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A Poet! He Hath Put his Heart to School William Wordsworth	By precept only, and shed tears by...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Portrait Richard Brinsley Sheridan	Who rail by precept, and detract by rule, Lives there no character, so tried, so known, So deck’d with grace, and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Autograph John Greenleaf Whittier	To hold he scarce was able The first great precept fast, He kept for man the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Awake ye muses nine, sing me a strain divine Emily Dickinson	The life doth prove the precept, who obey shall happy be, Who will not serve the sovereign, be hanged on fatal...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ballade of Unfortunate Mammals Dorothy Parker	L'ENVOI...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Design a Design to Redesign a Design Shashikant Nishant Sharma 'साहिल'	It is something which helps precept Many students during the first few days The concept is a mere haze And you need training to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Don Juan: Canto the First George Gordon Lord Byron	And carry precept to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Durham Cathedral Letitia Elizabeth Landon	Of promise, precept, or belief divine : Then sounds arise, the echoes bear along Through the resounding aisles...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ecce Homo Charles Harpur	”...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Eloisa to Abelard Alexander Pope	From lips like those what precept fail'd to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Epistle To A Young Clergyman. Patrick Bronte	Though dangers lower, Example only can afford To precept...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Everyday Characters I - The Vicar Winthrop Mackworth Praed	And ending with some precept deep For dressing eels, or shoeing...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Explanation Of An Ancient Woodcut Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	Whence he was able to procure Example good and precept sure, Recounting all with truthful care, As though he had been present...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Falstaff's Lament Over Prince Hal Become Henry V Herman Melville	One I instructed, Yea, talked to -alone: Precept -example Clean away...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
From Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	Therefore in each heavy hour, Let this precept fill your heart: O'er each day will sorrow...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Genius Friedrich Schiller	Must I distrust the gently-warning impulse, the precept That thou, Nature, thyself hast in my bosom impressed, Till the schools have affixed to the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Godly Command Richard Newton Sherrer	Those who do not keep His precept, Does not know Him and a liar; They cannot righteously accept, The truth on eternal...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Hymn 115 Isaac Watts	But since the precept came With a convincing power and light, I find how vile I...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
In The Pass Of Killicranky William Wordsworth	--'Twas a day of shame For them whom precept and the pedantry Of cold mechanic battle do...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Lines Addressed To The Rev. J. T. Becher, On His Advising The Author To Mix More With Society George Gordon Lord Byron	I cannot deny such a precept is wise; But retirement accords with the tone of my mind: I will not descend to a world I...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Lines in Defence of the Stage William Topaz McGonagall	Because example is better than precept, And is bound to have a greater effect On the minds of theatre-goers in every...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Love Constrained to Obedience William Cowper	In bondage and distress; I toll'd the precept to obey, But toil'd without...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Love, and Be Wise John Boyle O'Reilly	Learning by strife; Seeking in unity Precept and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Oh Poetic Soul David Abraham	upon precept, edict upon...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Olney Hymn 54: Love Constraining To Obedience William Cowper	In bondage and distress; I toll'd the precept to obey, But toil'd without...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)