 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne, George Henry Warner - Anthologies - 1897 - 644 pages
...ignorance on these may light, Which, when it sounds at best, but echoes right; Or blind affection, which doth ne'er advance The truth, but gropes, and...all by chance; Or crafty malice might pretend this praise, And think to ruin, where it seemed to raise. These are, as some infamous bawd or whore Should... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 610 pages
...ignorance on these may light, Which, when it sounds the best, but echoes right ; Or blind affection, which doth ne'er advance The truth, but gropes, and...all by chance ; Or crafty malice might pretend this praise, And think to ruin where it seemed to raise. Rut thou art proof against them and, indeed, Above... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1899 - 546 pages
...ignorance on these may light, Which, when it sounds the best, but echoes right ; Or blind affection, which doth ne'er advance The truth, but gropes, and...all by chance ; Or crafty malice might pretend this praise, And think to ruin where it seemed to raise. But thou art proof against them and, indeed, Above... | |
 | Edward Arber - English poetry - 1899 - 336 pages
...Ignorance on these may light ; Which, when it sounds at best, 's but Echo's right ! Or blind Affection, which doth ne'er advance The truth ; but gropes, and...all by chance ! Or crafty Malice might pretend this praise ; And think to ruin, where it seemed to raise ! These are, as some infamous bawd, or whore,... | |
 | John Cann Bailey - Elegiac poetry - 1900 - 330 pages
...ignorance on these may light, Which, when it sounds at best, but echoes right ; Or blind affection, which doth ne'er advance The truth, but gropes, and...all by chance ; Or crafty malice might pretend this praise, And think to ruin, where it seem'd to raise. These are, as some infamous bawd, or whore, Should... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1901 - 1080 pages
...ignorance on these may light, Which, when it sounds at best, but echoes right, ' Or blind affection, praise, And think to ruin, where it seeui'd to raise : 230 PEHSOXA I. POEMS. 231 These are, as some... | |
 | William Willis - Dramatists - 1902 - 262 pages
...ignorance on these may light, Which, when it sounds at best, but eccho's right; Or blind Affection, which doth ne'er advance The truth, but gropes, and...all by chance; Or crafty malice, might pretend this praise, And think to ruin where it seem'd to raise. These are, as some infamous Bawd, or Whore, Should... | |
 | Mary Lloyd - Elegiac poetry - 1903 - 352 pages
...ignorance on these may light, Which, when it sounds at best, but echoes right ; Or blind affection, which doth ne'er advance The truth, but gropes, and...all by chance ; Or crafty malice might pretend this praise, And think to ruin when it seemed to raise. But them art proof against them, and, indeed, Above... | |
 | Richard Lewis Ashhurst - 1903 - 76 pages
...Ignorance on these may light, Which when it sounds at best, but echo's right; Or blinde Affection, which doth ne'er advance The truth, but gropes and...all by chance; Or crafty malice might pretend this praise, And think to mine, when it seemed to raise. ******* But thou art proof against them. * * *"... | |
 | Cecil Eldred Hughes - English literature - 1904 - 368 pages
...Ignorance on these may light, Which, when it sounds at best, but echoes right ; Or blind Affection, which doth ne'er advance The truth, but gropes, and...all by chance ; Or crafty Malice, might pretend this praise, And think to ruin, where it seem'd to raise . . . But thou art proof against them, and in deed... | |
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Or blind affection, which doth ne'er advance The truth, but gropes, and urgeth all by chance; Or crafty malice might pretend this praise, And think to ruin, where it seemed to raise. 
