 | Alexander Pope - 1854 - 340 pages
...With something new to wish or to enjoy! Railing and praising were his usual themes, And both, to show his judgment, in extremes : So over violent, or over...civil, That every man with him was god or devil. In squandering wealth was his peculiar art; Nothing went unrewarded, but desert. Beggar'd by fools, whom... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was every thing by starts, and nothing long. Part i. Line 557. So over violent, or over civil, That every man with him was God or devil. Part i. Line 645. His tribe were God Almighty's gentlemen. Part i. Line 868. Him of the western dome,... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1857 - 394 pages
...With something new to wish or to enjoy. Railing and praising were his usual themes; And both, to show his judgment, in extremes; So over violent, or over civil, That every man with him was god or devil. 19* In squandering wealth was his peculiar art; Nothing went unrewarded but desert: Beggared by fools,... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - Conduct of life - 1858 - 274 pages
...sundered filaments, and seek to re-unite them in an everlasting bond. LETTER III. . MANNERS AND DRESS. 80 over violent, or over civil, That every man with him was God or devlL Dr.* nin. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not expressed in fancy ; rich, not gaudy... | |
 | John Dryden - 1859 - 480 pages
...something new to wish, or to enjoy ! Railing and praising were his usual themes ; And hoth, to show his judgment, in extremes : So over violent, or over civil, That every man with him «•:•-• God or Devil. In squandering wealth was his peculiar art : Nothing went unrewarded hut... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pages
...With something new to wish or to enjoy ! Railing and praising were his usual themes, And both, to show his judgment in extremes ; So over violent, or over civil, That every man with him wot God or Devil. In squandering wealth was his peculiar art ; JVothing went unrewarded but desert.... | |
 | Goronwy Owen - Poets, Welsh - 1860 - 572 pages
...ai holl fympwyon eithafol i'w weled yng nghàn dd'jcban Dryden ar Dduc Buckingham, yr hwii oedd— "So over violent or over civil That every man with him was god or devil." Cynneddf beirniadaeth gan hyny yw olrhain aftan ragoríaethau ei ¡rwrthddrych, can gystled a'r diflygion... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pages
...thousand freaks that died in thinking. Railing and praising were his. usual themes, And both, to show his judgment, in extremes : So over violent, or over...civil, That every man with him was god or devil. In squandering wealth was his peculiar art ; Nothing went unrewarded but desert. Beggar'd by_ fools, whom... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1861 - 746 pages
...shallow celebrity of his day, — " Praising and railing were his usual themes, And both, to shew bis judgment, in extremes : So over violent, or over civil, That every man with him was God or devil." We saw that he had a very convenient " rule of thumb" by which he apportioned praise or blame, and... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1861 - 804 pages
...shallow celebrity of his day, — 11 Praising and railing were his usual themes, And both, to shew his judgment, in extremes : So over violent, or over civil, That every man with him wan God or devil." We saw that he had a very convenient " rule of thumb" by which he apportioned praise... | |
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Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman, who could every hour employ With something new to wish or to enjoy ! Railing and praising were his usual themes, And both, to show his judgment, in extremes : So over violent or over civil... 
