 | Catherine Hyde marquise de Govion Broglio Solari - 1824 - 370 sider
...hollow deceit : • " Princes, like beauties, from their youth, Are strangers to the voice of Truth. Learn to contemn all praise betimes, For Flattery is the nurse of crimes. Friendship by sweet reproof is shown ; (A virtue never near a throne !) In courts such freedom must... | |
 | John Gay - 1840 - 170 sider
...arts of vice detest. Princes, like beauties, from their youth Are strangers to the voice of truth ; Learn to contemn all praise betimes ; For flattery is the nurse of crimes : Friendship by sweet reproof is shown (A virtue never near a throne) ; In courts such freedom must... | |
 | 1845 - 494 sider
...conceited and proud, there is Tittle hope of him. He is out of the right road, and is in great danger. " Learn to contemn all praise betimes, For flattery is the nurse of crimes." " Finery is a will o' the wisp often, to both boys and girls, and ought not to be followed. The love... | |
 | Frederick Bridges - 1862 - 340 sider
...baneful to the individual, except done with great discrimination. Indeed, we may say with the poet : " Learn to contemn all praise betimes, For flattery is the nurse of crimes." And it is a lamentable fact, that little else is made use of, from the very earliest childhood, by all... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1862 - 346 sider
...arts of vice detest ; Princes, like beauties, from their youth Are strangers to the voice of truth. Learn to contemn all praise betimes, For flattery is the nurse of crimes ; Friendship, by sweet reproof is shown (A virtue never near a throne) ; In courts such freedom must... | |
 | John Purdue Bidlake - 1863 - 224 sider
...under control. ' Oh man, degenerate man, offend no more ! Go, learn of brutes, thy Maker to adore !' ' Learn to contemn all praise betimes, For flattery is the nurse of crimes.' ' Be wise to-day : 'tis madness to defer !' ' Come and trip it as ye go, On the light, fantastic toe.'... | |
 | William Lennie - 1863 - 188 sider
...nothing to interrupt your public or private devotions, except the performance of some humane action6. "Learn to contemn all praise betimes, ' For flattery is the nurse of crimes7." Consider yourself a citizen of the world ; and deem nothing which* regards humanity unworthy... | |
 | William Lennie - 1864 - 192 sider
...nothing to interrupt your public or private devotions, except the performance of some humane action6. Learn to contemn all praise betimes, For* flattery is the nurse of crimes*. Recollect that you are a member of the human family ; and deem nothing which* regards humanity unworthy... | |
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Princes, like beauties, from their youth Are strangers to the voice of truth ; Learn to contemn all praise betimes ; For flattery is the nurse of crimes... 