 It's wiser being good than bad; It's safer being meek than fierce : It's fitter being sane than mad. My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched ; That, after Last, returns the First, Though a wide compass round be fetched...  The Kappa Alpha Journal - Stran 2001894Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1896 - 496 strani
...passion-driven blackguard. Not a very interesting trio ! but upon them is based the conclusion — It's wiser being good than bad ; It's safer being...meek than fierce ! It's fitter being sane than mad. My own hope is a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched ; That after Last returns... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1864 - 266 strani
...couch and one clear nice Cool squirt of water o'er your bust, The right thing to extinguish lust! 7. It's wiser being good than bad; It's safer being meek than fierce : It's fitter being sane than mad. My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched ; That, after Last, returns... | |
 | 1865 - 550 strani
...whole, he stands calmly watching the world sweep by without a wish to guide or change its course. " It's wiser being good than bad, It's safer being meek than fierce, It's fitter being sane than mad." i There is the beginning and end of bis teaching ; while Euripides is wholly eaten np by the question,... | |
 | 1865 - 550 strani
...whole, he stands calmly watching the world sweep by without a wish to guide or change its course. " It's wiser being good than bad, It's safer being meek than fierce, It's fitter being sane than mad."i There is the beginning and end of his teaching ; while Euripides is wholly eaten up by the question,... | |
 | Association for the Advancement of Women - 1877 - 404 strani
...purifying." But, " 'Tis a man's immense mistake Who fashioned to use feet and walk, deigns crawl." " It's wiser being good than bad ; It's safer being meek than fierce; It's better being sane than mad; My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched... | |
 | Mary Cecil Hay - 1882 - 316 strani
...now. But even yet she could not fit that new expression to him, try as she would. 260 CHAPTER XV. " It's wiser being good than bad ; It's safer being...meek than fierce : It's fitter being sane than mad, My own hope is a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretch'd." llf R. PUGH, looking paler... | |
 | 1883 - 378 strani
...copper couch and one clear nice Cool squirt of water o'er your bust, The right thing to extinguish lust! It's wiser being good than bad ; It's safer being...meek than fierce : It's fitter being sane than mad. My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched ; That, after Last, returns... | |
 | English poets - 1883 - 364 strani
...couch and one clear nice Cool squirt of water o'er your bust, The right thing to extinguish lust! It 's wiser being good than bad ; It's safer being meek than fierce : It's fitter being sane than mad. My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched ; That, after Last, returns... | |
 | Robert Browning, Hiram Corson - 1886 - 398 strani
...couch and one clear nice Cool squirt of water o'er your bust, The right thing to extinguish lust ! It's wiser being good than bad • It's safer being...meek than fierce : It's fitter being sane than mad. My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched ; That, after Last, returns... | |
 | William Henry Thorne - 1886 - 194 strani
...him read till he understands Browning's " Apparent Failure," say even only the last verse, thus : " It's wiser being good than bad ; It's safer being meek than fierce : Jt's fitter being sane than mad. My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever... | |
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