 | John Fisher Murray - 1849 - 386 páginas
...him, was God or devil. In squandering wealth was his peculiar art, Nothing went unrewarded but desert. Beggar'd by fools, whom still he found too late, He...could ne'er be chief, 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... | |
 | John Fisher Murray - 1849 - 388 páginas
...God or devil. In squandering wealth was his peculiar art, Nothing went unrewarded but desert. BeggarM by fools, whom still he found too late, He had his...could ne'er be chief. 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 páginas
...vanity ; to a want of judgment and principie, not an excess of wit. FROM 1649 JOHN D11ÏDK.4. Rfgpar'd by fools, whom still he found too late, He had his...had his estate ; He laugh'd himself from court, then Bought relief lîy forming parties, but could ne'er be chief; F~r, spite of him, the weight of business... | |
 | John Dryden - 1850 - 318 páginas
...extremes : So over violent, or over civil, That every man with him was God or Devil. In squandering wealth was his peculiar art : Nothing went unrewarded...could ne'er be chief: For, spite of him, the weight of business fell dte On Absalom and wise Achitophel : Thus, wicked but in will, of means bereft, He left... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 páginas
...Begpar'd by fools, whom still he found too late, lie had his j-.-t, and they had his estate ; He lauirh'd himself from court, then sought relief By forming parties, but could ne'er be chief; Frr, spite of him, the weight of business fell On Absalom and wise Achitophel : Thus, wicked but in... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - 1850 - 996 páginas
...BeggarM by fools, whom etill he found too late ; Ho had bid jest, and they had hin estate. Ho laughed himself from Court; then sought relief By forming parties, but could ne'er be chief; Thus, wicked but in will, of means bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left." Pope, in hia... | |
 | 1855 - 376 páginas
...him the companion, and eventually the victim, of flatterers and sharpers : " Courted by knaves until he found, too late, He had his jest, and they had — his estate." The intelligence that Strathoran had been lost at a gambling-table to Lord Gillravidge, a titled reprobate,... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 600 páginas
...or devil. In squandering wealth was his peculiar art ; Nothing went unrewarded but desert: Bcggar'd by fools, whom still he found too late. He had his...could ne'er be chief; For, spite of him, the weight of business fell On Absalom and wise Achitophel ; Thus, wicked but in will, of means bereft, THE HIND... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 páginas
...him was God or devil. In squandering wealth was his peculiar art; Nothing went unrewarded but desert: Beggar'd by fools, whom still he found too late, He...parties, but could ne'er be chief; For. spite of him, the weigtit of business fell On Absalom and wise Achitophel ; Thus, wicked but in will, of means berea,... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 602 páginas
...was God or devil. In squandering 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 langlvd himself from court, then sought relief By forming parties, but could ne'er be chief; For, spite... | |
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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 of him the weight of business fell On Absalom and wise... 
