 That every thing contains within itself The seeds and sources of its own corruption : The cankering rust corrodes the brightest steel: The moth frets out your garment, and the worm Eats its slow way into the solid oak ; But Envy, of all evil things the...  The British Essayists - Sida 161redigerad av - 1807Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1807 - 534 sidor
...That e\ery thing contains within itself Tiie seeds and sources of its own corruption: The cankeri.ig rust corrodes the brightest steel: The moth frets...evil things the worst, The same to-day, to-morrow, anil for ever. Saps and consumes the heart in which it lurks. In the fragment next ensuing an old man... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 316 sidor
...That every thing contains within itself The seeds and sources of its own corruption : The cankering rust corrodes the brightest steel: The moth frets...old man is reproved for the vice of covetousness; their is a delicacy in the manner of it, that well becomes both the age and condition of the speaker,... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 374 sidor
...That every thing contains within itself The seeds and sources of its own corruption: The cankering rust corrodes the brightest steel: The moth frets out your garment, and the worm pjats its slow way into the solid oak; But .Envy, of all evil things the worst, The same to-day, to-morrow,... | |
 | Cynosure - 1837 - 272 sidor
...but what is that to the ceaseless pride, envy, malice, and conceit of a little mind 1 THE cankering rust corrodes the brightest steel; The moth frets...ever, Saps, and consumes the heart in which it lurks. AMBITION is the dropsy of the soul, Whose thirst we must not yield to, but controul. How dreadfully... | |
 | 1840 - 298 sidor
...That every thing contains within itself The seeds and sources of its own corruption : The cankering rust corrodes the brightest steel; The moth frets out your garment, and the worm 5 Eats its slow way into the solid oak ; But Envy, of all evil things the worst, The same to-day, to-morrow,... | |
 | William Peter - 1847 - 562 sidor
...That every thing contains within itself The seeds and sources of its own corruption: The cankering rust corrodes the brightest steel ; The moth frets...for ever, Saps and consumes the heart in which it works. ADVICE TO THE COVETOUS. WEAK is the vanity, that boasts of riches, For they are fleeting things... | |
 | 1847 - 540 sidor
...For every thing contains within itself The seeds and sources of its own corruption ; The cankering rust corrodes the brightest steel ; The moth frets...for ever, Saps and consumes the heart in which it works. CUMBERLAND'S Menander. 17. Yet even her tyranny had such a grace, The women pardon'd all, except... | |
 | 1847 - 526 sidor
...For every thing contains within itself The seeds and sources of its own corruption ; The cankering rust corrodes the brightest steel; The moth frets...for ever, Saps and consumes the heart in which it works. CUMBERLAND'S Menander. 17. Yet even her tyranny had such a grace, The women pardon'd all, except... | |
 | 1850 - 310 sidor
...ENVY. EVERY thing contains within itself The seeds and sources of its own corruption ; * The cankering rust corrodes the brightest steel ; The moth frets...things the worst, The same to-day, to-morrow, and forever, Saps and consumes the heart in which it works. Written for the Mothers Assistant. THE FATE... | |
 | Cyclopaedia, Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854 - 762 sidor
...Kaleigh. For every thing contains within itself The seeds and sources of its own corruption; The cankering rust corrodes the brightest steel; The moth frets...for ever, Saps and consumes the heart in which it works. Cumberland, Envy's a sharper spur than pay, And, unprovok'd, 'twill court the fray. ****** Fools... | |
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