...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 ways ; A constant bounty, which no friend has made...

...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 rt a thousand ways ; A constant bounty which no friend has made...

...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 ways ; A constant bounty, which no friend has made...

...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...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...

...sallies of his imagination may have been lost ; he no more wrote for fame than he acted for it." • " 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...

...against us at Gibraltar in 1727. He was the Wharton whom Pope described as being endowed ' With every 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 ' — words which...

...Correggios, and stuff, He shifted his trumpet, and only took snuff. GOLDSMITH — Retaliation. L. 145. 15 L. 74. 10 Every tongue that speaks But Romeo's name speaks heavenly eloquence. Rom POPE— Moral Essays. Pt. III. L.21. u Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, yet...

...drinks and whores; Enough if all around him but admire, 190 And now the Punk applaud, and now the Fryer. 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 gen'ral praise, His Life, to forfeit it a thousand ways; A constant...

...and most powerful portrait in that investigation of the "characters of men," the Epistle to Cobham, "Grown all to all, from no one vice exempt, | And most contemptible, to shun contempt" ( 194-5 ).9 The line which concludes this passage from Pope's Ep, ii, "And win my way by yielding to...