 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 656 Seiten
...bestow, You would reject with sick and coy disdain, And pant to see one cheerful face again. arts; This is a joy possess'd by few indeed ! Dame Fortune...worth a cordial hand to lend ; With better fortune to surprize a friend ; To cheer the modest stranger's lonely state ; Or snatch an orphan family from fate... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 648 Seiten
...Who daHy cultivate this pleasing view '. This is a joy possess'd by few indeed ! Dame Fortune has no many fools to feed, She cannot oft afford, with all...smil'd before. To sinking worth a cordial hand to lend j With better fortune to surprize a friend; To cheer the modest stranger's lonely state ; Or snatch... | |
 | H. M. Melford - 1841 - 466 Seiten
...easily spare one. Accept whate'er Aeneas can afford, Untouch'd thy arms, untaken be thy sword. (Dryden.) Dame Fortune has so many fools to feed, She cannot...store, To yield her smiles where Nature smil'd before. (Armstrong's Epistle.) How many men, in the common concerns of life, lend sums of money which they... | |
 | John Armstrong, John Dyer, George Gilfillan, Matthew Green - 1858 - 314 Seiten
...the godlike few, Who daily cultivate this pleasing view! This is a joy possessed by few indeedl 90 Dame Fortune has so many fools to feed, She cannot...with all her store, To yield her smiles where Nature smiled before. To sinking worth a cordial hand to lend; With better fortune to surprize a friend ;... | |
 | John Frederick Boyes - 1865 - 280 Seiten
...clever men from * " Fortune, who so blindly sheds Her brightest halo on the weakest heads." — MOORE. " Dame Fortune has so many fools to feed, She cannot...with all her store, To yield her smiles, where nature smiled before." ARMSTRONG. " Fortune makes folly her peculiar care." — CHURCHILL. Burleigh to Balzac,... | |
 | John Armstrong (Physician & Poet.) - 1880 - 692 Seiten
...the godlike few, Who daily cultivate this pleasing view! This is a joy possessed by few indeed! »o Dame Fortune has so many fools to feed, She cannot...with all her store, To yield her smiles where Nature smiled before. To sinking worth a cordial hand to lend; With better fortune to surprize a friend ;... | |
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With better fortune to surprise a friend ; To cheer the modest Stranger's lonely state ; Or snatch an orphan family from fate ; To do, possess'd with virtue's noblest fire, Such generous deeds as we with tears admire; Deeds that, above Ambition's vulgar... 