 | Robert Southey - English poetry - 1807 - 472 pages
...weight Are far inferior to their show. Were I so tall to reach the pole, Or grasp the ocean with my span, I must be measured by my soul : The mind's the standard of the man. The Ant, or Emmet. THESE Emmets, how little they are in our eyes ! We tread them to dust, and a troop... | |
 | Walter Wilson - Church history - 1808 - 584 pages
...which produced a silent tdmira.tion : " Were I so tall to reach the pole, . " Or mete the ocean with my span, " I must be measured by my soul : " The mind's the standard of the mm." HOBS LYRICS, Falte Grtatneu. ' BURY-STREtT, ST. MARY AXE. Independent. there was a certain dignity... | |
 | John Sabine - Elocution - 1810 - 308 pages
...all his lands That wears a narrow soul. Were I so tall to reach the pole, Or grasp the ocean with my span, I must be measured by my soul : The mind's the standard of the man ! WATTS. Homer. „ . BE Homer's works your study and delight, Read them by day, and meditate by night... | |
 | 1831 - 492 pages
...opinion, so well expressed by Dr. Watts. " Were I as tall to reach the pole, Or grasp the ocean with a span, I must be measured by my soul ; The mind's the standard of the man!" For this reason we were rather pleased, than otherwise, to find so many of the lower orders availing... | |
 | Children's poetry, English - 1820 - 190 pages
...all his lands That bears a narrow soul. Were I so tall to reach the pole, Or grasp the ocean with my span, I must be measured by my soul : The mind's the standard of the man ! WATTS. S2 The Old Man's Corrfort*. THE OLD MAN'S COMFORTS, AND HOW HE GAINED THEM. " You are old,... | |
 | 1821 - 724 pages
...between the minds of men: — whether I be Englishman or Hottentot, a Laplander, or a Patagonia«, If I could stretch from pole to pole, And grasp the...as you observe, is a fine Roman one, and very like Csesar's ; but there is, I flatter myself, a much greater difference between our understandings. The... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...weight Are far inferior to their show. Were I so tall to reach the pole, Or grasp the ocean with my span, I must be measured by my soul: The mind's the standard of the man. TO SARISSA. AN EPISTLE. BEAR up, Sarissa, through the ruffling storms Of a vain vexing world: tread... | |
 | W. JILLARD HORT - 1822 - 156 pages
...heard in vain. THE TRUE MEASURE OF MAN. Were I so tall to reach the pole, And grasp the ocean with my span, I must be measured by my soul; The mind's the standard of the man. PUBLIUS SCIPIO. Publius Scipio, the illustrious Roman general, who delivered Italy from its dreadful... | |
 | 1824 - 56 pages
...silent admiration of his modesty and talents. " Were I so tall to reach the pole, Or mete the ocean with a span, I must be measured by my soul ; The mind's the standard of the man." Dr. Goldsmith.— The following announcement of the death of this eminent writer appeared in one of... | |
 | 1824 - 312 pages
...admiration of his modesty and talents. ' Were I so tall to reach the pole, Or mete the ocean with a span, must be measured by my soul ; The mind's the standard of the man." Dr. Goldsmith.— The follow ng announcement of the death of this eminent writer appeared in one of... | |
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Were I so tall to reach the pole, Or grasp the ocean with my span, I must be measured by my soul: The mind's the standard of the man. 
