 | Leslie Stephen - Great Britain - 1899
...mankind ; Too rash for thought, for action too refined ; A tyrant to the wife his heart approves ; A rebel to the very king he loves ; He dies, sad outcast...state, And, harder still, flagitious, yet not great. Ask you why Wharton broke through ev'ry rule ? Twas all for fear the knaves should call him fool. In... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1901
...half mankind ; Too rash for thought, for action too refined; A tyrant to the wife his heart approves; A rebel to the very king he loves ; He dies, sad outcast...state, And, harder still, flagitious, yet not great. Ask you, why Wharton broke through every rule? 'Twas all for fear the knaves should call him fool.... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1901
...half mankind, Too rash for thought, for action too refin'd : A tyrant to the wife his heart approves ; A rebel to the very king he loves ; He dies, sad outcast...state, And, harder still ! flagitious, yet not great. Ask you why Wharton broke thro' ev'ry rule ? Twas all for fear the knaves should call him fool. EPISTLE... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1901
...mankind ; Too rash for thought, for action too refined ; A tyrant to the wife his heart approves ; A rebel to the very king he loves ; He dies, sad outcast...state, And, harder still, flagitious, yet not great. Ask you, why Wharton broke through every rule? "Twas all for fear the knaves should call him fool.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1903 - 672 pages
...mankind, 200 Too rash for thought, for action too refin'd; A tyrant to the wife his heart approves; A rebel to the very king he loves — He dies, sad...state, And, harder still! flagitious, yet not great! Ask you why Wharton broke thro' ev'ry rule ? 'T was all for fear the Knaves should call him Fool. Nature... | |
 | Edward Codrington William Grey - Bloomsbury (London, England) - 1905 - 252 pages
...for action too refined. A tyrant to the wife his heart approved, A rebel to the very king he loved ; He dies, sad outcast of each Church and State ; And harder still, flagitious, yet not great. This northern portion of Charing Cross Road was made by the widening of Crown Street, its east side... | |
 | Bryan Dale - 1906 - 208 pages
...mankind ; Too rash for thought, for action too refined ; A tyrant to the wife his heart approves ; A rebel to the very king he loves ; He dies, sad outcast...State, And harder still ! flagitious, yet not great. Ask you why Wharton broke through every rule ? 'Twas all for fear the knaves should call him fool.... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1911 - 761 pages
...doctrine orthodox By apostolic blows and knocks. 3679 Butler: Hndibms. Pt. i. Canto 1. Line 192 OUTCAST. He dies, sad outcast of each church and state, And harder still, flagitious, yet not great. 3680 Pope : Moral Essays. Epis. i. Line 204 OUTLAW. He that is drunken Is outlawed by himself ; all... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - American literature - 1919 - 253 pages
...half mankind; Too rash for thought, for action too refined; A tyrant to the wife his heart approves; A rebel to the very king he loves; He dies, sad outcast...state, And, harder still ! flagitious, yet not great. Ask you why Wharton broke through ev'ry rule? *T was all for fear the knaves should call him fool.... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - American literature - 1919 - 253 pages
...half mankind; Too rash for thought, for action too refined; A tyrant to the wife his heart approves; A rebel to the very king he loves; He dies, sad outcast...state, And, harder still ! flagitious, yet not great. Ask you why Wharton broke through ev'ry rule? "T was all for fear the knaves should call him fool.... | |
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... 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... 
