 | Henry Salt - 2000 - 198 pagina’s
...surpassing ability, and to him more than to any modern writer, can we apply Sir Henry Wbtton's stanza: This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise,...though not of lands, And having nothing, yet hath all. We have seen that he was not, like Emerson, a philosopher of wide far-reaching sympathies and cautious... | |
 | Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - 2007 - 778 pagina’s
...And entertains the harmless day OF LIFE With a well-chosen book or friend, — 138 | This man is free from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall;...And having nothing, yet hath all. SIR HENRY WOTTON ENGLISH (1568-1639) My heart leaps up when I behold My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the... | |
 | George Eliot - 2005 - 1416 pagina’s
...That serveth not another's will? Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his only skill? wear them.' 'How very puzzling!' said Miss Noble,...dear, you are joking. You would have better reason Dorothea's confidence in Caleb Garth's knowledge, which had begun on her hearing that he approved of... | |
 | Ahmad M. Kathrada - 2005 - 156 pagina’s
...of differences with friends and associates, of hideously unfair and wounding criticisms. -JC Smuts This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise,...And having nothing, yet hath all. - Sir Henry Wotton (Form of oath taking among Shoshone Indians is:) The earth hears me. The sun hears me. Shall I lie?... | |
 | 136 pagina’s
...early pray, More of his grace than gifts to lend, And entertains the harmless day With a religious book or friend. This man is freed from servile bands...And having nothing yet hath all. Sir Henry Wotton 1568-1639 The Character of a Happy Life 24. A person who has given up all desires for sense gratification,... | |
 | George Eliot - 2006 - 550 pagina’s
...serveth not another's will; Whose armor is his honest thought, And simple truth his only skill!" *** "This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise...having nothing yet hath all." "- SIR HENRY WOTTON." Dorothea's confidence in Caleb Garth's knowledge, which had begun on her hearing that he approved of... | |
 | Raymond Hicks - 2007 - 238 pagina’s
...louder than words. A suitable epitaph for Dad is provided by Sir Henry Wotton: A well-laden bus in 1ndia This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise,...And, having nothing, yet hath all. (Sir Henry Wotton) It occurred to me that many people, like my father, qualify for the above epitaph, meriting as much... | |
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This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands; And, having nothing, yet hath all. 
