 | George Burnett - 1807 - 508 sidor
...however misguided, his constancy and integrity are not the less objects of our admiration." — The following couplet, which is attributed to him, will...augments the pain. A large portion of the writings of sir Tho-r anas More are in Latin, of which a collection in folio was published at Basil, in 1566; and the... | |
 | 1812 - 156 sidor
...but mine still more unkind—- His Eve went with him, but mine says behind. CCLII. If evils come not, then our fears are vain ; And, if they do, fear but augments the pain. CCL1II. CCLIV. The Lover's Prologue. Kisses are prologues, which forerun A greater action to be done... | |
 | William Beloe - 1814 - 472 sidor
...of the more than philosophic indifference with which he went to his execution : If evils come not, then our fears are vain ; And if they do, fear but augments the pain. JOHN RAINOLDS. The fam,ous controversy between John Rajnohls and one of his brothers, wherein each... | |
 | General reader - 1827 - 246 sidor
...throughout, They swear it, till affirmative breeds a doubt. Cowper'i Conversation. If evils come not, then our fears are vain : And if they do, fear but augments the pain. 4 Sir Thomas More. PRAISE. — To bespeak praise is forever to be disappointed of it ; to fear it is... | |
 | 1829 - 488 sidor
...Peru, who will readily recognise the writer. VIATOR. ON FEAR. By Sir Thomas More. IF evils come not, then our fears are vain, And if they do, fear but augments the pain. 230 JWaunets& Customs of «U "Nations. SKIMJNGTON RIDING. (To the Editor of the Mirror.) I have been... | |
 | 1831 - 256 sidor
...like ?" " Like ?" quoth the clown; "'Twas like—to have blotim my cottage doum." If evils come not, then our fears are vain ; And if they do, fear but augments the pain. NOT MARRIED AT ALL. An Hibernian once, in a Limerick paper And her debts, sure, he never would pay.... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1836 - 302 sidor
...we should all of us do well to recollect the saying of Sir Thomas More, — " If evils come not — then our fears are vain, And if they do — fear but augments the pain." MEMORY. — Rochefoucauld says, " Every one complains of his memory, no one of his judgment." And why... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1836 - 426 sidor
...anticipations, we should all of us do well to recollect the saying of Sir Thomas More, " If evils come not — then our fears are vain, And if they do, — fear but augments the pain." MEMORY. — Rouchefoucauld says, " Every one complains of his memory, no one of his judgment." And... | |
 | Charles Henry Timperley - 1839 - 1266 sidor
...than philosophic indifference with which he went to his execution : — If evils come not, then oar fears are vain ; And If they do, fear but augments the pain. * In the 14th year of Henry VIII. sir Thomas More was speaker to the house of commons, and chancellor... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 sidor
...neither fight nor fly, But coward-like with trembling terror die. Shakspere. If evils come not, then oar fears are vain; And if they do, fear but augments the pain. Sir Thomas More. They that fear the adder's sting, will not Come near his hissing. Chapman. And, though... | |
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If evils come not, then our fears are vain ; And if they do, fear but augments the pain. 
