 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1901 - 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1903 - 704 pages
...whores; Enough if all around him but admire, 190 And now the Punk appland, and now the Friar. will; Thus with each gift of Nature and of Art, And wanting nothing...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... | |
 | Edward Codrington William Grey - Bloomsbury (London, England) - 1905 - 272 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... | |
 | Bryan Dale - 1906 - 230 pages
...of his imagination may have been lost ; he no more wrote for fame than he acted for it." • " 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... | |
 | John Lomas (traveller in Spain.) - Art - 1908 - 472 pages
...against us at Gibraltar in 1727. He was the Wharton whom Pope described as being endowed ' With every gift of Nature and of Art, And wanting nothing but an honest heart ; His passion still to covet general praise, His life to forfeit it a thousand ways ' — words which... | |
 | Walter Jerrold - Middlesex (England) - 1909 - 438 pages
...Richardson's Lovelace, was summed up with such satire as has but little in it of exaggeration : Thus with each gift of nature and of art, And wanting nothing...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... | |
 | George Paston - 1909 - 430 pages
...of the joke. Shall parts so various aim at nothing new ? Hell 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... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - American literature - 1919 - 336 pages
...Though wond'ring senates 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...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,... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - English wit and humor - 1919 - 334 pages
...Though wond'ring senates 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...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,... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - American literature - 1919 - 342 pages
...Though wond'ring senates 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...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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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... 
