 A soul supreme, in each hard instance tried, Above all pain, all passion, and all pride, The rage of power, the blast of public breath The lust of lucre, and the dread of death.  A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct ... - Page 257by Bernard Burke - 1866 - 636 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles N. Baldwin - Biography - 1850 - 458 pages
...acquitted by his peers; he died in 1724, and Pope has celebrated his memory in the following lines : " A soul supreme in each hard instance tried, Above...the blast of public breath, The lust of lucre, and the dread of death." This nobleman laid the foundation of the Harleian Collection of MSS. now in the... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Great Britain - 1851 - 534 pages
...immortals, 'tis a soul like thine; A soul supreme in each hard instance tried; Above all pain, all passion, and all pride, The rage of power, the blast of public breath, The lust of lucre, and the dread of death." representatives. According to ancient constitutional practice, there were frequent... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Great Britain - 1851 - 530 pages
...more : — " And sure if aught below the seats divine, Can touch immortals, 'tis a soul like thine; A soul supreme in each hard instance tried; Above all pain, all passion, and all pride, The rage of power, the blast of public breath, The lust of lucre, and the dread... | |
 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...immortals, 'tis a soul like thine: A soul supreme, in each hard instance tried, Above all pain, and passion, r lead To know, and knowing worship God aright, Is yet rcore kingly ; this attracts the dread of Death. In vain to deserts thy retreat is made ; The Muse attends thee to thy silent shade... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1853 - 506 pages
...immortals, 'tis a soul like thine ; A soul supreme in each hard instance tried, Above all pain, all passion, and all pride, The rage of power, the blast of public breath, The lust of lucre, and the dread of death." Never was praise more beautiful and more unjust. The sole attribute of a great... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1853 - 504 pages
...language : — " And sure if aught below the feats divine Can touch immortals, 'tis a soul like thine ; A soul supreme in each hard instance tried, Above all pain, all passion, and all pride, The rage of power, the blast of public breath. The lust of lucre, and the dread... | |
 | Charles Churchill, William Tooke - English poetry - 1854 - 380 pages
...in them: A soul supreme j in each hard instance tried, Above all pain* all passion, and all £ride, The rage of power, the blast of public breath, The lust of lucre, and the dread of death. I am ever yours, c. CHUKCfiiLt. The foregoing letters are almost the only ones... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1855 - 276 pages
...in thy fall. And sure if ought below the seats divine Can touch immortals, 'tis a soul like thine : A soul supreme, in each hard instance tried, Above...the blast of public breath, The lust of lucre, and the dread of death. In vain to deserts thy retreat is made ; The Muse attends thee to the silent shade... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1855 - 272 pages
...in thy fall. And sure if ought below the seats divine Can touch immortals, 'tis a soul like thine : A soul supreme, in each hard instance tried, Above...the blast of public breath, The lust of lucre, and the dread of death. In vain to deserts thy retreat is made ; The Muse attends thee to the silent shade... | |
 | Drawing-room sibyl - 1855 - 464 pages
...Reach out their bread to feed the crying orphan, Or mix their pitying with those that weep. Howe. 8 A soul supreme in each hard instance tried, Above all pain, all passion, and all pride. Pope. 9 You are proud and disdainful to fortune's gay child, But to poverty's... | |
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