 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...190 Whose life is healthful, and whose conscience clear, Because he wants a thousand pounds a-yeat. Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies. Fortune in Men has some small diff 'rence made, ipj One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade ;... | |
 | English poetry - 1800 - 322 pages
...human-kind, Whose life is healthful, and whose conscience clear, Because he wants a thousand pounds a year. Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies. Fortune in men has some small difference made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade; The cobler... | |
 | Mrs. Pilkington (Mary) - Women - 1804 - 276 pages
...attended with shame, when vice accompanies the actions of its possessor; for, as Mr. Pope justly observes, Honour and shame from no condition rise: Act well your part— there all the honour lies. PASSION AND ANGER. SEVn.MEKTS. It is much easier to check our passions in the beginning, than t* »toj)... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 232 pages
...190 Whose life is healthful, and whose conscience clear, Because he wants a thousand pounds a year ! Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies. Fortune hi Men has some small ciiirver.ee made, 19S One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade ;... | |
 | Poetry - 1806 - 330 pages
...human-kind, Whose life is healthful, and whose conscience clear, Because he wants a thousand pounds a year. Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies. Fortune in men has some small diff 'rence made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade ; The... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...wou'd, One they must want, which is, to pass for good. HONOUR consists in ACTING our PART "well. (POPE.) HONOUR and shame from no Condition rise : Act well your part, there all the honour lies. Fortune in Men has some small diff' rence made. One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade; The cobler... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1807 - 316 pages
...190 Whose life is healthful, and whose conscience clear, Because he wants a thousand pounds a year ! Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies. Fortune in men has some small difference made, 195 One flaunts in rags, one -flutters in hrocade; The... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1808 - 542 pages
...birthright for a savoury mess of pottage. A regular and virtuous education, is an inestimable blessing. Honour and shame from no condition rise : Act well your part ; there, all the honour lies. The rigour of monkish discipline often conceals great depravity of heart. We should recollect that... | |
 | George Gregory - Books and reading - 1808 - 352 pages
...on Man are the delineations of character, and of these there are none finer than the following : " Honour and shame from no condition rise ; " Act well your part, there all the honour lies. " Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made, 193 " One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade... | |
 | Charles James - 1808 - 318 pages
...£28 MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. f .' MERE ORIGIN WEIGHS NOTHING IN THE SCALE OF UNPREJUDICED ESTIMATION. i Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies. POPE'S ESSAY ON MAN. Ct quantum generi demas, virtutibus addas. HORACE. J. HE muse has said in honest... | |
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Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies. 
