 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1817 - 490 pages
...the wife his heart approves ;• , ,- .r, ^ ^- ,\ff A rebel to the very king he loves ; , p,9T9i> ' He dies, sad outcast of each church and state, And,...great. Like Buckingham and Rochester, says lord Orford, 'np '* comforted all the grave and dull by throwing away the. brightest profusion of parts on witty... | |
 | James Norris Brewer - 1801 - 1208 pages
...refin'd ; A tyrant to the wife his heart approves, A rebel to the very king he loves ; He dies, lad outcast of each church and state, And, harder still, flagitious, yet not great. After the Duke's decease, Wooburn was sold to John Morse, Esq. whose niece and heiress was wife to... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...half mankind, Too rash for thought, for action too rcfin'd : A tyrant to the wife his heart approves; patriots with her spoils ? In vain at court the bankrupt...thankless country leaves him to her laws. The sense Ask you why Wharton broke through every rule ? 'Twas all for fear the knaves should call him fool.... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 402 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 through every rule ? 'Twas all for fear the knaves should call him fool.... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1854 - 580 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." * A few notes on this fine poetical description by Pope will afford a sufficient biography of the man.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 372 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 outcast...state, And, harder still ! flagitious, yet not great. 205 Ask you why Wharton broke thro' ev'ry rule ? Twas all for fear the Knaves should call him Fool.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 370 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 outcast...state, And, harder still ! flagitious, yet not great. 205 Ask you why Wharton broke thro' ev'ry rule ? 'Twas all for fear the Knaves should call him Fool.... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 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.... | |
 | 1854 - 718 pages
...action too refin'd : A Tyrant to the wife his heart approves ; A Rebel to the very king he lores ; He dies, sad outcast of each church and state, And, harder still ! flagitious, yet not great.' (Moral Essays, Ep. ip 193.) Don Quixote is a boldly-drawn inconsistent character. He is a man of great... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...half mankind, Too rash for thought, for action too reou'd : A tyrant to the wife his heart approves ; in the centre of his thin designs, Proud of a vast...Whom have I hurt ? has poet yet, or peer, Lost the ar 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... 
