 | John Bell - English poetry - 1777 - 644 pages
...devil. In squand'ring wealth was his peculiar art : Nothing went unrewarded hut desert. 5(5o Beggar'd by fools, whom still he found too late ; He had his...from Court ; then sought relief By forming parties, hut could ne'er he chief : For, spite of him, the weight of hus'rtess fell 565 On Absalom, and wise... | |
 | John Dryden - English prose literature - 1800 - 712 pages
...peculiar art ; Nothing went,unrewarded — but desert : Beggar'd by fools, whom still he found top late, He had his jest, and they had his estate. He laugh'd himfcelf from court ; then sought relief By forming parties, but could ne'er be chief; For, spite of... | |
 | English poetry - 1801 - 416 pages
...devil. In squand'rng wealth was his peculiar art : Nothing went unrewarded but desert. $6* Beggar'd by fools, whom still he found too late ; He had his...could ne'er be chief: For, spite of him, the weight of bus'ness fell On Absalom and wise Achithophel : Thus, wicked but in will, of means bereft, He left... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 382 pages
...devil. Ill squandering wealth was his peculiar art ; Nothing went unrewarded, but desert: Beggar'd by fools, whom still he found too late ; He had his...forming parties, but could ne'er be chief: For, spite nf him, the weight of business fell On Absalom, and wise Achitophel: Thus, wicked but in will, of means... | |
 | Horace Walpole - English literature - 1806 - 498 pages
...squand'ring wealth was his peculiar ait, Nothing went unrewarded but desert. Beggar1 d by fools, when still he found, too late, He had his jest, and they had his estate." J * In the Epistle to Lord Bathurst. * [In a lampoon ascribed to Dryden, the writer says: " His grace... | |
 | John Dryden, Thomas Park - 1808 - 374 pages
...or devil. In squandering wealth was his peculiar art ; Nothing went uurewarded, hut desert: Beggar'd by fools, whom still he found too late ; He had his jest, and they had his estate. He langh'd himself from Court; then sought relief By forming parties, but could ne'er be chief: For, spite... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 482 pages
...or devil. In squandering wealth was his peculiar art; Nothing went unrewarded but desert. Beggared by fools, whom still he found too late; He had his jest, and they had his estate. He laughed himself from court; then sought relief By forming parties, but could ne'er be chief; For, spite... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 476 pages
...or devil. In squandering wealth was his peculiar art; Nothing went unrewarded but desert. Beggared by fools, whom still he found too late ; He had his jest, and they had his estate. He laughed himself from court; then sought relief By forming parties, but could ne'er be chief; For, spite... | |
 | 1809 - 402 pages
...they had his estate. He laugli'd himself from court ; then sought relief By forming parties, but rould ne'er be chief: For spite of him, the weight of business fell On Absalom an<ivi-e *ichitophel : Thus, wicked but in will, of means bereft, He left not faction, but of that... | |
 | Thomas Faulkner - Chelsea (London, England) - 1810 - 514 pages
...squandering wealth, was his peculiar art, Nothing went unrewarded but desert. Beggar'd by fools, when still he found, too late He had his jest, and they had his estate." Pope, in " The Epistle to Lord Bathurst," thus alt ludes to his death : " In the worst inn's worst... | |
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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 still he found too late ; He had his jest, and they had his estate. 
