 | G.W. Carleton & Co - 1878 - 360 trang
...And there's a lust in man no charm can tame Of loudly publishing our neighbour's shame ; On eagle's wings immortal SCANDALS fly, While virtuous actions are but born and die. STEPHEN HARVEY, Juvenal. Scarecrows. — A mad fellow met me on the way, and told me I had unloaded... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1881 - 738 trang
...44. There is a lust in man no charm can tame, Of loudly publishing his neighbour's shame ; On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly, While virtuous actions are but born and die. EleanoraHervey. SCABS. He jests at scars that never felt a wound. Sh. Rom. n. 2. SCENERY i. Distance.... | |
 | Charles James Dunphie - 1881 - 416 trang
...fiercely resolute. She has her reward in the grandeur and permanence of her achievements: — " On eagle wings immortal scandals fly, While virtuous actions are but born and die." The circumstantiality of the stories told by Scandalmongers, their particularity of detail, and their... | |
 | Holy thoughts - 1882 - 744 trang
...There is a lust in man no charm can tame — Of loudly publishing his neighbour's shame ; On eagle's wings immortal scandals fly, While virtuous actions are but born and die. — HARVEY. Scandal. — Truth and Falsehood in In every scandal there is the warp and the woof ; it... | |
 | lady Constance Eleanora C. Howard - 1882 - 254 trang
...' There is a lust in man no charm can tame, Of loudly publishing his neighbour's shame ; On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly, While virtuous actions are but born and die.' Harvey. >EXT day the gossips and scandalmongers had enough even to occupy and satisfy their venomous... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 trang
...And there 'sa lust in man no charm can tame Of loudly publishing our neighbour's shame : On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly, While virtuous actions are but born and die. Juvenal. Satire i WILLIAM WALKER. 1C23-1G84. Learn to read slow : all other graces Will follow in their... | |
 | Fortunate men - 1884 - 192 trang
...Discovery of a Great Advertiser. The road to fortune is through printers' ink. — TP BARNUM. Envy. Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of...neighbour, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair to rise in distinction by their virtues, are happy if others can be depressed to... | |
 | James Stanley Little - 1887 - 510 trang
...' There's a lust in man no charm can tame, Of loudly publishing our neighlxjurs" shame, On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly, While virtuous actions are but born and die." The concurrent vice of men here, namely, over-dressing and Bond Street lounging, are by no means made... | |
 | 1887 - 1332 trang
...And there's a lust in man no charm can tame Of loudly publishing our neighbor's shame ; On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly, While virtuous actions are but born and die. Stephen Hanky's Juvenat. 2. Every one that repeats it, adds something to the scandal. Oz-id. 3. Greatest... | |
 | Virginia Waddy - 1889 - 428 trang
...rashly charged the troops of Error, and remain as trophies unto the enemies of Truth. 4. On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly, While virtuous actions are but born and die. 5. In peace a charge, in war a weak defense. 6. Art may err, but Nature can not miss. 7. Fools admire,... | |
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And of those who, despairing to rise into distinction by their virtues, are happy if others can be depressed to a level with themselves, there are a number sufficient in every great town to maintain one of these courts by their subscriptions. 
