 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1843 - 488 pages
...! the scorn and wonder of our days, Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise; Born with whate'er could win it from the wise, — Women and fools must...the joke, Shall parts so various aim at nothing new ? — He '11 shine a Tully and a Wilmot too : Then turns repentant, and his God adores With the same... | |
 | Charles Churchill, William Tooke - 1844 - 392 pages
...Wharton, the scorn and wonder of our days, Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise, Born with whate'er could win it from the wise, Women and fools must like...nothing new, He'll shine a Tully and a Wilmot too ; Thus with each gift of nature, and of art, And wanting nothing but an honest heart, Grown all to... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Great Britain - 1845 - 432 pages
...beauty in the other sex, and a similar character is attributed to Wharton by Pope : " Though listening senates hung on all he spoke, The club must hail him master of the joke." Players are for going into the church — officers in the army turn players. For myself, do what I... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - Intellect - 1845 - 488 pages
...Wharton, the scorn and wonder of our days, Whose ruling passion was the LUST OF PRAISB. Born with whate'er could win it from the wise, Women and fools must like him, or he dies." The inordinate exercise of this propensity, as is correctly intimated by Mr. Stewart, tends to disorganize... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 290 pages
...the scorn and wonder of our days, Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise : Born with whate'er could win it from the wise, Women and fools must like...adores, With the same spirit that he drinks and whores :9 Enough if all around him but admire, And now the punk applaud, and now the friar. Thus with each... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - Humor - 1846 - 282 pages
...the scorn and wonder of our days, Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise : Born with whate'er could win it from the wise, Women and fools must like...adores, With the same spirit that he drinks and whores fl Enough if all around him but admire, And now the punk applaud, and now the friar. Thus with each... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 410 pages
...the scorn and wonder of our days, Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise : Born with whate'er could win it from the wise, Women and fools must like...the joke. Shall parts so various aim at nothing new ? He 'll shine a Tully and a Wilmot too. Then turns repentant, and his God adores, With the same spirit... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 416 pages
...the scorn and wonder of our days, Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise : Born with whate'er could win it from the wise, Women and fools must like...hung on all he spoke, The club must hail him master ofthejoke. Shall parts so various aim at nothing new ? He 'll shine a Tully and a Wilmot too. Then... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 pages
...scorn and wonder of our days, 180 Whose Ruling Passion was the lust of praise : Born with whate'er could win it from the wise, Women and fools must like him, or he dies ; Tho' wond'ring senates hung on all he spoke, The club must hail him master of the joke. 185 Shall... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pages
...the scorn and wonder of our days, Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise : Born with whate'er could win it from the wise, Women and fools must like...the joke. Shall parts so various aim at nothing new ? He 'll shine a Tully and a WILMOT p too. Then turns repentant, and kneels down to prayers With the... | |
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Wharton, the scorn and wonder of our days, Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise: Born with whate'er could win it from the wise, Women and fools must like him or he dies; Though wondering senates hung on all he spoke, The club must hail him master... 
