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" Refuse his age the needful hours of rest? Punish a body which he could not please, Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease? And all to leave what with his toil he won To that unfeathered two-legged thing, a son, Got, while his soul did huddled notions... "
The Lives of All the Earls and Dukes of Devonshire: Descended from the ... - Page 83
by Joseph Grove - 1764 - 492 pages
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The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 11

Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 410 pages
...hours of rest ? Punish a body which he could not please ; Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease ? And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd, two-legg'd thing, a son ; Got while his soul did huddled notions try, And born a shapeless...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 10

Scotland - 1821 - 800 pages
...needful hours of rest, Punish a body which he could not please, Bankrupt of fife, yet prodigal of ease. And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd two-legged thing — a son ; Got while his soul did huddled notions try, And born a shapeless...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 10

England - 1821 - 778 pages
...needful hours of rest, Punish a body which he could not please, Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of case. And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd two-legged thing — a son ; Got while his soul did huddled notions try, And born a shapeless...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 4

Alexander Pope - 1822 - 468 pages
...Absalom and Achitophel; and particularly by four lines in it that related to Lord Ashley, his father: " And all to leave, what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd, two-legg'd thing, a son, Got while his soul did huddled notions try, And born a shapeless...
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The British poets, including translations, Volume 24

British poets - 1822 - 316 pages
...hours of rest ? Punish a body which he could not please ; Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease ? And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd, two legged thing, a son ; Got while his soul did huddled notions try, And born a shapeless...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 4

Alexander Pope - 1822 - 452 pages
...Absalom and Achitophel ; and particularly by four lines in it that related to Lord Ashley, his father : " And all to leave, what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd, two-Iegg'd thing, a son, Got while his soul did huddled notions try, And born a shapeless...
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New Elegant Extracts: A Unique Selection ... from the Most Eminent Prose and ...

Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1824 - 406 pages
...hours of rest ? Punish a body which he could not please ; Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease ? And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd, two legged thing, a son ; Got while his soul did huddled notions try, And born a shapeless...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...hours of rest ? Punish a body which he could not please ; Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease ? d, From unfeather'd two-legg'd thing, a son; Got while his soul did huddled notions try; And born a shapeless...
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A Biographical History of England: from Egbert the Great to the ..., Volume 4

James Granger - Great Britain - 1824 - 650 pages
...Shaftesbury, speaks with great contempt of Lord Ashley : " Bankrupt of life, and prodigal of ease: And all to leave what with his toil he won. To that unfeather'd two-legg'd thing a son." ABSALOM and Ann r. Here the poet evidently alludes to Diogenes's...
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Select Poets of Great Britain: To which are Prefixed, Criticial Notices of ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...hours of rest ? Punish a body whieh he eotdd not please ; Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease ? at unfeather'd two-legg'd thing, a son ; Got while his soul did huddled notions try ; And born a shapeless...
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