| 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, to shun contempt ; His passion still to covet general praise, His life, to forfeit it a thousand ways : Ask you why Wharton broke through ev'ry rule... | |
| Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...be a more proper expression than turn with, if the metre would admit it. K 2 9. His * 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... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 466 pages
...but admire, £sV.] What an able French writer obferves of Jllcibiades, may be juftly applied to Thus with each gift of nature and of art, And wanting nothing but an honeft heart ; Grown all to all, from no one Vice exempt ; And moft contemptible to fhun contempt ;... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1806 - 474 pages
...but admire, £sV.] What an able French writer obferves of AlclKades, may be jnftly applied to Thus with each gift of nature and of art, And wanting nothing but an honefl heart ; Grown all to all, from no one Vice exempt ; And moft contemptible to fliun contempt... | |
| John Bell - 1807 - 562 pages
...adores, With the same spirit that he drinks and whores ; Enough if all around him but admire, 1 90 Grown all to all, from no one vice exempt, And most contemptible, to shun contempt ;— 195 His passion still, to covet gen'ral praue; His life, to forfeit it a thousand ways ; — A... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...punk appland, and now the friar, Thus with each gift of Nature and of Art, And wanting nothing hut an honest heart ; Grown all to all, from no one vice exempt, And most contemptihle to shun contempt ; His passion still to covet general praise, His life to forfeit it a... | |
| Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1807 - 316 pages
...punk applaud, and now the friar. Thos with each gift of nature and of art, And wanting nothing hut an honest heart; Grown all to all, from no one vice exempt, And most contemptihle to shun contempt; I9t His passion still to covet general praise, His life to forfeit it... | |
| Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...and whores ; Enough if all around him but admire, And now the punk applaud, and now the friar. Thus with each gift of nature and of art, And wanting nothing...contemptible to shun contempt , His passion still to covet general praise , His life, to forfeit it a thousand ways ; A constant bounty, which no friend has made... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...and whores; Enough if all around him but admire, And now the punk appluud, and now the friar. Thus with each gift of nature and of art, And wanting nothing...contemptible to shun contempt , His passion still to covet general praise , Hii life, to forfeit it a thousand ways , A constant bounty, which no friend has made... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...ihcFrUr. Thus with each gift of nature and of art, A ud wanting nothing hut an honest heart ; < irown ife ere half its length was run, And rob a wretched brother of slim: contempt : His passion dill to covet gcn'ral praise, Hi1 life, to forfeit it a thousand wavs... | |
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