I lose Riches ; and a wise man poor Is like a sacred book that's never read ; To himself he lives and to all else seems dead. This age thinks better of a gilded fool, Than of a threadbare saint in Wisdom's school I... Preferment: Or, My Uncle the Earl - Strana 161autor/autoři: Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances) - 1840Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
| Charles Lamb - 1808 - 512 str.
...downfall wrought. Shall I contract myself to Wisdom's love ? Then I lose Riches ; and a wise man'poor Is like a sacred book that's never read ; To himself he lives and to all else seems dead. This age thinks better of a gilded fool, Than of a threadbare saint in Wisdom's school,... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1813 - 508 str.
...choice Troy's downfall wrought. Shall I contract myself to Wisdom's love ? Then I lose Riches ; and a wise man poor Is like a sacred book that's never read ; To himself he lives and to all else seems dead. This age thinks better of a gilded fool, Than of a threadbare saint in Wisdom's school.... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 1871 - 644 str.
...to come." " Yet," reasons he, " Shall I contract myself to Wisdom's lore ? Then I lose riches ; and a wise man, poor, Is like a sacred book that's never read : To himself he lives, and to all else seems dead. This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in Wisdom's school.... | |
| Charles Wentworth Dilke - 1814 - 450 str.
...choice Troy's downfall wrought. Shall I contract myself to wisdom's love? Then I lose riches ; and a wise man poor, Is like a sacred book that's never read, To himself he lives, and to all else seems deadf : This age thinks better of a gilded fool, Than of a thread-bare saint in wisdom's school.... | |
| 1815 - 698 str.
...choice Troy's downfall wrought. Shall I contract myself to wisdom's lore ? Then I loose riches ; and a wise man poor, Is like a sacred book that's never read, To himself he lives, and to all else seems dcadf: This age thinks better of a gilded fool, Than of a thread-Bare saint in wisdom's school:... | |
| Charles Wentworth Dilke - 1816 - 448 str.
...fatal choice Troy's downfall wrought. Shall I contract myself to wisdom's love? Then I lose riches; and a wise man poor, Is like a sacred book that's never read, To himself he lives, and to all else seems deadf : This age thinks better of a gilded fool, Than of a thread-bare saint in wisdom's school.... | |
| Laconics - 1829 - 358 str.
...busied from day to day in finding the rich and the fortunate something to do.—Julmson. DCCXIV. - A wise man poor, Is like a sacred book that's never read, To himself he lives, and to all else seems dead: This age thinks better of a gilded fool, Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.... | |
| John Timbs - 1829 - 354 str.
...busied from day to day in finding the rich and the fortunate something to do. — Johnson. DCCXIV. • A wise man poor, Is like a sacred book that's never read, * To himself he lives, and to all else seems dead: This age thinks better of a gilded fool, Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.... | |
| 1830 - 470 str.
...absu:dili*B. FRAGMENTS. POVERTY. Shall I contract myself to Wisdom's lore ? There I lose riches ; and a wise man poor Is like a sacred book that's never read.— Decker, DERISION. O call this madness in : lee, from the windows Of every eye Derision thrusts out... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1841 - 844 str.
...downfall wrought. Shall I contract myself to wisdom's love 1 Then I lose riches ; and a wise man poor, IB like a sacred book that's never read, To himself he lives, and to all else seems dead : This age thinks better of a gilded fool, Than of a thread-bare saint in wisdom's school.... | |
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