 Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, He had not the method of making a fortune : Could love, and could hate, so was thought somewhat odd ; No very great wit, he believed in a God : A post or a pension he did not desire, But left Church and...  The Quarterly Review - Page 392edited by - 1914Full view - About this book
 | History - 1778 - 626 pages
...love and could hate, so was thought somewhat'octdj No VERY GREAT WIT, HE BEUF.V'D H« A GoD. A post or a pension he did not desire, But left church and state to Charles Towiibhend and Squire. This last line needs no comment for readers of the présent tirar, and л tun... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 pages
...love, and could hate, so was thought somewhat odd ; No VERY GREAT WlT, HE BELIE V*D IN A GoD. A Post or a Pension he did not desire, But left Church and State to Charles Townshend and Squire. THE FOUR FOLLOWING POEMS, ATTRIBUTED TO MR. GRAY, WERE NEVER BEFORE COLLECTED. [The first of these... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 pages
...love, and could hate, so was thought somewhat odd; No VERY GREAT WlT, HE BELIEv'o IN A GOD. A Post or a Pension he did not desire, But left Church and State to Charles Townshend and Squire [54]. POEMS: ADDRESSED TO, AND IN MEMORY OF, MR. GRAY. [EXCEPT THE SECOND AND EIGHTH, NONE OF THESE... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1804 - 224 pages
...love, and could hate, so was thought somewhat odd; No VERY GREAT WlT, HE BELIEv'D IN A GoD. A Post or a Pension he did not desire, But left Church and State to Charles Townshend and Squire [54]. [54]At that time Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, and afterwards bishop of St. David's.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...love and could hate, so 'twas thought something odd ; Ko very great wit, he believ'd in a God : A post or a pension he did not desire, But left church and state to Charles Townsend and Squire. THE END. W. Wilson, Printer, St. John's Square. 1 ... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 pages
...love, and could hate, so was thought somewhat odd; No VERY GREAT WlT, HE BELJEv'D IN A GOD. A Post or a Pension he did not desire, But left Church and State to Charles Townshend and Squire. This last line needs no comment for readers of the present time, and it surely is not worth while to... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - English literature - 1820 - 548 pages
...love, and could hate, so was thought somewhat odd ; No VERY OREAT WIT, HE RELIEv'D IN A GoD. A post or a pension he did not desire, But left church and state to Charles Townshend and Squire. This last line needs no comment for readers of the present time, and it sureljr is not worth while... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1821 - 196 pages
...love, and could hate, so was thought somewhat odd ; No very great wit, he believ'd in a God : A post or a pension he did not desire, But left church and state to Charles Townshend and Squire*. AMATORY LINES. This jeu d'esprit first appeared in Warton's Edition of Pope. WITH beauty, with pleasure... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1821 - 192 pages
...love, and could hate, so was thought somewhat odd ; No very great wit, he believ'd in a God : A post or a pension he did not desire. But left church and state to Charles Townshend and Squire *. « Squire] At that time Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, and afterwards Bishop of St. David's.... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1822 - 584 pages
...love and could hate, so was thought somewhat odd ; No VEttY GBEAT WlT, HE BEUEY'D IN A GO1). A post or a pension he did not desire, But left Church and State to Charles Townshend and Squire. f * This was written in 1761, and found in one of Mr. Gray's pocket-books. t At that ti.ne Fellow of... | |
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