 Honour or wealth with all his worth and pains ! It sounds like stories from the land of spirits, If any man obtain that which he merits, Or any merit that which he obtains.  The Irish Monthly - Page 1181908Full view - About this book
 | 1803 - 502 pages
...cruel, base, and blind ; But thou, methinks, art pure and holy, Exalted, rais'd, refin'd ! EPIGRAMS. How seldom, friend ! a good great man inherits Honour...spirits, If any man obtain that, which he merits, Or any merits that, which he obtains. REPLY TO THE ABOVE. FOR shame, dear friend, renounce this can ting strain.'... | |
 | 1803 - 508 pages
...; But thou, methinks, art pure and holy, Exalted, rais'd, rerin'd ! EPIGRAMS. How seldom, friend I a good great man inherits Honour or wealth with all...the land of spirits, If any man obtain that, which be merits, Or any merits that, which he obtains. REPLY TO THE ABOVE. FOR shame, dear friend, renounce... | |
 | 1803 - 520 pages
...cruel, base, and blind; But thou, methinks, art pure and holy, Exalted, rais'd, refin'd ! EPIGRAMS. How seldom, friend ! a good great man inherits Honour or wealth with all his worth and painsj It sounds, like stories from the land of spirits, If any man obtain that, which he merits, Or... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1835 - 594 pages
...radical. Hear the dying poet's own comment on this and all other such mischances : — ' COMPLAINT. ' How seldom, friend, a good great man inherits Honour...which he merits, Or any merit that which he obtains. 1 REPROOF. ' For shame, dear friend ! renounce this canting strain! What wouldst thou have a good great... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1812 - 466 pages
...the Proverb is current by a misuse, or a catachresis at least, of both the "words, Fortune and Fools. How. seldom Friend ! a good great man inherits Honour or wealth with ail his worth and pains! It sounds, like stories from the land of spirits, If any man obtain that which... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1818 - 384 pages
...at least, of both the words, fortune and fools. How seldom friend ! a good great man inherits Honor or wealth with all his worth and pains ! It sounds,...which he merits, Or any merit that which he obtains. REPLY. For shame, dear friend ! renounce this canting strain What would'stthou have a good great man... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1818 - 390 pages
...at least, of both the words, fortune and fools. How seldom friend ! a good great man inherits Honor or wealth with all his worth and pains ! It sounds,...which he merits, Or any merit that which he obtains. REPLY. For shame, dear friend ! renounce this canting strain What would'st thou have a good great man... | |
 | 1830 - 224 pages
...1829. Lines, ty ST Coleridge. COMPLAINT. How seldom, friend ! the good groat man inherits , Honour and wealth, with all his worth and pains! It sounds like...which he merits, Or any merit that which he obtains. REPLY. For shame, dear friend! — renounce this canting strain, % What wouldst thou have agood great... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1848 - 590 pages
...somewhat misanthropic quartette of Coleridge : — How seldom, friend, a good, great man inherits Honor or wealth, with all his worth and pains: It sounds like stories from a land of spirits, If any man obtain that which he merits, Or any merit that which he obtains. In view... | |
 | 1833 - 430 pages
...with Coleridge, ' How seldom, friend, a great good man inheritsHonour or wealth for all his worth or pains ! It sounds like stories from the land of spirits,...he merits, Or any merit that which he obtains.' And the only friends and treasures, there is any prospect of his acquiring, are those depicted by the same... | |
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