 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1891 - 302 Seiten
...? " ' ' Who counsels best? who whispers, " Be but great, With praise or infamy leave that to fate ; Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace ; If not, by any means get wealth and place. " ' Horace, I Epist. i. 64. Pope, Imitations, 1. IOT. 3 ' Casting his eyes upon the heavens which were... | |
 | Henry Seton Merriman - 1892 - 274 Seiten
...eyes looked beyond him with a vacancy which was not the vacancy of dulness. CHAPTER X. A LAST THROW " Get place and wealth ; if possible, with grace ; If not, by any means get wealth and place." DAYLIGHT broke next morning in a snow-storm, and a thin sprinkling lay over all the hills, clothing... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1893 - 588 Seiten
...POITIERS? roo Wha counsels best? who whispers, " Be but great, "With Praise or Infamy leave that to fate; " Get Place and Wealth, if possible, with grace ; " If not, by any means get Wealth and Place — " * [Warburton points that this line gives the 5 [Sir John Barnard, a qualcer who joined the meaning... | |
 | Ontario Beekeepers' Association - 1893 - 418 Seiten
...seeker, and the son imbibes it all. It becomes his first principle of action in life. It is this : " Get place and wealth ; if possible with grace ; If not, by any means get wealth and place." Take the opposite picture. The influence of the parent on the child is good and wholesome. The parent... | |
 | Rev. James Wood - 1893 - 694 Seiten
...itself. Ki 6 Get on the crupper of a good stout hypothesis, and you may ride round the world. Steme. Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace ; / If not, by any means get wealth and place. Pope. Get spindle and distaff ready, and God will send the flax. Pr. Get thee to a nunnery ! //я«/,,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1893 - 566 Seiten
...POITIERS? 100 Who counsels best? who whispers, " Be but great, "With Praise or Infamy leave that to fate; "Get Place and Wealth, if possible, with grace; " If not, by any means get Wealth and Place — " 1 [Warburton points that this line gives the 5 [Sir John Barnard, a quaker who joined the meaning... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1899 - 534 Seiten
...POICTIERS? Who counsels best? who whispers, " Be but great, With praise or infamy leave that to fate ; Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place." For what? to have a box where eunuchs sing, And foremost in the circle eye a king. Or he, who bids... | |
 | 1893 - 342 Seiten
...rather than the maxims of Solomon, the expression of their chief object of desire and effort, — " Get place and wealth ; if possible, with grace ; If not, by any nienns get wealth and place," we may find in La Motte's life and work a corrective for this unworthy... | |
 | Sir Robert Kennaway Douglas - 1894 - 506 Seiten
...The principle upon which a larger proportion act is simple and direct. In the words of Pope it is — ".Get place and wealth; if possible, with grace ; If not, by any means get wealth and place." The purlieus of the examination halls are infested by a race of rakish scholars, who are prepared to... | |
 | Ontario. Legislative Assembly - 1895 - 858 Seiten
...place seeker, and the son imbibes it all. It becomes his first principle of action in life. It is this "Get place and wealth ; if possible with grace : If not, by any means get wealth and place." Take the opposite picture. The influence of the parent on the child is good and wholesome. The parent... | |
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Who counsels best? who whispers, "Be but great, With praise or infamy leave that to fate; Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place~ 
