Thomas Urquhart (Томас Эркарт)

Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 25. That vertue is of greater worth, then knowledge. to a speculative Philosopher

WHy doe you study Morals, if you take
No paines t'abate your avarice, and lust?
For how can vertues definition make
You valiant, prudent, temperate, or just:
Jf you industriously purge not your mind
Of any vice, to which you are inclin'd?

1. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 41. Concerning those, who marry for beauty, and wealth without regard of vertue
2. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 13. What the subject of your conference ought to be with men of judgment, and account
3. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 29. A truely liberall man never bestoweth his gifts, in hope of recompence
4. Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 17. VVhy we must all dye
5. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 34. The misery of such, as are doubtfull, and suspi∣cious of their VVives chastitie

Распечатать (Print)

Количество обращений к стихотворению: 1204

Последние стихотворения

To English version