 tis the soul of peace ; Of all the virtues 'tis nearest kin to heaven ; It makes men look like gods. The best of men That e'er wore earth about him was a sufferer, A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit, The first true gentleman that ever breath'd.  The Retrospective Review.. - עמוד 310נערך על ידי - 1820תצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 דפים
...the soul of peace : Of all the virtues 't is nearest kin to heaven ; It makes men look like gods : The best of men That e'er wore earth about him was a sufferer, A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit, The first true gentleman that ever breath 'd. Dekker,Hor.... | |
 | Sir Thomas Malory - 1868 - 528 דפים
...words of touching tenderness and reverence, to point to a yet higher realisation of that ideal ; — ' The best of men That e'er wore earth about him, was a sufferer, A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit ; The first true gentleman that ever breathed.' And... | |
 | British dramatists - 1868 - 138 דפים
...'tis the soul of peace : Of all the virtues, 'tis nearest kin to heaven ; It makes men look like gods. The best of men That e'er wore earth about him was a sufferer, A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit; 'The first true gentleman that ever breath'd. Decker.... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1869 - 382 דפים
...the soul of peace; Of all the virtues, 't is nearest kin to heaven; It makes men look like gods. — The best of men That e'er wore earth about him was a Sufferer, A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit; The first true gentleman that ever breathed." A more... | |
 | Walter Keating Kelly - 1869 - 252 דפים
...is the soul of peace ; ff Of all the virtues 't is nearest kin to heaven : It makes men look gods. The best of men That e'er wore earth about him was a sufferer, A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit, — The first true gentleman that ever breathed. The... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 דפים
...ND though mine arm should conquer twenty -**• worlds, There 'sa lean fellow beats all conquerors. The best of men That e'er wore earth about him was a sufferer ; A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit. The first true gentleman that ever breathed.* The... | |
 | Walter Keating Kelly - 1861 - 256 דפים
...why, 'tis the soul of peao Of all the virtues 'tis nearest kin to heaven : It makes men look gods. The best of men . That e'er wore earth about him was a sufferer, A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit — The first true gentleman that ever breathed. The... | |
 | Blanchard Jerrold - 1872 - 502 דפים
...favourite library edition of his works, to which Her Majesty at once gave a place of hpn^it^ when he died. "The best of men That e'er wore earth about him was a sufferer ; A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit ; The first true gentleman that ever breathed." The... | |
 | 1872 - 556 דפים
...(whatever might be their belief), one of whom says of him, with a boldness equal to its piety : — " The best of men That e'er wore earth about him, was a sufferer ; A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit ; The first true gentleman that ever breathed.'* This... | |
 | Stallybrass - 1872 - 314 דפים
...is the soul of peace : Of all the virtues 'tis nearest kin to heaven ; It makes men look like gods. The best of men That e'er wore earth about him was a sufferer ; A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit, The first true gentleman that ever breathed." DECKER.... | |
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