 | Charles Lamb - English drama - 1808 - 512 pages
...virtues, 'tis nearest kin to heaven ; It makes men look like gods. — The best of men That e'er wore earth about him was a Sufferer, A soft, meek, patient,...The first. true gentleman that ever breath'd. THE SECOND PART OF THE HONEST WHORE. BY THOMAS DECKER. Bella/rant, a reclaimed Harlot, recounts some of... | |
 | Walter Scott - English drama - 1810 - 618 pages
...the virtues, 'tis nearest kin to heaven ; It makes men look like gods. The best of men That e'er wore earth about him, was a sufferer; A soft, meek, patient,...tranquil spirit : The first true gentleman, that ever hrcathed. The stock of patience, then, cannot be poor; All it desires it has ; what monarch more ?... | |
 | Charles Lamb - English drama - 1813 - 502 pages
...virtues, 'tis nearest kin to heaven ; It makes men look like gods. — The best of men That e'er wore earth about him was a Sufferer, A soft, meek, patient,...; The first true gentleman that ever breath'd. THE SECOND PABT OF THE HONEST WHORE. BY THOMAS DECKERJ Bellafront, a reclaimed Harlot, recounts some of... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English drama - 1821 - 374 pages
...belief) one of whom says of him,> with a boldness equal to its piety : " The best of men That e'er wore earth about him, was a sufferer ; A soft, meek, patient,...tranquil spirit ; The first true gentleman that ever breathed." This was old honest Deckar, and the lines ought to embalm his memory to every one who has... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Dramatists, English - 1821 - 372 pages
...belief) one of whom says of him, with a boldness equal .to its piety : " The best of men That e'er wore earth about him, was a sufferer ; A soft, meek, patient,...tranquil spirit ; The first true gentleman that ever breathed." This was old honest Deckar, and the lines ought to embalm his memory to every one who has... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Dramatists, English - 1821 - 380 pages
...belief) one of whom says of him, with a boldness equal to its piety : " The best of men That e'er wore earth about him, was a sufferer; A soft, meek, patient,...humble, tranquil spirit ; The first true gentleman thai ever breathed." This was old honest Deckar, and the lines ought to embalm his memory to every... | |
 | Robert Dodsley, Isaac Reed, Octavius Gilchrist - English drama - 1825 - 442 pages
...virtues, 'tis nearest kin to heaven ; It makes men look like Gods. — The best of men That e'er wore earth about him, was a sufferer; A soft, meek, patient,...breath'd ; The stock of patience, then, cannot be poor; AH it desires it has; what monarch more? It is the greatest enemy to law That can be ; for it doth... | |
 | Charles Whitehead - 1843 - 926 pages
...which all passion, and all trace of passion, had for ever disappeared. The best of men That e'er wore earth about him was a sufferer, A soft, meek, patient,...spirit, The first true gentleman that ever breath'd. I must not be accused of irreverence when I say, that even like unto Him — that " best of men," did... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1843 - 588 pages
...Correggio, the watchword of every true philanthropist and lover of virtue. " The best of men That e'er wore earth about him was a sufferer ; A soft, meek, patient,...tranquil spirit : The first true gentleman that ever breathed." DECKER. Thus did one of our eloquent old dramatists sing about the Master, which may fitly... | |
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tis the soul of peace : Of all the virtues, 'tis nearest kin to heaven ; It makes men look like Gods. — The best of men That e'er wore earth about him, was a sufferer; A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit. 
