 | William Wordsworth - 1882 - 520 pages
...what in quality or act is best Doth seldom on a right foundation rest, He labours gcod on good to fix, and owes To virtue every triumph that he knows : —Who, if he use to station of command, Rises by open mean* , and there will stand space On honourable terms, or... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1885 - 300 pages
...Upon that law as on the best of friends ; Whence, in a state where men are tempted still To evil for a guard against worse ill, And what in quality or...is best Doth seldom on a right foundation rest, He labours good on good to fix, and owes To virtue every triumph that he knows : — Who, if he rise to... | |
 | William Wordsworth, William Angus Knight - 1888 - 396 pages
...Upon that law as on the best of friends ; Whence, in a state where men are tempted still To evil for a guard against worse ill, And what in quality or...is best Doth seldom on a right foundation rest, He labours good on good to fix, and owes To virtue every triumph that he knows : — Who, if he rise to... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1889 - 468 pages
...friends ; Whence, in a state where men are tempted still To evil for a guard against worse ill, 30 And what in quality or act is best Doth seldom on a right foundation rest, He labors good on good to fix, and owes To virtue every triumph that he knows : — Who, if he rise to... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1889 - 488 pages
...friends ; Whence, in a state where men are tempted still To evil for a guard against worse ill, 30 And what in quality or act is best Doth seldom on a right foundation rest, He labors good on good to fix, and owes To virtue every triumph that he knows : — Who, if he rise to... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 530 pages
...of friends; Whence, in a state where men are tempted still To evil for a guard against worse ill, 30 And what in quality or act is best Doth seldom on a right foundation rest, He labors good on good to fix, and owes To virtue every triumph that he knows; Who, if he rise to station... | |
 | Charles Wesley Emerson - 1915 - 138 pages
...Upon that law as on the best of friends ; Whence, in a state where men are tempted still To evil for a guard against worse ill, And what in quality or...is best Doth seldom on a right foundation rest, He labors good on good to fix, and owes To virtue every triumph that he knows : — Who, if he rise to... | |
 | Lane Cooper - 1917 - 330 pages
...Upon that law as on the best of friends ; Whence, in a state where men are tempted still To evil for a guard against worse ill, And what in quality or...is best Doth seldom on a right foundation rest, He labors good on good to fix, and owes To virtue every triumph that he knows: — Who, if he rise to... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - 1917 - 536 pages
...friends ; Whence, in a state where men are tempted still To evil for a guard against worse ill, 30 And what in quality or act is best Doth seldom on a right foundation rest, He labors good on good to fix, and owes To virtue every triumph that he knows ; Who, if he rise to station... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - 1918 - 986 pages
...Upon that law as on the best of friends ; Whence, in a state where men are tempted still To evil for a guard against worse ill, And what in quality or...is best Doth seldom on a right foundation rest, He labors good on good to fix, and owes To virtue every triumph that he knows; Who, if he rise to station... | |
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Tis he whose law is reason, who depends Upon that law as on the best of friends ; Whence, in a state where men are tempted still To evil for a guard against worse ill... 
