 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...half mankind, Too rash for thought, for action too rerin'd ; A tyrant to the wife his heart approves ; A rebel to the very king he loves ; He dies, sad outcast...state, And, harder still ! flagitious, yet not great ! Ask you why Wharton broke through every rule ?— 'Twas all for fear the knaves should call him fool.... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...Action too refin'd : A Tyrant to the wise his heart approves ; A Rebel to the very king he loves ; Mr h my view to either state ; Teach me to quit this transitory scene With decent nut great. Ask you why Wharton broke thro' ev'ry rule ? TV. .v all for fear the Knaves sliould call... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 pages
...mankind, 200 too rash for thought, for action too refin'd ; a tyrant to the wife his heart approves ; a rebel to the very king he loves; he dies, sad outcast...state, and, harder still ! flagitious, yet not great ! 205 Ask you why Wharton broke thro' ev'ry rule? 't was all for fear the knaves should call him fool.... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 pages
...mankind, 200 too rash for thought, for action too refin'd ; a tyrant to the wife his heart approves; a rebel to the very king he loves; he dies, sad outcast of each church and state, arid, harder still ! flagitious, yet not great ! 205 ^Vsk you why Wharton broke thro' ev'ry rule? ''t... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 pages
...too refin'd ; a tyrant to the wife his heart approves ; a rebel to the very king he loves; he flies, sad outcast of each church and state, and, harder still ! flagitious, yet not great ! 205 Ask you why Wharton broke thro' ev'ry rule? 't was all for fear the knaves should call him fool.... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 536 pages
...refm'd : A tyrant to the «il'e his heart approves ; A rebel to the very king he loves ; He dies, sail outcast of each church and state, And, harder still ! flagitious, yet not great. Ask you why Wliorton broke through every rule ) Twas all for fear the knaves should call him fool,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 pages
...mankind, 300 Too rash for thought, for action too rerin'd : A tyrant to the wife his heart approves ; A rebel to the very king he loves ; He dies, sad outcast bf each church and state, And, harder still ! flagitious, yet not great. Ask you why Wharton broke... | |
 | Biography - 1817 - 504 pages
...action too refin'd ; A tyrant to the wife his heart approves -T A rebel to the Tery king he loves i He dies, sad outcast of each church and state. And,...lord Orford, he " comforted all the grave and dull by tbrowing away the brightest profusion of parts on witty fooleries, dehaucheries, and scrapes, which... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...mankind, 2OO Too rash for thought, for action too refin'd : A tyrant to the wife his heart approves ; A rebel to the very king he loves ; He dies, sad outcast...state, And, harder still ! flagitious, yet not great. 205 Ask you why Wharton broke through ev'ry rule ? 'Twas all for fear the knaves should call him fooh... | |
 | John Aikin - Biography - 1815 - 506 pages
...mankind ; Too rash for thought, for action too refin'd ; A tyrant to the wife his heart approves ; « ' A rebel to the very King he loves ; He dies, sad outcast...state, And, harder still ! flagitious, yet not great. Whether Pope has not theorized too much in deducing all the inconsistencies and extravagancies of Wharton's... | |
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... 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; A fool, with more of wit than half mankind... 
