To the third generation shall attest By silent eloquence to those that see-- Let not a mortal vaunt him overmuch.
When I perceive that men as plants increase, Cheered and checked even by the self-same sky: Vaunt in their youthful sap, at height decrease, And wear their brave state out of memory.
The words of St. Epiphanius plainly distinguish them: "Some vaunt the Gospel of Perfection .
Gnostics) there are who vaunt the possession of a certain fictitious, far-fetched poem which they call the Gospel of Perfection, whereas it is not a Gospel, but the perfection of misery.
But, whenever I sat talking with them, they would praise travel and proclaim its pleasures and vaunt the gains they had made therein; and they ceased not to urge me to accompany them in travelling over foreign parts.
No, stab the earl, and, 'fore the morning sun Shall vaunthim thrice over the lofty east, Margaret will meet her Lacy in the heavens.
His object is to vaunt the excellence of the education recommended by J.
Rome mayvaunt her Porcia, or her Cornelia; but the page of her history can produce no such exaltation of the female character as has been exhibited within the last ten years by French women.
Those who deny the right of a jury to protect an individual in resisting an unjust law of the government, deny him all legal defence whatsoever against oppression.
And the right is practically established only when and because the government no longer exists to call it in question.
He had ceased to shout his amorous songs, and vaunt his lustful triumphs.
The steel that he draws out from the severed heart of his victim he is ready to plunge into his own vitals: no other religion can vaunt as much of its priests.
Dionysodorus of Troezene proves him to be wrong, and restores the proverb to its original form: "Who vaunt their fathers, save the worst of sons?
No more my ears shall hear thee vaunt in skies Dares to meet Neptune, but I'll tell thy coward's tongue it lies.
Then Pallas prompted Diomed, lest his due worth's reward Should be impair'd if any man did vaunt he first did sheath His sword in him, and he be call'd but second in his death.
Thy vaunts urg'd him, but I may vaunt a higher pedigree From Jove himself.
But should I do such harm To her and duty, who is he, but Ajax, that can vaunt The fitting my breast with his arms; and he is conversant Amongst the first in use of his, and rampires of the foe Slain near Patroclus builds to him?
I thought his vauntfrom thence Had flow'd from glory.
He continued to vaunt his ambiguous “Von welltlicher Uberkeytt.
That the priests and monks should vaunt their religious exercises as spiritual treasures, he brands as a “Satanic lie.
Some Protestants indeed vaunt his system of ethics as the best ever known, and as based on an entirely “new groundwork.
They vaunt and menace in time of safety; none are so arrogant when the enemy is at a distance; but when the din of war thunders at the gates they hide themselves in terror.
Muza made no empty bravado nor haughty threat; he was more terrible in deeds than in words, and executed daring exploits beyond even the vaunt of the vainglorious.
No, stab the earle, and fore the morning sun Shall vaunt him thrice over the loftie east, Margret will meet her Lacie in the heavens.
For his purpose was tovaunt the superiority of the English magician above the tragically concluding German.
Thus condemning all others, they vaunt themselves alone as blessed.
It is wisdom not tovaunt oneself in prosperity, nor be overwhelmed with grief in adversity.
What art thou, that the world should point at thee, And vaunt and chide the weakness that they see?
Oh, make your girl a lady, an you list, But have more mercy on our wit than vaunt Your bargain as we burgesses who brag!
That orb cast off to chaos and disgrace, Why vaunt so much my unencumbered dance, Making a feat's facilities enhance Its marvel?
Once more--no idle vaunt 'Man comprehends the Sun's self!
Poor vaunt of life indeed, Were man but formed to feed On joy, to solely seek and find and feast; Such feasting ended, then As sure an end to men; Irks care the crop full bird?
Unfathomably framed Sister, I am not shamed {127} Before the cherubin To vaunt my flesh thy kin.
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