 | Joseph Butler - Natural theology - 1859 - 240 pages
...being a free agent." Who conceals it? Does the Author of nature conceal it, and this writer discover it ? To laugh were want of goodness and of grace, And to be grave exceeds all power of face. BEA.TTIE. G that necessary agents should be rewarded and punished. It is matter of fact that men are... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1859 - 420 pages
...me dead. Seized and tied down to judge, how wretched I? Who can't be silent, and who will not lie : To laugh, were want of goodness and of grace ; And to be grave, exceeds all power of face. I sit with sad civility ; I read With honest anguish and an aching head ; And drop at last, but in... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 384 pages
...me dead. Seiz'd and tied down to judge, how wretched I! Who can't be silent, and who will not lie. To laugh were want of goodness and of grace, And to be grave exceeds all power of face. I sit with sad civility, I read With honest anguish and an aching head, And drop at last, but in unwilling... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1859 - 450 pages
...me dead. Seized and tied down to judge, how wretched I ! Who can't be silent, and who will not lie. To laugh were want of goodness and of grace, And to be grave exceeds all power of lace. I sit with sad civility, I read \Vith honest anguish and an aching head, And drop at last, but... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1859 - 504 pages
...me dead. Seized and tied down to judge, how wretehed 1 ! Who can't be silent, and who will not lie : the golden cup his queen had fiU'd ; On the mid pavement pours excceds all power of face. I sit with sad eivility, I read With honest anguish, and an aching head... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pages
...me dead. Seiz'd and ty'd down to judge, how wretched I ! Who can't be silent, and who will not lie : To laugh, were want of goodness and of grace ; And to be grave, ercrei/s all power efface I »it with tad cieility ' I read With honest anguish, and an aching head... | |
 | Benjamin Lambert - Humor in literature - 1861 - 62 pages
...me dead. Seized and ty'd down to judge, how wretched I ! Who can't be silent, and who will not lie : To laugh, were want of goodness and of grace ; And to be grave, exceeds all power efface. I sit with sad civility ; I read With honest anguish, and an aching head ; And drop at last,... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 pages
...me dead. Seized and tied down to judge, how wretched I, Who can't be silent, and who will not lie: To laugh were want of goodness and of grace ; And to be grave, exceeds all power of face. I sit with sad civility ; I read With honest anguish, and an aching head ; And drop at last, but in... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pages
...suatch'd hasty from the sidelong maid, On purpose guurdless, or pretending sleep. THOMSON. — Winter. To laugh were want of goodness and of grace ; And to be grave, exceeds all power of face. LA UGH.— Laugh and be fat, sir. BEN JONSON. — The Penntes. Laugh and shake in Rabelais' easy-chair.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 388 pages
...m« dead. Seiz'd and tied d--.wn to judge, how wretched I! Who can't be silent, and who will not lie. To laugh were want of goodness and of grace, And to be grave exceeds all power of face. I sit with sad civility, I read With honest anguish and an aching head, And drop at last, but in unwilling... | |
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I sit with sad civility, I read With honest anguish, and an aching head; And drop at last, but in unwilling ears, This saving counsel, 'Keep your piece nine years. 
