 Refuse his age the needful hours of rest ? Punish a body which he could not please, Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease ? And all to leave what with his toil he won To that unfeathered two-legged thing, a son, Got, while his soul did huddled notions...  History of English Literature - Page 249by Hippolyte Taine - 1900Full view - About this book
 | England - 1821 - 778 pages
...Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of case. And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd two-legged thing — a son ; Got while his soul did...anarchy; In friendship false, implacable in hate, Kcsolvod to ruin, or to rule the tute." Again, look at the famous sketch of the Duke of Buckingham.... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 474 pages
...famous statesman. Note IX. And all to leave what with his loll lie won, To that unfeather'd, two-kgg'd thing, a son ; Got while his soul did huddled notions try, And born a shapeless lump, like anarchy. — P. 222. Anthony Ashley Cooper, second Earl of Shaftesbury, and son of the great statesman, whom... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 316 pages
...yet prodigal of ease ? And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd, two legged thing, a son ; Got while his soul did huddled notions...Anarchy. In friendship false, implacable in hate, Resolved to ruin or to rule the state. To compass this the triple bond he broke, The pillars of the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 452 pages
...Ashley, his father : " And all to leave, what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd, two-Iegg'd thing, a son, Got while his soul did huddled notions try, And born a shapeless lump, like anarchy." Tn the character which Dr. Johnson has given of Dryden, with his usual eloquence and energy, there... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 452 pages
...Ashley, his father : " And all to leave, what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd, two-legg'd thing, a son, Got while his soul did huddled notions try, And born a shapeless lump, like anarchy." Tn the character which Dr. Johnson has given of Dryden, with his usual eloquence and energy, there... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...life, yet prodigal of ease ? And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd two-legg'd ays like theirs shall be our care Resolv'd to mi n or to rule the state. To compass this the triple bond he broke; The pillars of the... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1824 - 406 pages
...yet prodigal of ease ? And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd, two legged thing, a son ; Got while his soul did huddled notions...Anarchy. In friendship false, implacable in hate, Resolved to ruin or to rule the state. To compass this the triple bond he broke, The pillars of the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...life, yet prodigal of ease ? And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd two-legg'd sion sought the shade, And fill'd eaeh pause the nightingale had made. But now the sounds o anarehy. In friendship false, implaeable in hate; Resolv'd to ruin or to rule the state. To eompass... | |
 | John Dryden - 1832 - 342 pages
...ease ? And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd two-legg'd thing, a son ; 170 Got, while his soul did huddled notions try; And born...like anarchy. In friendship false, implacable in hate ; Resolv'd to ruin or to rule the state. To compass this the triple bond he broke ; ITS ampton laughed... | |
 | Walter Scott - Chivalry - 1834 - 486 pages
...life, yet prodigal of ease ? And all to leave what with his toil he won To that unfeather'd two-legg'd thing, a son ; Got, while his soul did huddled notions try ; And born a shapeless lump, like anarchy."] 8 See Dryden's Works, vol. ix., pp. 372 et seq.; also p. 415. not in the plan, but in the power of... | |
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