 Thus with each gift of nature and of art, And wanting nothing but an honest heart ; Grown all to all, from no one vice exempt; And most contemptible to shun contempt; His passion still, to covet general praise, His life, to forfeit it a thousand ways...  Eccentric Personages - Page 180by William Russell - 1864Full view - About this book
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...one vire exempt; And most contemptible, to shun contempt ; 195 His passion still, to covet gen'ral praise; His life, to forfeit it a thousand ways; A constant bounty, which no friend has made ; An angel tongue, which no man can persuade ; A fool, with more of wit than half mankind* 20" Too rash... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1890 - 562 pages
...each gift of nature and of art, And wanting nothing but an honest heart; Grown all to all, from 110 one vice exempt; And most contemptible, to shun contempt:...ways; A constant bounty which no friend has made; An angel tongue, which no man can persuade; A fool, with more of wit than half mankind, Too rash for thought,... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Anglesey (Wales) - 1801 - 512 pages
...admire; And now the punk applaud, and now the friar. Thua * See description of Woburn, Bedfordshire. Thus with each gift of nature and of art, And wanting...ways; A constant bounty, which no friend has made ; An angel tongue, which no man can persuade; A fool, with more of wit than half mankind ; Too rash for... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Architecture - 1801 - 496 pages
...admire ; And now the punk ajiplaud, and now the friar f See description of TToliurn, Bedfordshire. Tims with each gift of nature and of art. And wanting nothing...; A constant bounty, which no friend has made ; An angel tongue, which no man can persuade ; A fool, with more of wit than half mankind ; Too rash for... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Anglesey (Wales) - 1801 - 474 pages
...whores; Enough, if all around him but admire; And now the punk applaud, and now the friar. Tlu* Thu, with each gift of nature and of art, And wanting nothing...thousand ways; A constant bounty, which no friend ha, made; An angel tongue, which no man can persuade; A fool, with more of wit than half mankind ;... | |
 | George Alexander Cooke - England - 1817 - 330 pages
...drinks and whores; Enough if all around him hut ailmire, And now the punk applaud, and now the friar. Thus with each gift of nature and of art, And wanting...forfeit it a thousand ways; A constant bounty, which no tYismd has made ; An angel tongue, which no man can persuade ; A fool, with more of wit than half mankind,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 232 pages
...no one vice exempt, And most contemptible to shun contempt ; 194 His passion still to covet gen'ral praise, His life to forfeit it a thousand ways ; A constant bounty which no friend has made ; An Angel tongue which no man can persuade ; A fool with more of wit than half mankind, 200 Too rash for... | |
 | Horace Walpole - English literature - 1806 - 540 pages
...and a Wilmot too : Enough if all around him but admire, And now the monk applaud, and now the friar Grown all to all, from no one vice exempt, And most...general praise, His life, to forfeit it a thousand ways : Ask you why Wharton broke through ev'ry rule ? "T was all for fear the knaves should call him fool."... | |
 | Horace Walpole - English literature - 1806 - 478 pages
...Wilmot too : Enough if all around him but admire, And now the monk applaud and now the friar. Crown all to all, from no one vice exempt, And most contemptible,...general praise, His life, to forfeit it a thousand ways : Ask you why Wharton broke through ev'ry rule ? "I" was all for fear the knaves should call him fool."... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...turn with, if the metre would admit it. K 2 9. Hts * Ver. 165. 9. His passion still, to covet gen'ral praise ; His life, to forfeit it a thousand ways ; A constant bounty, which no friend has made; An angel tongue, which no man can persuade; A fool with more of wit than half mankind ; Too rash for thought,... | |
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