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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... "
Poetical Works: To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author - Page 278
by Alexander Pope - 1860
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: To which is Prefixed a Life ..., Volume 1

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1828 - 222 pages
...Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise ; Born with whate'er could win it from the wise, Women or fools must like him or he dies; Though wondering senates...parts so various aim at nothing new? He'll shine a Tufty and a Wilmot too; Then turns repentant, and his God adores With the same spirit that he drinks...
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The Poetical Works, Volume 2

Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 pages
...scorn and wonder of our days, • ISO Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise ; Born with whate'er could win it from the wise, Women and fools must like...spoke, The club must hail him master of the joke. Small parts so various aim at nothing new? He'll shine a Tully and a VVilmot too: Then turns repentant,...
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Holly-grove: An Epithalamic Satire : with Anecdotical Notes, Part I

Thomas Little - 1828 - 286 pages
...Pope's W n. Enough, if all around him but admire, And, now, the punk applaud, and, now — the friar, Then turns repentant, and his God adores, With the same spirit that he drinks, and whores. Line 127. And preaches to Archbishops Cant, and York. I mean to insinuate nothing, by the abbreviation,...
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The Companion, Volume 1

1828 - 482 pages
...beauty in the other sex, and the same 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 might,...
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The Companion, by L. Hunt

1828 - 454 pages
...other sex, and the same 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...
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A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art ..., Volume 11

Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 806 pages
...monarchy pale, On whose just sceptre hang* Europa's scale. Prior. To be fixed or suspended with attention. Though wondering senates hung on all he spoke, The club must hail him master of the joke. Pope. To have a steep declivity. Sussex marl shews itself on the middle of the fides of hanging grounds....
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The Works of Dugald Stewart: The philosophy of the active and moral powers ...

Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 662 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 him, or he dies." • * * * * " Ask you why Wharton broke through every rule, 'T was all for fear the knaves should call...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise ; Born with whate'er could win it from the wise, Women nnd the wound. As when the fig's prese'd juice, infused...curds coagulates the liquid stream, Sudden the fluid jokn. Shall parts so various aim at nothing now 7 He'll shine a Tully and a Wilmot too; Then turns...
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The works of Alexander Pope; with a memoir of the author, notes ..., Volume 2

Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 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...spoke, The club must hail him master of the joke. 185 Shall parts so various aim at nothing new ? He 'll shine a Tully and a Wilmot too : Then turns...
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The Poetical Works of A. Pope: Including His Translation of Homer , to which ...

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 502 pages
...Women and fools mnst like him, or he dies : Though wondering senates hung on all he spoke, The cluh lai whore* ; Enough if all around him hut admire, 190 And now the punk applaud, and now the !'....-. Thus...
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