 Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends ! Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The good great man ? Three treasures, love, and light, And calm thoughts regular as infant's breath : And three firm friends, more sure than day and night,...  Littell's Living Age - Pagina 1711851Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1869 - 204 pagina’s
...salary — a gilded chain — Or throne of corses which his sword hath slain ? Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends ; Hath he not always treasures,...three treasures, love, and light, And calm thoughts, regular as infant's breath ; — And three firm friends, more sure than day and night — Himself,... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 pagina’s
...voice, All colours a suffusion from that light. Dejection. An Ode. Stan2a 5. Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends ! Hath he not always treasures,...three treasures, love and light, And calm thoughts, regular as infants' breath ; And three firm friends, more sure than day and night, Himself, his Maker,... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1869 - 926 pagina’s
...grown dim with gazing on the pilot star. — Tennyson. GREATNESS AND FRIENDS. Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends ; Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The great, good man ? Three treasures, love and light And calm thoughts, regular as infants' breath ; And... | |
 | Francis Fisher Broune - 1869 - 420 pagina’s
...grown dim with gazing on the pilot star. — Tennyson. GREATNESS AND FRIENDS. Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends ; Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The great, good man ? Three treasures, love and light And calm thoughts, regular as infants' breath ; And... | |
 | 1869 - 372 pagina’s
...still must he not think himself alone. Coleridge finely says : " Greatness and goodness are not meiins but ends. Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The good, great maul Three treasures—Love and Light, And calm thoughts, regular as an infant's breath ; And three... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - 1870 - 416 pagina’s
...the Fifth and Octave. 7 ^t. 'A.-«> Examples. : ,.?'.'•--f. "What would'st thou have a great good man obtain? Wealth, title, dignity, a golden chain, Or heap of corses which his sword hath slain? \NGoodness and greatness are not means, but ends. Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pagina’s
...merits that which he obtains. For shame, my friend ! renounce this idle strain ! What wouldst thou lin@ 2 great good man ? Three treasures, — love, and light, And calm thoughts, equable as infant's breath... | |
 | Philip Colborne - 1871 - 168 pagina’s
...salary — a gilded chain, Or throne of corpses which his sword hath slain ? Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends. Hath he not always treasures,...three treasures, love, and light, And calm thoughts, regular as infant's breath ; And three firm friends, more* sure than day and night, Himself, his Maker,... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - 1871 - 590 pagina’s
...from the world of spiritc If any man obtain that which he merita, Or any merit that which he obtains. Goodness and greatness are not means, but ends ! Hath he not always treasure], always friends, The good great man ? — three treasures, love, and light, And calm thoughts,... | |
 | F M. S - 1872 - 290 pagina’s
...Convolvulus,' you know, but now it is a ' Gilly Flower'." CHAPTER II. JOHN WYNTER. " Greatness and goodness are not means but ends ; Hath he not always treasures,...three treasures, love and light And calm thoughts, regular as an infant's breath ? And three firm friends, more sure than day and night, Himself, his... | |
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