 Grown all to all, from no one vice exempt; And most 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; An angel tongue, which no man can persuade!...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 2101854Full view - About this book
 | Edward Young - 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...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... | |
 | Henry Schroder - 1852 - 430 pages
...not ill suit the author of the speeches on Warren Hastings's trial, and the School for Scandal.] Tims 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... | |
 | 1853 - 560 pages
...joke. 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...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 - 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...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 - 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 362 pages
...and 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...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... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 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...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;... | |
 | George William Frederick Howard Earl of Carlisle - 1856 - 640 pages
...does 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...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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