 | Edward Young - English poetry - 1852 - 528 pages
...Though 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...general praise ; His life, to forfeit it a thousand ways : ***** He dies, sad outcast of each church and state, And, harder still ! flagitious, yet not great."... | |
 | Henry Schroeder - 1852 - 424 pages
...nature and of art, And most contemptible, to shun contempt; Grown all to all, from no one vice exempt; His passion still, to covet general praise, His life,...thousand ways; A constant bounty which no friend has made ; A fool, with more of wit than half mankind, An angel tongue, which no man can persuade; Too rash... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1854 - 566 pages
...drinks 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...which no friend has made ; An angel tongue, which no one can persuade ; A fool, with more of wit than half mankind, Too rash for thought, for action too... | |
 | Charles Churchill, William Tooke - 1854 - 378 pages
...master 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...constant bounty, which no friend has made, An angel tongne which no man can persuade, A fool with more of wit than half mankind, Too rash for thought,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1854 - 338 pages
...drinks and 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...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 - 1855 - 464 pages
...— 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... | |
 | Edward Young - 1856 - 536 pages
...Though 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...general praise ; His life, to forfeit it a thousand ways : ***** He dies, sad outcast of each church and state, And, harder still ! flagitious, yet not great."... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 512 pages
...drinks 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...general praise, His life to forfeit it a thousand waysj A constant bounty which no friend has made; A fool with more of wit than half mankind j Too rash... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - Lake District (England) - 1858 - 376 pages
...joke. Shall parts so various aim at nothing new 1 He '11 shine a Tully and a \Vilmot too. « * » * * Thus with each gift of nature and of art, And wanting...general praise, His life to forfeit it a thousand ways, — Tie dies, sad outcast of each church and stain, And harder still ! flagitious, yet not great,"... | |
 | lady Georgiana Charlotte Fullerton - 1858 - 328 pages
...are polluted offerings." — SHAKESPEARE. " A fool with more of wit than half mankind ; ****** Blest with each gift of nature and of art, And wanting nothing but an honest heart." — DRTDEH. IN the bosom of a brilliant, refined, but licentious society, in one of the aristocratic... | |
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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; A constant bounty which no friend has made; An angel tongue which no man can persuade... 
