 | Leigh Hunt - Humor - 1846 - 282 pages
...and whores fl 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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 410 pages
...the punk applaud, 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...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 - 1847 - 524 pages
...admire, #c.] What an able French writer observes of Alcibiades, may be justly applied to this nobleThus 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 general praise, His life, to forfeit it a thousand ways ; A constant... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pages
...and swears ; Enough, if all around him hut admire, And now the wench 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... | |
 | Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances) - 1849 - 322 pages
...dazzling necklace, admitted that she was the luckiest person in the world ! — CHAPTER III. Tims, -with each gift of nature and of art, And wanting...an honest heart; Grown all to all — from no one fault exempt, And most contemptible to shun contempt; Her passion still to covet general praise, —... | |
 | George William F. Howard (7th earl of Carlisle.) - 1850 - 52 pages
...not ill suit the author of the speeches on Warren Hastings's trial, and the School for Scandal.] 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 - 1850 - 510 pages
...whores ; 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...contemptible, to shun contempt ; His passion still, to covet general praise ; Ilia life, to forfeit it a thousand ways ; A constant bounty, which no friend has... | |
 | George William Frederick Howard Earl of Carlisle - Slavery - 1851 - 54 pages
...not ill suit the author of the speeches on Warren Hastings's trial, and the School for Scandal.] Thus with each gift of nature and of art, And wanting nothing...Grown all to all, from no one vice exempt ; And most contemptiblej to shun contempt ; His passion still, to covet general praise, His life, to forfeit it... | |
 | Edward Young - English poetry - 1852 - 528 pages
...wondering senators hung on all he spoke, The club must hail him master of the joke. * * % * * 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 : ***** He dies, sad outcast of each church... | |
 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...and whores ; Enough if all around him but admire, And now the punk applaud, and now the friar. Thus ent X * general praise ; His life, to forfeit it a thousand ways ; A constant bounty, which no friend has made... | |
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Grown all to all, from no one vice exempt; And most contemptible, to shun contempt: His passion still, to covet gen'ral praise, His life, to forfeit it a thousand ways... 
