 | 1877 - 362 pages
...might, Guid faith, he тичтши fa' that. BURNS, A Man's a Man for a' that. — A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod ; An honest MAN'S the noblest work of God. POPE, Essay on Man. — From scenes like these old Scotia's grandsur springs, That makes her loved... | |
 | William Darrah - 1877 - 206 pages
...? a fancied life in other's breath — A thing beyond us e'en before our death. A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod ; An honest man's the noblest work of God ! THE GOLD FINDEBS. ALRBRT A. MOTT. ARIVER, in a distant land, Rolled o'er the vast primeval sand... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...Alike or when or where they shone or shine, Or on the Rubicon, or on the Rhine. A wit's a feather, ' The unarm'd Buddha looking, with no trace Of fear or God. Fame but from death a villain's name can save, As justice tears liis body from the grave ; When... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1878 - 138 pages
...Alike or when, or where they shone, or shine, Or on the Rubicon, or on the Rhine. A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod; An honest man's the noblest work of God. Fame but from death a villain's name can save, As justice tears his body from the grave ; «$°... | |
 | 1878 - 230 pages
...makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather or prunella. A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod ; An honest man's the noblest work of God." " The words of the wise are as goads," and I would advise my readers to commit many of them to... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 pages
...neither force nor fawning can Unpin, or wrench from giving all their due. HERBERT. A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod ; An honest man's the noblest work of God. POPE. To find an honest man I beat about, Ami love him, court him, praise him, in or out. POPE.... | |
 | A G. W - 1879 - 314 pages
...Alike, or when or where they shone or shine, Or on the Rubicon, or on the Rhine, A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod, An honest man's the noblest work of God." Let not those, therefore, who are following me through these pages, be led to expect that Harold... | |
 | Reformed episcopal Church of England - 376 pages
...to-day, as much as ever, is " a man that executeth judgment and seeketh the truth." "A wit's a feather' and a chief a rod, an honest man's the noblest work of God." Exercise yourself to have a conscience void of offence (Acts xxiv, 16), and let this be your... | |
 | Goold Brown - 1851 - 1124 pages
...possessive case, it not being always spaced oft' for distinction, as it may be; as, " A wtt's a feather, and a chief a rod ; An honest man's the noblest work of God." — Pope, on Man, Ep. iv, 1. 247. OBS. 24. — As the objective case of nouns is to be distinguished... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 626 pages
...Alike or when, or where, they shone, or shine, Or on the Rubicon, or on the Rhine. A wit 'sa feather, and a chief a rod ; An honest man's the noblest work of God. Fame but from death a villain's name can save, As justice tears his body from the grave ; When... | |
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All that we feel of it begins and ends In the small circle of our foes or friends; To all beside as much an empty shade... 
