 | Poets, American - 1853 - 472 pages
...Shall parts so various aim at nothing new ? He '11 shine a Tully and a Wilmot too. MSULAN IDYL. 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... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1854
...and whores ; Enough if all around him but admire, And now the punk applaud, and now the ftiar. 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 - 1854
...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...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... | |
 | Drawing-room sibyl, M. J. P. - 1855
...— Scott. 57 O 'tis a parlous boy, Bold, quick, ingenious, forward, capable. Shak&peare. 58 Blest with each 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. A fool, with more... | |
 | George William Frederick Howard Earl of Carlisle - Continuing education - 1856 - 128 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, George Gilfillan - 1856
...Avhores ; 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, His life, to forfeit it a thousand ways ; A constant bounty which no friend has made... | |
 | DR. WARBURTON - 1856
...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 waysj A constant bounty which no friend has made;... | |
 | Edward Young - 1856 - 516 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... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1857
...and whores: Enough if all around him but admire, And now the beast appeared, 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;... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1857
...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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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... 
