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The General Biographical Dictionary:: Containing an Historical and Critical ... - Page 322
1817
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Gems of national poetry. Compiled and ed. by mrs. Valentine

Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 pages
...of the joke. Shall parts so various aim at nothing new? He 'll shine a Tully and a Wilmot too. 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 English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by ..., Volume 3

Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1881 - 632 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...
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The Works of Alexander Pope: Poetry

Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1881 - 570 pages
...of Wharton, prefixed to the edition of his works published in 1740. Grown all to all ; from no onef vice exempt ; And most contemptible to shun contempt...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...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 3

Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1881 - 608 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 but an honest heart ; IM lines were printed after ver. 171. Instead of " Search then," the reading was "Tis in," ie, 'Tis...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 3

Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1881 - 572 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 but an honest heart ; lines were printed after ver. 171. Instead of " Search then," the reading was "Tis in," ie, 'Tis...
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Belgravia: A London Magazine, Volume 43

1881 - 738 pages
...the joke. Shall parts so various aim at nothing new : He'll shine a Tally and a Wrilmot too. . . . with each gift of nature and of art, And wanting nothing but an honest heart ; • t • • A fool, with more of wit than half mankind, Too rash for thought, for action too refined,...
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Rambles Round Eton and Harrow

Alfred Rimmer - Eton (England) - 1882 - 378 pages
...various aim at nothing new ; He'll shine a Tully and a Wilmot too.:> BURIED SUMS OF MONEY. 49 . . . with each gift of nature and of art, And wanting nothing but an honest heart ; • • • • A fool, with more of wit than half mankind, Too rash for thought, for action too...
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Village London: The Story of Greater London, Volume 1

Edward Walford - History - 1884 - 628 pages
...of the joke. Shall parts so various aim at nothing new ? He'll shine a Tully and a Wümot too. Thus, with each gift of nature and of art, And wanting nothing...from no one vice exempt, And most contemptible to show contempt ; THE GARDENS OF ORLEANS HOUSE, 1882. balustrade, &c., gives access from the hall to...
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The Wits and Beaus of Society, Volume 1

Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton - Great Britain - 1890 - 332 pages
...Shall parts so various aim at nothing new ? He'll shine a Tully and a Wilmot too. • • • • 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 Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature ..., Volume 16

Richard Garnett - Anthologies - 1890 - 448 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...
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