 | 1883 - 702 pages
...all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language. — Coleridge. He who holds the golden mean, And lives contentedly between The...poor, Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door, THE BROTHERS DAVENPORT AND THE EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH. [In connection with Dr. Nichols' paper on "The... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Readers - 1883 - 352 pages
...logic, and the wisdom, and the wit, I long to know them all. Cawper. 9. The Golden Mean. He that holds fast the golden mean, And lives contentedly between...that pinch the poor, Nor plagues that haunt the rich mini's door, Embittering all his state. Harare, lry Cowper. 10. The Influence of Example. The smallest... | |
 | William Walters - Christian life - 1883 - 208 pages
...the greater his danger. "The tallest pines feel most the power Of wintry blasts ; the loftiest tower Comes heaviest to the ground ; The bolts that spare the mountain's side His cloud-capt eminence divide, And spread the ruin round." So, many have been ruined by success. VALERIAN,... | |
 | Michigan - 1884 - 634 pages
...life that would endow man with the most health and happiness. The poet has sung — "He that holds fast the golden mean, And lives contentedly between...the poor Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door, Embittering all his state." From Abraham on the plains of Mamre, to the shepherds tending the flocks... | |
 | Atlantis - 1884 - 234 pages
...Wiedersehen. CHAPTER II. HUMAN IDEALS, ACCORDING TO THE SACRED BOOKS OF CONFUCIANISM. He that holds fast the Golden Mean, And lives contentedly between...poor, Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door, Embittering all his state. — COWPER'S Horace. D. — Now then, what course shall we follow in studying... | |
 | Michigan - 1884 - 644 pages
...man with the most health and happiness. The poet has sung — "He that holds fast the golden muan, And lives contentedly between The little and the great....the wants that pinch the poor Nor plagues that haunt tlie rich man's door. Embittering all his state/' history, we find a tendency to pastoral communism.... | |
 | Sanitary Institute of Great Britain - Public health - 1884 - 516 pages
...who would hold the golden mean And live contentedly, between The poor man and the great, Ne'er feels the wants that pinch the poor, Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door, Embittering all his state." is as true in these days as it was in the days of the philosopher who wrote... | |
 | William Cleaver Wilkinson - Latin literature - 1885 - 372 pages
...always tempt the distant deep, Nor always timorously creep Along the treacherous shore. He that holds fast the golden mean And lives contentedly between...poor, Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door, Imbittering all his state. , The tallest pines feel most the power Of wintry blasts ; the loftiest... | |
 | Education - 1885 - 630 pages
...irreg. intrans., act., inf., près., gov. by 'descry.' 3. Paraphrase the following : — lie that holds fast the golden mean, And lives contentedly between...poor, Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door, Imbittering all his state. The man who is wise enough to be perfectly contented with a medium position... | |
 | American poetry - 1885 - 466 pages
...better fate for mine and me than I Could ever compass underneath the sky. CONTENTMENT. HE that holds fast the golden mean, And lives contentedly between...poor, Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door, Embittering all his state. BEYOND THE HAZE. A WINTER RAMBLE REVERIE. THE road was straight, the afternoon... | |
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He that holds fast the golden mean And lives contentedly between The little and the great Feels not the wants that pinch the poor Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door, Imbittering all his state. 
