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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, The first true gentleman that ever breath'd. "
The Retrospective Review - Page 312
1820
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Familiar Quotations ...

John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...mine arm should conquer twenty worlds, There 'sa lean fellow beats all conquerors. Old Fortunatus. 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 that ever breathed.1 The...
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Anecdote Biographies of Thackeray and Dickens

Richard Henry Stoddard - Novelists, English - 1875 - 348 pages
...circumstance, — by the throne, or facing thousands of his countrymen, who loved him, one and all, so well. " 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 that ever breathed.'' The...
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London Society, Volume 27

James Hogg, Florence Marryat - Periodicals - 1875 - 633 pages
...the word ' of Him whom grand old Dekkar thought it noimpiety — nor was it — to describe as — * 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 that ever breath'd.' 'What...
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Character

Samuel Smiles - Character - 1876 - 408 pages
...who benevolently inflicted upon the sufferers the disease from which they suffered.'' — JBrevia. " 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 that ever breathed." 1...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - Authors, English - 1876 - 870 pages
...'tis the soul of peace : Of all the virtues, 'tis nearest kin to heaven : It makes men look like gods. A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit ; The first true gentleman that ever breathed. The contrast...
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The Church quarterly review, Volumes 96-97

1923 - 826 pages
...Shakespearians when the pamphleteer and dramatist Dekker closes one of his plays with the reflection that the best of men That e'er wore earth about him was a sufferer, A soft, meek, patient, hnmble, tranquil spirit, The first true gentleman that ever breathed. Single...
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A dictionary of poetical illustrations

Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...the soul of peace : Of all the virtues 'tis the nearest kin to heaven ; It makes men look like gods : e ; and A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit, The first true gentleman that ever breathed. Decker....
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Carleton's Hand-book of Popular Quotations

Quotations, English - 1877 - 362 pages
...GENTILMAN. CHACCER, The Wife of Bath's Tale. — He is GENTIL that doth gentil deeds. — Ibid. — 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 that ever breathed. T. DEKKER,...
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Bards and blossoms; or, The poetry, history, and associations of flowers

Frederick Edward Hulme - Flowers - 1877 - 270 pages
...yon pale starwort nodding to the wind." 141. Of whom old Deckar quaintly and touchingly writes — " 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 that ever breathed." 142....
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The birthday book of flower and song

Alicia Amy Leith - Gift books - 1877 - 292 pages
...acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still. j. Fletcher. May 31st, 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 that ever breathed. Thomas...
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