 Grown all to all, from no one vice exempt; And most contemptible, to shun contempt; His passion still to covet gen'ral praise, His life, to forfeit it a thousand ways; A constant bounty which no friend has made; An angel tongue which no man can persuade...  The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical ... - Page 371by John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1801Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1859 - 504 pages
...drinks and whores ; Enough, if all around him but admire, And now the punk applaud, and now the friar. lf y mnlle ; An angel tongue, which no man can persuade ! A fool, with more of wit than half mankind, Too... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 330 pages
...drinks and whores ; Enough if all around him but admire, And now the punk applaud, and now the friar. Thus with each gift of nature and of art, And wanting...vice exempt, And most contemptible to shun contempt ; l Philip, Duke of Wharton. a John, Earl of Rochester. His passion still to covet general praise ;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 632 pages
...drinks and whores Enough if all around him but admire, 191 And now the punk applaud, and now the friar. Thus with each gift of nature and of art And wanting...heart : Grown all to all, from no one vice exempt, • • > 4nd most contemptible, to shun contempt I ' Bis passion still, to covet general praise ,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 334 pages
...drinks and whores ; Enough if all around him but admire, And now the punk applaud, and now the friar. Thus with each gift of nature and of art, And wanting...vice exempt, And most contemptible to shun contempt ; 1 Philip, Einke of Wharton. 3 John, Earl of Rochester. His passion still to covet general praise... | |
 | William Russell - Biography - 1864 - 328 pages
...dies, Though wondering senates hung on all he spoke, The club must hail him master of the joke. ****** Thus with each gift of nature and of art, And wanting...; A constant bounty which no friend has made ; An angel-tongue which no man can persuade! A fool, with more of wit than half mankind, Too rash for thought,... | |
 | Nassau William Senior - English fiction - 1864 - 538 pages
...Pope. They suit his delight in contrast and antithesis. One of the most finished is that of Wharton. Thus with each gift of nature and of art, And wanting...most contemptible, to shun contempt ; His Passion strll, to covet gen'ral praise, His Life, to forfeit it a thousand ways ; A constant Bounty, which... | |
 | William Forsyth - 1864 - 350 pages
...characters, and that he himself at one time was almost deceived by the better qualities of his nature — Thus with each gift of nature and of art, And wanting nothing but an honest heart. He was of immense stature and prodigious strength. Like Saul, "from his shoulders upwards he was higher... | |
 | William Russell - Biography - 1866 - 436 pages
...wondering senates hung on all ho spoke, The club must hail him master of the joke. • • « • • Thns with each gift of nature and of art, And wanting nothing...His life, to forfeit it a thousand ways ; A constant bonnty which no friend has made ; An angel-tongue which no man can persuade I A fool, with more of... | |
 | George William Frederick Howard Earl of Carlisle - 1866 - 656 pages
...not ill suit the author of the speeches on Warren Hastings' trial, and " The School for Scandal."] Thus with each gift of nature and of art, And wanting nothing hut an honest heart, Grown all to all, from no one vice exempt ; And most contemptible, to shun contempt... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 520 pages
...drinks and whores; Enough, if all around him but admire, And now the punk applaud, and now the friar. Thus with each gift of nature and of art, And wanting...from no one vice exempt; And most contemptible to shtin contempt ; His passion still, to covet general praise, His life, to forfeit it a thousand ways... | |
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