| Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 642 pages
...lie : To laugh, were want of goodness and of grace, And to be grave, exceeds all pow'r of face. 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.' Nine... | |
| Epes Sargent - American poetry - 1881 - 1000 pages
...lie. To laugh were want of goodness and of grace, Ami tn be grave exceeds all power of face. I sit rough the deep, While the stormy winds do blow ; While the battle Ami drop at last, but in unwilling ears, This saving counsel, " Keep your piece nine years." "Nine... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1881 - 176 pages
...lye: To laugh, were want of goodness and of grace, And to be grave, exceeds all pow'r of face. 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.' 40... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1881 - 200 pages
...lye : To laugh, were want of goodness and of grace, And to be grave, exceeds all pow'r ofjface. 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.' 40 Nine... | |
| Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1881 - 626 pages
...lie : To laugh, were want of goodness and of grace, And to be grave, exceeds all pow'r of face. 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.' Nine... | |
| Epes Sargent - American poetry - 1882 - 1002 pages
...lie. To langh were want of goodness aud of grace, And to be grave exceeds all power of face. I sit ivory ueck. Love in these labyrinths his slaves detains, And mig And drop at last, but in unwilling ears, Tliis saving counsel, " Keep your piece nine years." "Nine... | |
| Brainerd Kellogg - English literature - 1882 - 460 pages
...lie: To laugh were want of goodness and of grace, And to be grave exceeds all pow'r of face. 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." " Nine... | |
| William Swinton - Readers - 1885 - 620 pages
...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 ears, This saving counsel: "Keep your piece nine years."6 Nine years... | |
| William Swinton - Readers - 1885 - 624 pages
...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 ears, This saving counsel : " Keep your piece nine years." 6 Nine... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1885 - 72 pages
...To laugh, were want of goodness and of grace, 35 And to be grave, exceeds all Pow'r of face. 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." 40 "Nine... | |
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