatness he could not want. Neither could I condole in a word or syllable...harm to virtue, but rather help to make it manifest." Would Jonson have spoken thus of a dead man if he himself had written the works attributed to that... | |
 | Mrs. Henry Pott - 1891 - 432 Seiten
...many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed that God would give him strength; for greatness he could not want, neither could I condole in a word or syllable...harm to virtue, but rather help to make it manifest. " If, as we have been told, such heartfelt words as these are merely the effusions of personal attachment,... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1891 - 888 Seiten
...him strength, for greatness he could not want. Neither could I condole for him in a word or syllable, as knowing no accident could do harm to virtue, but rather help to make it manifest." — B. JONSON. Page 85, line 20. A spectre wandering in the lu/ht of day ' See the Agamemnon of jEschylus,... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1892 - 204 Seiten
...many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed thrt God would give him strength ; for greatness he could not want. Neither could I condole in a word or syllable...harm to virtue, but rather help to make it manifest. De corruptela morum. — There cannot be one color of the mind, another of the wit. If the mind be... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1892 - 228 Seiten
...many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed that God would give him strength ; for greatness he could not want. Neither could I condole in a word or syllable...harm to virtue, but rather help to make it manifest. De corruptela morum. — There cannot be one color s of the mind, another of the wit. If the mind be... | |
 | William Ernest Henley, Charles Whibley - 1894 - 452 Seiten
...many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed that God would give him strength ; for greatness he could not want. Neither could I condole in a word or syllable...harm to virtue, but rather help to make it manifest. ill THE TRUE ARTIFICER Jonson IT cannot but come to pass, that these men who cunningly 1641 seek to... | |
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But I have and do reverence him for the greatness that was only proper to himself, in that he seemed to me ever, by his work, one of the greatest men, and most worthy of admiration, that had been in many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed that God would... 
