 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pages
...rash for thought, for action too refin'd A tyrant to the wife his heart approves ; A re Jel to th« very king he loves ; He dies, sad outcast of each...state, And, harder still ! flagitious, yet not great. Ask you why Wharton broke through every rule ? Twas all for fear that knaves should call him fool."... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 632 pages
...half mankind, 20t Too rash for thought, for action loo refinedA 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 rulej 'Twas all for fear the knaves should call him foot Nature... | |
 | Katherine Thomson - 1860 - 376 pages
...those memorable lines — A tyrant to the wife his heart approved, A rebel to the very king he loved ; He dies, sad outcast of each church and state ; And, harder still ! flagitious, yet not great.' Though it may be doubted if the ' lust of praise ' was the cause of his eccentricities, so much as... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 334 pages
...half 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...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.... | |
 | William Russell - Biography - 1864 - 324 pages
...half mankind, Too rash for thought, for action too refined : 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." There is nerve in these lines, but assuredly they have been much overrated. Pope was a great master... | |
 | Nassau William Senior - English fiction - 1864 - 538 pages
...mankind, Too rash for thought, for action too refin'd : A Tyrant to the wife his heart approves ; A Eebel to the very king he loves ; He dies, sad outcast of...state, And, harder still ! flagitious, yet not great. (Moral Essays, Ep. i.) Don Quixote is a boldly-drawn inconsistent character. He is a man of great good... | |
 | 1866 - 328 pages
...half 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...state, And, harder still ! flagitious, yet not great ! Ask you why Wharton broke through every rule 't 'Twas all for fear the knaves should call him fool.... | |
 | George William Frederick Howard Earl of Carlisle - 1866 - 656 pages
...half mankind, Too rash for thought, for action too refln'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."... | |
 | William Russell - Biography - 1866 - 436 pages
...half mankind, Too rash for thought, for action too refined : 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, And harder still I flagitious, yet not great." There is nerve in these lines, but assuredly they have been much overrated.... | |
 | William Russell - 1866 - 468 pages
...half mankind, Too rash for thought, for action too refined : A tyrant to the wife his heart approves, A rebel to the very king he loves ; He dies, sad outcast of each church and stale, And harder still l flagitious, yet not great." There is nerve in these lines, but assuredly... | |
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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... 
