 | James Flamank - 1833 - 436 页
...to which they may be subject, — " Be not over-exquisite To cast the fashion of uncertain evils ; For grant they be so, while they rest unknown, What...of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid ?" And Cicero remarks, — " Saepe autem ne utile quidem est scire, quid futurum est." Man is certainly... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 432 页
...savage heat? El. Br. Peace, Brother; be not over-exquisite To cast the fashion of uncertain evils: 360 For grant they be so, while they rest unknown, What...is such self-delusion! 365 I do not think my Sister BO to seek, Or so uuprincipled in virtue's book, And the sweet peace that goodness bosoms ever, As... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1834 - 364 页
...Good-natured Man. See Goldsmith's Essay, 230. Be not over exquisite To cast the fashion of uncertain evils ; For grant they be so, while they rest unknown, What...they be but false alarms of fear, How bitter is such self delusion'! MILTON. * I knew a man that had health and riches and several houses, all beautiful... | |
 | World - 1837 - 362 页
...the day is the evil thereof." — ' Be not over-exquisite To cast the fashion of uncertain evils ; For grant they be so, while they rest unknown, "What...grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid.' 3 There is no one precept more necessary to be observed by a Christian, in order to his comfort, than... | |
 | Cynosure - 1837 - 272 页
...fashion of uncertain evils; For grant they be so, while they rest unknown; Why need a man fnrstall his date of grief And run to meet what he would most avoid ? ANXIETY is the poison of human life. It is the parent of many sins, and of more miseries. In a world... | |
 | John Milton - 1838 - 496 页
...savage heat ? 1 BR. Peace, Brother, be not over-exquisite To cast the fashion of uncertain evils ; 360 For grant they be so, while they rest unknown, What...false alarms of fear, How bitter is such self-delusion ! 366 I do not think my Sister so to seek, Or so unprincipled in virtue's book, And the sweet peace... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 页
...Good-natured Man. See Goldsmith's Essay, 230. Be not over exquisite To cast the fashion of uncertain evils ; For grant they be so, while they rest unknown, What...false alarms of fear, How bitter is such self-delusion 1 MILTON. * I knew a man that had health and riches and several houses, all beautiful and ready furnished,... | |
 | British and foreign young men's society - 1839 - 216 页
...morbid temperament: " Peace, brother: be not over exquisite To cast the fashion of uncertain evils: Tor grant they be so; while they rest unknown, What need...alarms of fear, How bitter is such self-delusion!" He then proceeds further to extol the dignity and strength of virtue : " Virtue could see to do what... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1839 - 374 页
...Good-natured Man. See Goldsmith's Essay, 230. Be not over exquisite To cast the fashion of uncertain evils ; For grant they be so, while they rest unknown, What...forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he Vould most avoid ? Or if they be but false alarms of fear, How bitter is such self-delusion 1 MILTON.... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 1839 - 864 页
...lavishness thine own and others wit, As if thou mad'st thy will. Herbert What need a man forrttall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid ? Jtfiton. 42? FOR Ií Jin covet death, u utmost end Of misery, so thinking to evade The penalty prooounced,... | |
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Peace, brother: be not over-exquisite To cast the fashion of uncertain evils; For, grant they be so, while they rest unknown, What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid? 
