 | Sir John Collings Squire - English literature - 1921 - 730 pages
...Wharton : Wharton, the scorn and wonder of our days, Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise : Thus with each gift of nature and of art, And wanting nothing...gen'ral praise ; His life, to forfeit it a thousand ways. Ask you why Wharton broke through ev'ry rule ? 'Twas all for fear the knaves should call him... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...Correggios, and stuff, He shifted his trumpet, and only took snuff. GOLDSMITH — Retaliation. L. 145. 15 L. 74. 10 Every tongue that speaks But Romeo's name speaks heavenly eloquence. Rom POPE— Moral Essays. Pt. III. L.21. u Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, yet... | |
 | Edwin Beresford Chancellor - 1925 - 276 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... | |
 | 1925 - 366 pages
...and w ; 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;... | |
 | John Lomas - Spain - 1925 - 364 pages
...against us at Gibraltar in 1727. He was the Wharton whom Pope described as being endowed 1 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1926 - 306 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...vice exempt, And most contemptible, to shun contempt ; 195 A Fool, with more of Wit than half mankind, *» Too rash for Thought, for Action too refin'd... | |
 | Lewis Saul Benjamin - Great Britain - 1927 - 358 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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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... 
