Thou shalt not kill; but needst not strive Officiously to keep alive : Do not adultery commit; Advantage rarely comes of it : Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat, When it's so lucrative to cheat: Bear not false witness; let the lie Have time on its own... A Parish of Two - Page 138by Henry Goelet McVickar, Price Collier - 1903 - 407 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1862 - 486 pages
...Adultery it is not fit Or safe (for woman) to commit: Thou shalt not steal ; an empty feat, When "t is as lucrative to cheat : Bear not false witness ; let...but tradition Approves all forms of competition." As a contribution to the history of the present war, the monograph of Mr. Woodbury has great value.*... | |
| 1863 - 530 pages
...serve to keep the world thy friend. Honour thy parents ; that is, all From whom advancement may befall. Thou shalt not kill ; but needst not strive Officiously...but tradition Approves all forms of competition.' — P. 5O. The next we are about to quote seems generally selected as the most beautiful, the most... | |
| Marlborough coll - 1885 - 514 pages
...at the expense of two ? No graven images may be Worshipped except the currency ¡ * * * * « * * * Thou shalt not steal, an empty feat When it's so lucrative...but tradition Approves all forms of competition." The best and also the best known of Clough's lighter poems is called The Bothie of Го&ег-по-июйЛ... | |
| 1869 - 654 pages
...serve to keep the world thy friend: Honour thy parents; that is, all From whom advancement may befall: Thou shalt not kill; but need'st not strive Officiously...but tradition Approves all forms of competition.' In the last few years of Ms life the character of Clough was somewhat smoothed down, so to speak; his... | |
| Arthur Hugh Clough - 1869 - 520 pages
...not adultery commit ; Advantage rarely comes of it : Thou shalt not steal ; an empty feat, When it 's so lucrative to cheat : Bear not false witness ; let...covet, but tradition Approves all forms of competition. THE QUESTIONING SPIRIT. THE human spirits saw I on a day, Sitting and looking each a different way... | |
| Arthur Hugh Clough - 1869 - 518 pages
...not adultery commit ; Advantage rarely comes of it : Thou shalt not steal ; an empty feat, When it 's so lucrative to cheat : Bear not false witness ; let...covet, but tradition Approves all forms of competition. THE QUESTIONING SPIRIT. THE human spirits saw I on a day, Sitting and looking each a different way... | |
| 1910 - 1076 pages
...strive Officiously to keep alive: Do not adultery commit ; Advantage rarely comes of it: Thou shall not steal ; an empty feat, When it's so lucrative...but tradition Approves all forms of competition." The only effective answer to the question whether the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule are a practicable... | |
| 1872 - 710 pages
...Adultery it is not fit Or safe (for woman) to commit : Thou shalt not steal, an empty feat, When 'tis own sweetness seems around it thrown. Abide in me....heard thy voice and felt thy power : Then evil lost Arthur Hugh Clough. 743. DECAY, Example ot Cities have been, and vanished ; fanes have sunk, Heaped... | |
| 1873 - 848 pages
...an empty feat When 'tis so lucrative to cheat ; Bear not false witness, let the lie Have time on Us own wings to fly ; Thou shalt not covet, but tradition Approves all forms of— competition I " The reader must not hastily credit Clough with any thing akin to the bold infidelity of a Voltaire,... | |
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