 | English poetry - 1803 - 520 pages
...entitled the " Short Story," written by a Lady. R 3 Thou know'st, O LOVE ! how I have blest thee r How oft for thee my heart hath beat; How oft in sorrow...man inherits Honour or wealth with all his worth and painsj It sounds, like stories from the land of spirits, If any man obtain that, which he merits, Or... | |
 | English poetry - 1803 - 508 pages
...; But thou, methinks, art pure and holy, Exalted, rais'd, rerin'd ! EPIGRAMS. How seldom, friend I a good great man inherits Honour or wealth with all...the land of spirits, If any man obtain that, which be merits, Or any merits that, which he obtains. REPLY TO THE ABOVE. FOR shame, dear friend, renounce... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Ethics - 1812 - 466 pages
...the Proverb is current by a misuse, or a catachresis at least, of both the "words, Fortune and Fools. How. seldom Friend ! a good great man inherits Honour or wealth with ail his worth and pains! It sounds, like stories from the land of spirits, If any man obtain that which... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Ethics - 1818 - 390 pages
...at least, of both the words, fortune and fools. How seldom friend ! a good great man inherits Honor or wealth with all his worth and pains ! It sounds,...spirits. If any man obtain that which he merits, Or any merit that which he obtains. REPLY. For shame, dear friend ! renounce this canting strain What would'st... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1848 - 590 pages
...somewhat misanthropic quartette of Coleridge : — How seldom, friend, a good, great man inherits Honor or wealth, with all his worth and pains: It sounds like stories from a land of spirits, If any man obtain that which he merits, Or any merit that which he obtains. In view... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Critics - 1835 - 386 pages
...! " And the poet bade me preserve the verses for the sake of the criticism. — ED. AA 4 COMPLAINT. How seldom, friend ! a good great man inherits Honour...spirits, If any man obtain that which he merits, Or any merit that which he obtains. REPROOF. FOR shame, dear friend ! renounce this canting strain ! What... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1835 - 598 pages
...radical. Hear the dying poet's own comment on this and all other such mischances : — ' COMPLAINT. ' How seldom, friend, a good great man inherits Honour...spirits, If any man obtain that which he merits, Or any merit that which he obtains. ' REPROOF. ' For shame, dear friend ! renounce this canting strain! What... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Critics - 1835 - 372 pages
...motions making little speed, And to deform and kill the things whereon we feed. COMPLAINT. How sriJoin, friend ! a good great man inherits Honour or wealth...spirits, If any man obtain that which he merits, Or any merit that which he obtains. REPROOF. FoR shame, dear friend ! renounce this canting strain ! What... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1835 - 742 pages
...preserve the verses for the sake of the criticism. — ED. AA 4 360 COMPLAINT. How seldom, friend I a good great man inherits Honour or wealth with all...spirits, If any man obtain that which he merits, Or any merit that which he obtains. REPROOF. FOR shame, dear friend ! renounce this canting strain ! What... | |
 | 1835 - 616 pages
...bribe. " How seldom friend ! a good, great man inherits Honor or wealth with all his worth and paina ! It sounds like stories from the land of spirits, If any man obtain that which he merits, Or any merit that which he obtains. For shame, dear friend ! renounce this canting strain. What wouldst thou... | |
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How seldom, friend, a good great man inherits Honour or wealth with all his worth and pains ! It sounds like stories from the land of spirits, If any man obtain that which he merits, Or any merit that which he obtains. 
