 | John Milton - 1873 - 606 páginas
...Consider first, that great Or blight infers not excellence : the earth Though, in comparison of heav'n, so small, Nor glistering, may of solid good contain More plenty than the sun, that barren shines, Whose virtue on itself works no effect, But in the fruitful earth : there first received His beams,... | |
 | John Milton - 1873 - 678 páginas
...heaven such journeys run, Earth sitting still, when she alone receives The benefit. Consider first, that great Or bright infers not excellence: the earth, Though, in comparison of heaven, so small, $br glistening, may of solid good contain More plenty than the sun that barren shines ; Whose yirtue... | |
 | Richard Harrison Black - 1874 - 472 páginas
...scandalous only to things : a character or transaction is infamous; but a transaction only is scandalous. In-fatuate, from infatuare, to make one a fool. To...superior. In-finite (2). That which has no limits, in which sense God alone is infinite. " A million is full as far from infinite as one." Ltenham, — Infinitive,... | |
 | John Milton - 1874 - 758 páginas
...journeys run, Earth sitting still, when she alone receives The benefit : Consider first that great 90 Or bright infers not excellence : the Earth, Though,...contain More plenty than the sun that barren shines ; Whose virtue on itself works no effect, But in the fruitful Earth ; there first receiv'd, His beams,... | |
 | John Milton, Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1874 - 608 páginas
...journeys run, Earth sitting still, when she alone receives The benefit. Consider, first, that great 90 rOr bright infers not excellence. The Earth, Though, in...contain More plenty than the Sun that barren shines, Whose virtue on itself works no effect, But in the fruitful Earth; there first received, His beams,... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - 1874 - 318 páginas
...we must not be staggered by the great superiority of Jupiter in bulk and mass. We must remember That great Or bright infers not excellence : the earth, Though, in comparison of Heaven, so small, Nor glist'ring, may of solid good contain More plenty than the sun that barren shines, Whose virtue in... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 páginas
...sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time. LONGFELLOW: Psalm of Lift. Great Or bright infers not excellence : the earth, Though, in comparison of heav'n, so small, Nor glistering, may of solid good contain More plenty than the sun, that barren shines.... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 840 páginas
...Heaven such journeys run Earth sitting still, when she alone receives The benefit: consider first, that X shine* , Whose virtue on itself works no effect. But in the fruitful Earth ; there first roceiv'd,... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1876 - 568 páginas
...NORWAY. BENEATH THE SURFACE; OR, THE WONDERS OF THE UNDERGROUND WORLD. By IV. H. DAVENPORT ADAMS. •• The earth, Though, in comparison of heaven, so small....contain More plenty than the sun that barren shines." LONDON: T. NELSON AND SONS, PATERNOSTER ROW; EDINBURGH; AND NEW YORK. 1876. PREFACE. ||N the following... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 páginas
...been But the best wrestler on the green. — Waller. 1620. GREATNESS : is not necessarily excellence. What is fame ? The echo of a long-lost name ; A breath,...for a day, Dying next morrow ; A stream that hurr 1621. GREATNESS. Perils of THE slippery tops of human state, The gilded pinnacles of fate. — Ccnvley.... | |
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Or bright infers not excellence : the earth Though, in comparison of heaven, so small, Nor glistering, may of solid good contain More plenty than the sun that barren shines... 
