 | Adolphus Alfred Jack - 1920 - 398 pàgines
...the knightly condition assigned to him by heaven. All states are fortunate to the contented heart : It is the mynd, that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happie, rich or poore. Meanwhile Calidore prospers in his suit ; poor Coridon, though, like the witch's son when propitiating... | |
 | J. D. White, John Hugh McQuillen, George Jacob Ziegler, James William White, Edward Cameron Kirk, Lovick Pierce Anthony - 1921 - 1432 pàgines
...MCRPHY BLDO. Hypnotic Therapeutics and Modern Dentistry. By JOHN W. DORLAND, DDS, Pasadena, Calif. "It is the mynd that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happie, rich or poore." —Spenser's "Faerie Queene." T mAKING for granted that the fear of pain is the average reason why... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1926 - 496 pàgines
...diffuse, As they doe know each can most aptly use : For not that which men covet most is best, Nor that thing worst which men do most refuse; But fittest...that they hold : each hath his fortune in his brest xxx. " It is the mynd that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happie, rich or poore; For some,... | |
 | 1922 - 1030 pàgines
...qualitie, it is in us to change it. — LYLY (ed. Bond) 1 p. 193 & 316. — Faerie Qveene 6. 9. 29— 30: each hath his fortune in his brest. It is the mynd,...maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happie. DRAYTON, Idea XXV1I1: I hold this maxim still: The circumstance doth make it good or ill. — (Cf.... | |
 | David R. Shore - 1985 - 200 pàgines
...diffuse, As they doe know each can most aptly use. For not that, which men covet most, is best, Nor that thing worst, which men do most refuse; But fittest...that they hold: each hath his fortune in his brest. (ix 29) arises if the impositions of fortune manifestly do not convey what "each can most aptly use."... | |
 | Brian C. Lockey - 2006 - 204 pàgines
...expresses envy for "this small plot of your dominion," Melibee corrects him by pointing out that all should "contented rest / With that they hold: each hath his...ill, / That maketh wretch or happie, rich or poore" (6.9.28, 29—30). For Melibee, the pastoral is a universal, available to every human heart regardless... | |
 | Thomas Herron - 2007 - 296 pàgines
...who is a positive example of someone inwardly content with what landholdings he has "inherited": for "fittest is, that all contented rest/ With that they hold: each hath his fortune in his brest" (VI.ix.25. 9; 29.9).4' "Fittest," that is, as long as that land is "inherited" by a pious man and its... | |
 | Jennifer C. Vaught - 2008 - 264 pàgines
...instructs Calidore about the power of the imagination to transcend imprisoning material conditions: "it is the mynd, that maketh good or ill, / That maketh wretch or happie, rich or poore" (30). 77 73 In "Home-Making in Ireland: Virgil's Eclogue I and Book VI of The Faerie Queene," Spenser... | |
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doe men The heavens of their fortunes fault accuse, Sith they know best what is the best for them; For they to each such fortune doe diffuse, As they doe know each can most aptly use: For not that which men covet most is best, Nor that thing worst which... 
