 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 636 pages
...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. Nature... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 642 pages
...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. Nature... | |
 | Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 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 every rule? 'Twas all for fear the knaves should call him fool. Nature... | |
 | Charles Churchill - 1880 - 740 pages
...to use his voice ; That, in all mean and low things great, lie had been bred at Billingsgate ; sso He dies sad outcast of each church and state, And harder still, flagitious, yet not great; Ask you why Wharton broke through every rule ; 'Twos all for fear that Knaves should call him Fool.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1881 - 572 pages
...mankind ; Too rash for thought, for action too refined ; A tyrant to the wife his heart approves ; s A rebel to the very king he loves ;' He dies, sad...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.7... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1881 - 632 pages
...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1881 - 608 pages
...rash for thought, for action too refin'd ; A tyrant to the wife his heart approves ; A rebel to tiie very king he loves ; He dies, sad out-cast of each...State ! And (harder still) flagitious, yet not great ! 204 Nature well known, no miracles remain ; Comets are regular, and Clodio plain. Yet in tlie search,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1881 - 570 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 out-cast of each Church and State I And (harder still) flagitious, yet not great ! jos Ask you why Clodio broke thro' ev'ry rule f 'Twas... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1883 - 782 pages
...doctrine orthodox By apostolic blows and knocks. 3679 Butler: Hudibras. Ft. i. Canto i. 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... | |
 | Edward Walford - History - 1884 - 628 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 every rule? 'Twas 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... 
