 What's property ? dear Swift ! you see it alter From you to me, from me to Peter Walter; Or, in a mortgage, prove a lawyer's share; Or, in a jointure, vanish from the heir...  Works - Page 460by Sir Walter Scott - 1923Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...abroad defend ; At home, with morals, arts, and laws amend. POPE. What's property? you see it alter, Or, in a mortgage, prove a lawyer's share, Or, in a jointure, vanish from the heir. POPE. No statute in his favour says How free or frugal I shall pass my days; I who at some times spend,... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1875 - 494 pages
...expellat eerte vivacior hteres. What follows is admirably turned by Pope : " Shades that to Bacon might retreat afford, Become the portion of a booby lord ; And Helmsley, once proud Buckingham's delight, Slides to a scrivener, or city knight." And those rich manors there of goodman Taylor's, Had... | |
 | James Edwin Thorold Rogers - 1876 - 206 pages
...martyr to gout aj Quid enim velocis gloria palmae Praestat, et esuriens Pisaeae ramus oliv,ie? 84 ' Shades, that to Bacon could retreat afford Become the portion of a booby Lord.' Pope. 88 Ut. sit mag.,a, tamen certe lent;} ira Deoruui est. ' Perchance a charity will save my soul... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1878 - 788 pages
...abroad defend ; At home, with morals, arts, and laws amend. POPE. What's property? you see it alter, Or, in a mortgage, prove a lawyer's share, Or, in a jointure, vanish from the heir. POPE. No statute in his favour says How free or frugal I shall pass my days; I who at some times spend,... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1879 - 418 pages
...Pope's imitation : — What 's property, dear Swift ? you see it alter From you to me, from me to Peter Walter ; Or in a mortgage prove a lawyer's share ;...booby lord; And Helmsley, once proud Buckingham's delight, Slides to a scrivener and city knight. Let lands and houses have what lords they will, Let... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1879 - 570 pages
...to Pope or Vernon? What's Property? dear bwift ! you see it alter From you to me, from me to Peter Walter; Or, in a mortgage, prove a Lawyer's share; Or, in a jointure, vanish from the heir4; Or in pure equity (the case not clear) The Chanc'ry takes your rents for twenty year: At best,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1881 - 608 pages
...246-263. At best, it falls to some ungracious son, Who cries, " My father's damned, and all's my own." Shades, that to Bacon could retreat afford, Become...booby lord ; ' And Helmsley, once proud Buckingham's delight, Slides to a scrivener or a city knight : 2 Let lands and houses have what lords they will,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1881 - 572 pages
...246-283. At best, it falls to some ungracious son, Who cries, " My father's damned, and all's my own." Shades, that to Bacon could retreat afford, Become...booby lord ; ' And Helmsley, once proud Buckingham's delight, Slides to a scrivener or a city knight : 2 Let lands and houses have what lords they will,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1881 - 196 pages
...to Pope or Vernon? What's property ? dear Swift ! you see it alter From you to me, from me to Peter Walter; Or, in a mortgage, prove a lawyer's share; Or, in a jointure, vanish from the heir; 170 Or in pure equity (the case not clear) The Chanc'ry takes your rents for twenty year: At best,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1881 - 176 pages
...to Pope or Vernon? What's property ? dear Swift! you see it alter From you to me, from me to Peter Walter; Or, in a mortgage, prove a lawyer's share; Or, in a jointure, vanish from the heir; 170 Or in pure equity (the case not clear) The Chanc'ry takes your rents for twenty year: At best,... | |
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