 | James Melville M'Culloch - 1831 - 250 pages
...heaped in one balance, and swinging from thence, Weighed less than some atoms of candour and sense ; — A first-water diamond, with brilliants begirt, Than...silver and gold would suffice, One pearl to outweigh — 'twas " the pearl of great price !" At last the whole world was bowled in at the grate, With the... | |
 | Samuel Putnam - 1831 - 236 pages
...grains of 'candor and sense ; A first water diamond, with brilliants 'begirt, Than one good potatoe, just washed from the dirt : Yet not mountains of silver and gold would 'suffice, One pearl to outweigh — 'twas the Pearl of great 'price ! Lastof all, the whole world was 'bowled in at the grate, With... | |
 | Jane Taylor - 1832 - 286 pages
...heaped in one balance, and swinging from thence, Weighed less than some atoms of candor and sense ; — A first-water diamond, with brilliants begirt, Than...to outweigh — 't was the "pearl of great price." At last the whole world was bowled in at the grate; With the soul of a beggar to serve for a weight,... | |
 | Jane Taylor - 1832 - 282 pages
...in one balance, and si\ aifting from thence, Weighed less than some atoms of candor and sense ?— A first-water diamond, with brilliants begirt, Than...•mountains of silver and gold would suffice, One pearl to outweigh—'t was the "pearl of great price." At last the whole world was bowled in at the grate; With... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1833 - 288 pages
...heaped in one balance, and swinging from thence, Weighed less than some atoms of candor and sense;— A first-water diamond, with brilliants begirt, Than...mountains of silver and gold would suffice, One pearl to outweigh—'twas ' the'pearl of great price!' At last the whole world was bowled in at the grate, With... | |
 | Author of The young man's own book - 1836 - 336 pages
...candour and sense ; — A first-water diamond, with brilliants begirt, Than one good potato just wash'd from the dirt ; — Yet not mountains of silver and gold would suffice, One pearl to outweigh— -'twas 'the pearl of great price !' At last the whole world was bowl'd in at the grate With the soul... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1837 - 492 pages
...atoms of candor and sense; A firs:-water diamond, with brilliants begirt, Than one good potatoejust washed from the dirt; Yet, not mountains of silver...to outweigh — 't was the " pearl of great price." At last the whole world was bowled in at the grate ; With the soul of a beggar to serve for a weight... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1837 - 416 pages
...some atoms of candor and sense ; A first-water diamond, with brilliants begirt, Than one good potatoe, just washed from the dirt ; Yet, not mountains of...silver and gold would suffice, One pearl to outweigh — 'twas the "pearl of great price." At last the whole world was bowled in at the grate ; With the... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1837 - 426 pages
...sense; A first-water diamond, with brilliants begirt, Than one good potatoe, just washed from the dirl ; Yet, not mountains of silver and gold would suffice, One pearl to outweigh — 'twas the "pearl of great price." At last the whole world was bowled in at the grate ; With the... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...atoms of candour and sense ; — A first-water diamond, with brilliants begirt, Than one good potatoe just washed from the dirt ; Yet, not mountains of...silver and gold would suffice, One pearl to outweigh, — 'twas "the pearl of great price." At last, the whole world was bowled in at the grate, With the... | |
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t was the "pearl of great price. " At last the whole world was bowled in at the grate, With the soul of a beggar to serve for a weight; When the former sprang up with so strong a rebuff, That it made a vast rent, and escaped at the roof... 
