 | Richard Graves - English poetry - 1805 - 204 pages
...down however to a broker, who paid ho regard to the orator's fine speeches, but to the old maxim ; " What's the worth of any thing, "But so much money as 'twill bring?" An handsome swing looking glass was then produced, which the auctioneer recommended, as an uncommonly... | |
 | Richard Graves - English poetry - 1806 - 200 pages
...down however to a broker, who paid no regard to the orator's fine speeches, but to the old maxim ; " What's the worth of any thing, " But so much money as 'twill bring ?" An handsome swing looking glass was then produced, which the auctioneer recommended, as an uncommonly... | |
 | Henry Fielding, Arthur Murphy - 1806 - 484 pages
...watch, snuff-box, or ring, that is considered by the robber, who always thinks with Hudibras, What is the worth of any thing, But so much money as t'will bring ? • • ' • 1 shall add but one particular more ; which is, that my scheme would most certainly... | |
 | 1822 - 694 pages
...If, with certain persons of great prudence and worldly wisdom, whose stock-lines of poetry are, % " For what's the worth of any thing, But so much money as 'twill hring * ?" One should condemn the fine arts in toto, as useless superfluities of civilization ; one... | |
 | 1824 - 624 pages
...is " part and parcel of the law of the land :" and both parties will be equally right ; for, What "s the worth of any thing But so much money as 'twill bring ? To those rovers in love who are perpetually railing against the " tou jours perdrix" and who complain... | |
 | 1839 - 446 pages
...all mankind falle down before: 'Tis virtue, wit, and worth, and all That men divine and sacred call ; For what's the worth of any thing, But so much money as 'twill bring ? Butler. — Hudibras. Commerce. — The venal interchange Of all that human art or nature yield ;... | |
 | David Hoffman - Etiquette - 1841 - 400 pages
...'In all th' affairs of church and state Is both the balance and the weight ;' If they seriously ask, 'For what's the worth "of any thing But so much money as 'twill bring?' And if — but why any more ifs — their consolations are indefinite, if they'll only turn their mind... | |
 | Christopher Legge Lordan - English poetry - 1844 - 296 pages
...pleasurable, though certainly less profitable, if estimated by the Hudibrastic standard — " What is the worth of any thing But so much money as 'twill bring?" Then, too, I had scruples, suggested by admiration of Consistency and reverence of Truth, which, perhaps,... | |
 | Materials - 1846 - 478 pages
...THE BEST AUTHOHS. 'Tis virtue, wit, and worth, and all, That men divine and sacred call ; For what'a the worth of any thing, But so much money as t'will bring? — Hud-ibras. ccxxxvn. On Character. — A man who would preserve his integrity untainted, should... | |
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twill bring? " I shall add but one particular more; which is, that my scheme would most certainly provide for the poor, and that by an infallible (perhaps the only infallible) method, by removing the rich. Where there are no rich, there will of consequence... 
