 | Ben Jonson - Love poetry - 1640 - 190 pages
...defac't ? Dri'd up? lyes Tnespia wast? Doth Clarius Harp want strings, That not a Nymph now sings ! As 'tis too just a cause; Let this thought quicken thee, Minds that are great and free, If hence thy silence be, Should not on fortune pause, Tis crowne enough to vertue still, her owne applause.... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 912 pages
...To fee (heir feats and bowers by chatt'rinj pies If hence thy lilence be, As 'tis too jufl a caufe ; Let this thought quicken thee : Minds that are great and free, , . Should not on Fortune jiaufe, ptanfe. Ti» crown enough to Virtue {till, her own up* What though the greedy fry Be taken... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 728 pages
...disgrac't, [fact r To see their seat) and bowers by chattring pies deIf hence thy silence be, As 't is too just a cause; Let this thought quicken thee, Minds...Should not on fortune pause, Tis crowne enough to vertue itill, her owne appUuv. What though the greedie frie Be taken with false liaytos Of worded balladrie,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 746 pages
...disgrac't, [fac't5 To see their seats and bowers by chattring pies deIf hence thy silence be, As 't is too just a cause; Let this thought quicken thee, Minds...that are great and free, Should not on fortune pause, "Us crowne enough to rertue still, her owne applause. What though the greedie frie Be taken with false... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - Dramatists, English - 1816 - 482 pages
...nymph now sings ; Or droop they as disgrac'd, To see their seats and bowers by chattering pies defac'd? If hence thy silence be, As 'tis too just a cause...are great and free Should not on fortune pause, Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause. What though the greedy fry Be taken with false baits... | |
 | Elizabeth A. Thurston - Quotations - 1866 - 320 pages
...thought Were written on his brow, How many would our pity move, Who wake our envy now! Metastasio. 1" ET this thought quicken thee, Minds that are great and...crowne enough to virtue still, her owne applause. Ben Jonson's Ode to Himself. VOLETE aver molti in aiuto ? fate di non averne bisogno ! ~V\7E see so... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 pages
...now sings ! 10 Or droop they as disgraced, To see their seats and bowers by chattering pies defaced? If hence thy silence be, As 'tis too just a cause, Let this thought quicken thee : 15 Minds that are great and free, Should not on Fortune pause ; 'Tis crown enough to Virtue still,... | |
 | 1870 - 464 pages
...now sings ! 10 Or droop they as disgraced, To see their seats and bowers by chattering pies defaced ? If hence thy silence be, As 'tis too just a cause, Let this thought quicken thee : 1 5 Minds that are great and free, Should not on Fortune pause ; 'Tis crown enough to Virtue still,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1874 - 868 pages
...nymph now sings ? Or droop they as disgrac't To see their seats and bowers by chatt'ring pies defac't I If hence thy silence be, As 'tis too just a cause,...pause ; 'Tis crowne enough to virtue still, her owne applaud. What though the greedy frie Be taken with talse baytes Of worded balladrie, And thinke it... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1874 - 600 pages
...nymph now sings? Or droop they as disgraced To see their seats and bowers by chattering pies defaced ? If hence thy silence be, As 'tis too just a cause,...great and free Should not on fortune pause ; 'Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause. BEN JONSON. NOT EVERY DAY FIT FOR VERSE. "Tis not every... | |
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tis too just a cause, Let this thought quicken thee : Minds that are great and free, "Should not on fortune pause ; Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause. 
