Tis godlike magnanimity, to keep, When most provok'd, our reason calm and clear, And execute her will, from a strong sense Of what is right, without the vulgar aid Of heat and passion, which, tho' honest, bear us Often too far. The Genius of Masonry, Or a Defence of the Order: Containing Some Remarks on ... - Side 51af Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1828 - 96 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
| British drama - 1811 - 624 sider
...pour out A dire libation of Sicilian blood. 'Tis godlike magnanimity to keep, W hen most provoked, our reason calm and clear, And execute her will, from a strong sense Ot what is right, without the vulgar aid Of heat and passion, which, though honest, bears Often too... | |
| Louisa Sidney Stanhope - 1812 - 302 sider
...the slight and perishable'tenure of existence. CHAP. CHAP. VII. 'Tis Godiike magnanimity to keep Oar reason calm and clear, And execute her will, from a strong sense Of what is right. THoMSoN. Sweet Recreation bnrr'd, what doth ensue, But moody and dull Melancholy, Kinsman to grim and... | |
| Louisa Sidney Stanhope - 1812 - 296 sider
...recovered his lamp, and hastened to his apartment, CHAP. 'Tis God-like magnanimity to keep i . • r-Our reason calm and clear; And execute her will, from a strong sense Of wjiat is right. THOMSON . Why did I not pass away in secret, like the flower on the rock,, that lifts... | |
| Lucy Hake - 1828 - 506 sider
...the agonizing pangs of a fellow-creature call for commiseration. 101 102 NUMBER XVI. ON PASSION. " 'Tis God-like magnanimity to keep, When most provok'd,...without the vulgar aid Of heat and passion, which, tho' honest, bear us Often too far." t WHERE passion predominates over virtue and good sense, it may... | |
| Lucy Hake - 1828 - 334 sider
...agonizing pangs of a fellow-creature call for commiseration. NUMBER XVI. —ww«=«~ ON PASSION. u "I'is God.like magnanimity to keep, When most provok'd,...without the vulgar aid Of heat and passion, which, tho' honest, bear us Often too far." WHERE passion predominates over virtue and good sense, it may... | |
| 1828 - 356 sider
...manly temper, As well as manly firmness. — 'Tis Godlike magnanimity to keep, When most provoked, our reason calm and clear, And execute her will —...passion, which, though honest, bear us Often too far." Notwithstanding the heavy Joss which the country has sustained, in the death of Mr. Canning, there... | |
| Andrew Steinmetz - 1838 - 360 sider
...with manly temper, As well as manly firmness. Tis godlike magnanimity, to keep, 9 When most provoked, our reason calm and clear, And execute her will, from...without the vulgar aid Of heat and passion, which, tho' honest, bear us Often too far. Thomson. 95. Were honour to be scanned by long descent From ancestors... | |
| James Thomson - 1849 - 772 sider
...blood! I' i" ^wilike magnanimity, to keep, When most provoked, our Reason ealm and elear, And exeeute her will, from a strong sense Of what is right, without the vulgar aid Of heat and passion, whieh, though honest, bear us Often too far. Remember, that my house Proteets my daughter still; and... | |
| James Thomson - 1850 - 800 sider
...blood ! T u godlike magnanimity, to keep. When most provoked, our Reason ealm and elear, And exeeute her will, from a strong sense Of what is right, without the vulgar aid Of heat and passion, whieh, though honest, bear us Often too far. Remember, that my house Proteets my daughter still ; and... | |
| John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 sider
...and with manly temper As well as manly firmness : "Pis godlike magnanimity to keep When most provoked our reason calm and clear, And execute her will, from...without the vulgar aid Of heat and passion, which, tho' honest, bear us Often too far. THOMSON. THERE is a courageous wisdom ; there is also a false reptile... | |
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