 | W. K. - 1865 - 260 pagine
...all the virtues, 'tis nearest kin to heaven : It makes men look like gods. The best of men That ever wore earth about him was a sufferer ; ' A soft, meek,...spirit; ' The first true gentle-man that ever breathed. DEKKER.' Contentment. ART thou poor, yet hast thou golden slumbers ? . • O sweet content ! Art thou... | |
 | W. K. - 1865 - 238 pagine
...all the virtues, 'tis nearest kin to heaven : It makes men look like gods. The best of men That ever wore earth about him was a sufferer ; A soft, meek,...spirit ; The first true gentle-man that ever breathed. Contentment. ART thou poor, yet hast thou golden slumbers ? O sweet content ! Art thou rich, yet is... | |
 | elder smith - 1865 - 800 pagine
...words they could clothe simple and exquisite thoughts which bring religion home to cur own hearts : — The best of men That e'er wore earth about him was a sufferer ; A suit, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit ; The first true gentleman that ever breathed. With the... | |
 | Henrietta Keddie - 1866 - 332 pagine
...is a copy of His life, of whom it could be fitly written in words that thrill as you read them — "The best of men that e'er wore earth about Him, was...spirit ; The first true gentleman that ever breathed." And the copy, however poor it be, even that of aweak, silly young girl, must be taken faithfully, unremittingly,... | |
 | Alastair St. Clair Mackenzie - 1914 - 520 pagine
...Patience ! why, 'tis the soul of peace, Of all the virtues nearest kin to heaven ; It makes men look like gods. The best of men That e'er wore earth about him was a suffrer. SUPPLEMENTARY READING Besides general works mentioned in previous chapters, the following... | |
 | John Mackinnon Robertson - 1915 - 556 pagine
...silence reminds us that the largest spirits 1 Henslowe'a Diary, ed. Greg, 1, fol. 96. 1 Eg, the lines, The best of men That e'er wore earth about him, was...spirit. The first true gentleman that ever breathed, at tbe close of Part I of ';•/.•.• Honest Whore; and the phrase, "Heaven's great arithmet ician."... | |
 | Clark Sutherland Northup, William Coolidge Lane, John Christopher Schwab - 1915 - 524 pagine
...every true scholar: "The pure in heart shall see God." "The beauty of the Lord our God be upon us." 1 "The best of men That e'er wore earth about him, was...spirit; The first true gentleman that ever breathed." — Thomai Dekker. INTELLECTUAL LEADERSHIP IN AMERICAN HISTORY BY ALEXANDER HAMILTON BULLOCK Delivered... | |
 | Frederic Rowland Marvin - 1917 - 300 pagine
...lady. It was of our blessed Lord and Saviour that the quaint old Thomas Dekker wrote these lines : " The best of men That e'er wore earth about him was...spirit, The first true gentleman that ever breathed." II As the bee distilleth the sweetest honey from wild flowers along the roadside and in meadows, so... | |
 | Christian Frederick Gauss - 1917 - 336 pagine
...abolitionist. See Note 2 to Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. 26. Dekker's beautiful lines deserve quotation. "The best of men That e'er wore earth about him, was...spirit, The first true gentleman that ever breathed." See Thomas Dekker, edited by Ernest Rhys. The Mermaid Series, London, 1887, page 190. 27. Perhaps more... | |
 | Christian Gauss - 1917 - 408 pagine
...abolitionist See Note 2 to Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. 26. Dekker's beautiful lines deserve quotation. '' The best of men That e'er wore earth about him, was...spirit, The first true gentleman that ever breathed." See Tlwmas DeKker, edited by Ernest Rhys. The Mermaiu Series, London, 1887, page 190. 27. Perhaps more... | |
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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... 
