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The General Biographical Dictionary:: Containing an Historical and Critical ... - Page 322
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Broome, Pope, Pitt, Thomson

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 536 pages
...whores ; Enough if all around him but admire, 190 An:l 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...
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Poems

Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 pages
...and now the punk applaud and now the friar, Thus with each gift ofNature and of Art, . • No. 1?. 6 and wanting nothing but an honest heart; grown all...vice exempt, and most contemptible to shun contempt; 195 his passion still to covet gen'ral praise, his life to forfeit it a thousand ways ; a constant...
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Poems by Cowley, Waller, Butler, Denham, Dryden, and Pomfret, Issues 77-79

Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 pages
...iy<) and now the punk applaud and now the friar. Thus with each gift of Nature and o^ \tV, No. 7?. 6 and wanting nothing but an honest heart; grown all...vice exempt, and most contemptible to shun contempt; 195 his passion still to covet gen'ral praise, his life to forfeit it a thousand ways ; a constant...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 12

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 pages
...whore* ; Enough if all around him but admire, 190 And now the punk applaud, and now the friar* Thus with each gift of Nature and of Art, And wanting nothing but an honest heart ; t "« ;> all to all, from no one vice exempt ; 'i"i most contemptible, to shun contempt } His passion...
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Poems by Cowley, Waller, Butler, Denham, Dryden, and Pomfret, Issues 77-79

Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 pages
...honest heart; grown all to all, from no one vice exempt, and most contemptible to shun contempt; lS5 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 fool...
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The works of Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory notes ..., Volume 3

Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...Second. Enough, if all around him but admire, 190 And now the punk applaud, and now the fryer. Thus with each gift of nature and of art, And wanting nothing...vice exempt ; And most contemptible to shun contempt; 195 His passion still, to covet gen'ral praise, His life, to forfeit it a thousand ways ; A constant...
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The Sylvan Wanderer;: Consisting of a Series of Moral ..., Volumes 1-2

Sir Egerton Brydges - Essays - 1813 - 338 pages
...ramble on Malvern Hills."» . > DN t < < < 7 In- 9mm of Ambition on tfjt ?{?ills of jftal&ern. Thus with each gift of nature and of art, And wanting nothing...contemptible to shun contempt; His passion still to covet general praise; h His life, to forfeit it a thousand ways; A constant bounty, which no friend has made;...
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General Biography: Or, Lives, Critical and Historical, of the ..., Volume 10

John Aikin - Biography - 1815 - 506 pages
...in which the poet evidently attempts to rival the /mm of Dryden, concludes with these lines : 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...
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The General Biographical Dictionary:: Containing an Historical and Critical ...

Biography - 1817 - 490 pages
...With the same spirit that he drinks and whores"; And now the punk applaud, and now the fryer. Thus with each gift of nature and of art, And wanting nothing...gen'ral praise, His life, to forfeit it a thousand ways ; An angel tongue, which no man can persuade - t A constant bounty, which no friend has made :...
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The General Biographical Dictionary, Volume 31

Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1817 - 490 pages
...now the ptmk applaud, and now the 'fryer. Thus with each gift ot nature and of art, • i• 'Iffo! And wanting nothing but an honest heart ; • .;•? Grown all to all, from no one vice cxem.pt ; . . > ,r And most contemptible, $o shun contempt } . ( (i n..j His passion still, to covet...
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