 | Alexander Pope - 1848 - 642 pages
...208 Too rash for thought, for action too refined . A tyrant to the wife his heart approves : A rehel to the very king he loves; He dies, sad outcast of...state, And harder still ! flagitious, yet not great. Ask you why Wharton hroke through every rule ; 'Twas all for fear the knaves should call him fool.... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 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 out-cast...state, And, harder still ! flagitious, yet not great. " " This celebrated peer," says Lord Orford, " like Buckingham and Rochester, comforted all the grave... | |
 | George William F. Howard (7th earl of Carlisle.) - 1850 - 52 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' every rule ? 'Twas all for fear the knaves should call him fool." I... | |
 | George William Frederick Howard Earl of Carlisle - Slavery - 1851 - 54 pages
...half mankind, Too rash for thought, for action too refln'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' every rule ? 'Twas all for fear the knaves should call him fool." I... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1851 - 628 pages
...mankind, 20« 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 of each cburch and state, And harder still ! flagitious, yet not great. Ask you why Wharton broke through every... | |
 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...half mankind, Too rash for thought, for action too refin'd : A tyrant to the wife his heart approves ; e upon t8 * Ask you why Wharton broke through every rule ' 'Twas all for fear the knaves should call him foi> Nature... | |
 | Henry Schroder - Yorkshire (England) - 1852 - 430 pages
...half mankind, Too rash for thought, for action too rcfin'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' every rule? 'Twas all for fear the knaves should call him fool." I... | |
 | Henry Schroeder - 1852 - 424 pages
...can persuade; 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' every rule ? 'Twas all for fear the knaves should call him fool." I... | |
 | Edward Young - English poetry - 1852 - 528 pages
...contempt ; His passion still, to covet general praise ; His life, to forfeit it a thousand ways : ***** He dies, sad outcast of each church and state, And, harder still ! flagitious, yet not great." In regard to his connection with this man, and the patronage thus afforded him, we are to remember... | |
 | Poets, American - 1853 - 560 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 ? 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... 
