| Charles Gildon - Criticism - 1718 - 394 pages
...perfuade me what I am. Sweet are the Ufes of Adverfity, Which, like the Toad, ugly and venomou*, Wears yet a precious Jewel in his Head : And this our Life exempt from publick Haunt, Finds Tongues in Trees,. Books ia the running Brooks, Sermons in Stones, and Good in... | |
| Thomas Hayward - English poetry - 1737 - 514 pages
...Statefman. ADVERSITY. Sweet are the ufes of adverfity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head : And this our life, exempt from publick haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in ftones, and good in... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1765 - 582 pages
...perfuade me what I am. Sweet are the ufes of Adverfity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head ': And this our life, exempt from pablick-haunr, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in (tones, and good in... | |
| Francis Gentleman - English drama - 1770 - 504 pages
...perfuademe what I am— Sweet are the ufes of adverfity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head, And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in ftones and good in ev'ry thing.... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1773 - 474 pages
...perfiiade me what I am. Sweet are the ufes of adverfity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head: ! And this our life, exempt from publick haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks^ Sermons in ftones, and good in... | |
| Mrs. Griffith (Elizabeth), Elizabeth Griffith - Didactic drama, English - 1775 - 626 pages
...Gentlemen of V»tan». 0.1 the pane: »f Uf; or Habit. Whick Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head * : And this our life, exempt from public haunt, FiaJi tongues in Irtti, took' in the >unnmg brooks, Sfmtris i" Jlones, and s^iod in every thing.... | |
| William Enfield - Elocution - 1785 - 460 pages
...perfuade me what I am. Sweet are the ufes of adverfity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head: And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in ftones, and good in every thing.... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1795 - 382 pages
...what I am. • Sweet arc tlie ufes of adverfity, 4 Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous* ' Wears yet a precious jewel in his head: • And this our life, exempt from public haunt, ' Finds tongues in trees, books in the runmng brooks, ' Sermons iu ikmes, and good in every... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1797 - 644 pages
...perfuade me what I am. Sweet are the ufes of adverfity ; Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head: And this our life, exempt from publick haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in ftones, and good in... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1798 - 458 pages
...perfuade me what I am. Sweet are the ufes of adverfity; Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head : And this our life, exempt from publick haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in ftones, and good in... | |
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