 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1857 - 800 pages
...candor and sense ; — A first-water diamond, with hrilliants hegirt, 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 prioe." MOBAL. Dear reader, if e'er self-deception prevails, We pray... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1857 - 456 pages
...begirt, Than one good potato, just wash'd from the dirt; Yet not mountains of silver and gold could suffice, One pearl to outweigh, 't was the pearl of great price. 11. Last of all, the whole world was bowl'd in at the grate, With the soul of a beggar to serve for... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1862 - 558 pages
...balance and swinging from thence, Weighed less than a few grains of candor and sense ; A first water diamond, with brilliants begirt, . Than one good potato...from the dirt ; Yet not mountains of silver and gold could suffice ^ One pearl to outweigh — 'twas THE PEARL OF GREAT PRICE. 10. Last of all, the whole... | |
 | Edward Thomas Stevens - 1863 - 234 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 gate, With the... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1866 - 568 pages
...heaped in one balance, and swinging from thence, Weighed less than a few grains of candor 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." Last of all, the whole world was "bowled in at the grate, With... | |
 | Edward Thomas Stevens - 1866 - 280 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 gate, With the... | |
 | Charles A. Wiley - 1869 - 456 pages
...balance and swinging from thence, Weighed less than a few grains of candor and sense : A first water diamond, with brilliants begirt, Than one good potato, just washed from the dirt : Tet not mountains of silver and gold could suffice, One pearl to outweigh, 'twas the pearl of great... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...curl, All heaped in one balance and swinging from thence, Weighedlessthanafewgrainsof candorandsense ; ጀc could suffice One pearl to outweigh, — 't was THE PEARL OF GREAT PRICE. Last of all, the whole world... | |
 | 1872 - 710 pages
...thence, All heaped in one balance and swinging Weighed less than a few grains of candor and sense; d these assume bat valor's excrement, To render them redoubted. Look on beauty, dût ; [suffice Yet not mountains of silver and gold could One pearl to outweigh, — 'twas THE PEARL... | |
 | John Celivergos Zachos - 1873 - 348 pages
...balance and swinging from thence, Weighed less than a few grains of candor and sense ; A first water diamond, with brilliants begirt, Than one good potato,...from the dirt: Yet not mountains of silver and gold could suffice, One pearl to outweigh,—'twas THE PEARL OF GREAT PRICE. Last of all, the whole world... | |
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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... 
