 Bartering his venal wit for sums of gold, He cast himself into the saint-like mould; Groan'd, sigh'd, and pray'd, while godliness was gain, The loudest bagpipe of the squeaking train.  The Life of John Locke - Page 137by Henry Richard Fox Bourne - 1876 - 506 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1896 - 794 pages
...the same follies too, Gloss'd over only with a saintlike show, Still thou art bound to vice. DRYDEN. Bartering his venal wit for sums of gold, He cast...gain: The loudest bagpipe of the squeaking train. DRYDEN. Fair hypocrite, you seek to cheat in vain : Your silence argues you seek time to reign. DRYDEN.... | |
 | George Edward Cokayne - Great Britain - 1896 - 480 pages
...speaking of him as " a vermin wriggling in th' Usurper's ear " adds (with bitter sarcasm) " Bart'ring his venal wit for sums of gold, He cast himself into...mould, Groan'd, sigh'd and pray'd (while Godliness was дом) The loudest bagpipe of the squeaking train." His love of money is thus mentioned by Pepys (9... | |
 | John Scott Clark - American poetry - 1900 - 886 pages
...began. Next this (how wildly will ambition steer !) A vermin wriggling in the Usurper's ear, Bantering his venal wit for sums of gold, He cast himself into...gain, The loudest bagpipe of the squeaking train." — The Medal. " Sir Fopling is a fool so nicely writ The ladies would mistake him for a wit ; And,... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - English poetry - 1900 - 328 pages
...— Next this (how wildly will ambition steer), A vermin wriggling in the usurper's ear, H.irtcring his venal wit for sums of gold, He cast himself into the saint-like mould ; Groaned, sighed, and prayed, while godliness was gain, The loudest bagpipe of the squeaking train.... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1909 - 1112 pages
...usurper's ear. 31 Bart'ring his venal wit for sums of gold, He cast himself into the saintlike mold; Groan'd, sigh'd, and pray'd, while godliness was gain,...The loudest bagpipe of the squeaking train. But, as Ч is hard to cheat a juggler's eyes, His open lewdness he could ne'er disguise. There split the saint;... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1909 - 1112 pages
...Next this, (how wildly will ambition steer !) A vermin wriggling in th' usurper's ear. 31 Bart'ring his venal wit for sums of gold, He cast himself into the saintlike mold; Groan 'd, sigh'd, and pray'd, while godliness was gain, The loudest bagpipe of the squeaking... | |
 | John Dryden - 1923 - 196 pages
...ere a man, So young his hatred to his Prince began. Next this, (how wildly will ambition steer !) 30 A vermin wriggling in the usurper's ear, Bartering...of gold, He cast himself into the saint-like mould ; Groaned, sighed, and prayed, while godliness was gain, The loudest bag-pipe of the squeaking train.... | |
 | Hugh Walker - Satire, English - 1925 - 348 pages
..."allows no sins but those it can conceal." With such hypocrisy Shaftesbury himself is charged: — " He cast himself into the saint-like mould ; Groan'd,...gain, The loudest bagpipe of the squeaking train." Dryden's prologue to Southerne's play The Loyal Prince extends the charge to the whole Whig party.... | |
 | Thomas Otway - Private presses - 1926 - 344 pages
...Godlinefs their Gains. Cf. The Medal/, 1682, 11. 31-35: A Vermin wriggling in th' Usurper's ear, Bart' ring his venal wit for sums of gold, He cast himself into the Saint-like mould; Groan' d, sigh'd, and pray'd, while Godliness was gain, The lowdest Bag-pipe of the Squeaking train.... | |
 | Norman Furlong - Satire, English - 1946 - 196 pages
...began.) Next this, (how wildly will Ambition steer!) A Vermin wriggling in th' Usurper's ear, Bart'ring his venal wit for sums of gold, He cast himself into...sigh'd, and pray'd, while Godliness was gain, The lowdest Bag-pipe of the Squeaking train.1 This appalling succession of blows, ruthlessly hammered home... | |
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