 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - 914 páginas
...pride, The modest wants of every day The toil of every day supplied. " His virtues walked their narrow round, Nor made a pause, nor left a void ; And sure...Eternal Master found His single talent well employed." Whose name looks the brightest now, that of Queensberry the wealthy duke, or Selwyn the wit, or Levett... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 652 páginas
...pride; The modest wants of every day The toil of every day supply'd. His virtues walk'd their narrow round, Nor made a pause, nor left a void ; And sure the Eternal Master found His single talent well eirlploy'd. The busy day, the peaceful night4, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by; His frame was firm, his... | |
 | 1901 - 462 páginas
...not fear to employ it in that most touching poem, Xfevett's epitaph: His virtues walked their narrow round, Nor made a pause, nor left a void; And sure...Eternal Master found His single talent well employed. — The Academy, London. TT is a regrettable fact that so-called English literature and papers, filled... | |
 | Charles Frederick Johnson - 1904 - 370 páginas
...summons mocked by chill delay, No petty gain disdained by pride — His virtues walked their narrow round, Nor made a pause, nor left a void. And sure...Eternal Master found His single talent well employed. The busy day — the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by; His frame was firm — his powers... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 726 páginas
...pride ; The modest wants of every day The toil of every day supply'd. His virtues walk'd their narrow round, Nor made a pause, nor left a void ; And sure the Eternal Master found His single talent well employ'd. The busy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by ; His frame was firm, his... | |
 | Fanny Burney - 1904 - 596 páginas
...Officious, Innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend. His virtues walked their narrow round, Nor made a pause, nor left a void ; And sure the Eternal Master found The single talent well-employed. buying a jack, because I think a jack is some credit to a house. Mr.... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1905 - 506 páginas
...pride, The modest wants of every day The toil of every day supplied, " His virtues walked their narrow round, Nor made a pause, nor left a void; And sure...Eternal Master found His single talent well employed." Whose name looks the brightest now, that of Queensberry the wealthy duke, or Selwyn the wit, or Levett... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1905 - 502 páginas
...away. Of him it may be truly said in the words of the sage — " ' His virtues walked their narrow round, Nor made a pause, nor left a void, And sure...Eternal Master found His single talent well employed.'"* It is unnecessary for me to go into all the details of my life while practising as a country surgeon.... | |
 | Lincoln (Mass.) - 1905 - 342 páginas
...sphere what Dr. Johnson wrote of another might be recorded of him : — "His virtues walk'd their narrow round, Nor made a pause, nor left a void : And sure the eternal Master found His single talent well employ 'd." The second pastor of the Lincoln church did more than make " two blades of grass to grow... | |
 | James Boswell - 1907 - 638 páginas
...drawing by C. Stanfltld, RA THE SUMMER-HOUSE AT THKALE PLACE,' STREATHAM His virtues walk'd their narrow round, Nor made a pause, nor left a void ; And sure...eternal Master found His single talent well employed. The busy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by ; His frame was firm, his powers were... | |
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His virtues walked their narrow round, Nor made a pause, nor left a void ; And sure the eternal Master found The single talent well employed. 
