 ... read'st this sullen writ, Which just so much courts thee, as thou dost it, Let me arrest thy thoughts ; wonder with me, Why ploughing, building, ruling, and the rest, Or most of those arts, whence our lives are blest, By cursed Cain's race invented...  Criticisms on the Bar: Including Strictures on the Principal Counsel ... - Page 295by John Payne Collier - 1819 - 308 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1851 - 778 pages
...COLLIER, BEDFORD, LAW, ASD SOME LATER WRITERS AOiIJ»T THE STAGE. " There's nothing simply good, nor 111 alone; Of every quality comparison The only measure is, and judge opinion" * THIS short, aphoristic passage, from the poems of an eminent and learned Dean of St. Paul's in the... | |
 | John William Cole - Theater - 1859 - 416 pages
...sciebam dubiam fortunam ease scenicam, Spe incerta certum mihi laborem sustuli." — TEBENTII HZCYRA. " There's nothing simply good nor ill alone ; Of every...only measure is, and judge opinion." — DR. DONNE'S POEMS. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. IL LONDON : RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET, in (SDrtmraiB to |)tr... | |
 | John William Cole - Theater - 1859 - 402 pages
...sciebam dublam fortunam ease scenicam, Spe incerta certain mihi laborem sustuli."—TERENTII HECYRA. " There's nothing simply good nor ill alone; Of every...quality, comparison The only measure is, and judge opinion."—DR. DoNNE'S PoBMS. IN TWO VOLUMES. . * >**'o',. t . VOL. I. "*',«.. ° ? \ - -" j" rf... | |
 | George Gilfillan - English poetry - 1860 - 396 pages
...lives are blest, By cursed Cain's race invented be, And blest Seth vexed us with astronomy. There 's nothing simply good nor ill alone ; Of every quality...Comparison The only measure is, and judge Opinion. MICHAEL DEAYTON, THE author of ' Polyolbion,' was Lorn in the parish of Atherston, in Warwickshire,... | |
 | John Skelton - 1879 - 932 pages
...whence our lives are blest, By cursed Cain's race invented be, And blest Seth vext us with astronomy. There's nothing simply good nor ill alone, Of every...comparison The only measure is, and judge, opinion. THE END OF THE PKOGBESS OF THE SK>Cl_ MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. SONGS AND SONNETS. THE FLEA. MARK but this... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1881 - 744 pages
...lives are blest, By cursed Cain's race invented be, And blest Seth vexed us with astronomy. There 's nothing simply good nor ill alone ; Of every quality...Comparison The only measure is, and judge Opinion. MICHAEL DRAYTON, THE author of ' Polyolbion,' was born in the parish of Atherston, in Warwickshire,... | |
 | John Donne - English poetry - 1895 - 326 pages
...lives are blest, By cursed Cain's race invented be, And blest Seth vexed us with astronomy. There 's nothing simply good nor ill alone ; Of every quality...comparison The only measure is, and judge, opinion. NOTES. NOTES. THE following notes consist mainly of what Donne well calls '' those unconcerning things,... | |
 | John Donne - 1896 - 350 pages
...whence our lives are blest, By cursed Casn's race invented be, And blest Seth vex'd us with astronomy. There's nothing simply good, nor ill alone ; Of every...Comparison The only measure is, and judge, Opinion. 520 SATIRES. SATIRE I. AWAY, them changeling motley humourist, Leave me, and in this standing wooden... | |
 | John Donne - 1896 - 348 pages
...whence our lives are blest, By cursed Cain's race invented be, And blest Seth vex'd us with astronomy. There's nothing simply good, nor ill alone ; Of every...Comparison The only measure is, and judge, Opinion. 520 SATIRES. SATIRE I. AWAY, thou changeling motley humourist, Leave me, and in this standing wooden... | |
 | William John Courthope - English poetry - 1903 - 590 pages
...cursed Cain's race invented be, And blest Seth vex'd us with astronomy. There's nothing simply good or ill alone ; Of every quality Comparison The only measure is, and judge, Opinion. Here we have plainly the utterance of a sceptic in religion, who, having thrown off the forms of authoritative... | |
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