 | John Dryden - 1852 - 378 páginas
...or devil. In squand'ring wealth was his peculiar art: Nothing went unrewarded but desert. Beggar' d by fools, whom still he found too late; He had his jest, and they had his estate. He laugh' d himself from court; then sought relief By forming parties, but could ne'er be chief: For spite... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 páginas
...vanity ; to a want of judgment and principle, not an excess of wit. FROM 16'4Э JOHN DRY OF*. , Begcar'd by fools, whom still he found too late, He had his jest, and they had his estate ; lie laugh'd himself from court, then sought relief Вт forming parties, but could ne'er be chief;... | |
 | John Dryden - 1854 - 324 páginas
...or Devil. In squandering wealth was his peculiar art ; Nothing went unrewarded but desert. Beggared by fools, whom still he found too late, He had his jest, and they had his estate. He laughed himself from court ; then sought relief By forming parties, but could ne'er be chief: * De... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 páginas
...or Devil. In squand'ring wealth was his peculiar art : Nothmg went unrewarded but desert. Beggar d by fools, whom still he found too late ; He had his jest, but they had his estate. He laugh'd himself from court ; then sought relief By forming parties, but... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1855 - 570 páginas
...squandering wealth was his peculiar art ; Nothing went unrewarded but desert. Beggared by fools, who still he found too late, He had his jest, and they had his estate. He laughed himself from court : then sought relief By forming parties, but could ne'er be chief : For,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1856 - 592 páginas
...usual themes ; And both, to show his judgment, in extremes : So over-violent, or nvBr-nivil, Tliat every man with him was God or Devil. In squandering...too late ; He had his jest, and they had his estate. Ho laugh'd himself from court, then sought relief 3y forming parties, but could ne'er be chief: For,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1856 - 568 páginas
...or Devil In squandering wealth was his peculiar art ; Nothing went unrewarded but desert. Bsggar'd by fools, whom still he found too late ; He had his jest, and they had his estate. Ho laugh 'd himself from court, then sought relief By forming parties, but could ne'er be chief: For,... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1857 - 394 páginas
...devil. 19* In squandering wealth was his peculiar art; Nothing went unrewarded but desert: Beggared by fools, whom still he found too late, He had his jest, and they had his estate; He laughed himself from court, then sought relief By forming parties, but could ne'er be chief; For, spite... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1857 - 428 páginas
...extremes. In squandering wealth was his peculiar art, Nothing went unrewarded but desert ; Beggared by fools, whom still he found too late, He had his jest, and they had his estate ; He laughed himself from court, then sought relief By forming parties, but could not be chief. For, spite... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 páginas
...civil, That every man with him was god or devil. In squandering wealth was his peculiar art; JVothing went unrewarded, but desert. Beggar'd by fools, whom...too late, He had his jest, and they had his estate. Inversion itself was often turned into a grace in these poets, and may be in others, by the power of... | |
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For, spite of him, the weight of business fell On Absalom and wise Achitophel: Thus, wicked but in will, of means bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left. 
