 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1857 - 428 pages
...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... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1857 - 394 pages
...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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pages
...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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1859 - 480 pages
...Devil. In squandering wealth was his peculiar art : Nothing went unrewarded hut desert. Beggar'd hy fools, whom still he found too late ( He had his jest and they had his estate, [relief He laugh'd himself from court ; then sought By forming parties, hut could ne'er ho chief :... | |
 | Henry Reed - English poetry - 1860 - 336 pages
...god 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." The finest... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pages
...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. DRYDEX. J2S.n (Englis^ |)tasatrf. To pomp and pageantry in nought allied, A noble peasant, Isaac Ashford,... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1862 - 678 pages
...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; For, spite... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1862 - 452 pages
...enjoy ! ***** 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." Gates, the chief witness in the Popish plot of 1680, is the object of a long rolling fire of invectives,... | |
 | William Francis Collier - American literature - 1862 - 550 pages
...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 bis estate. He laughed himself from court, then sought relief By forming parties, but could ne'er be... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1863 - 720 pages
...In squandering wealth was his peculiar art; Nothing went unrewarded but desert : Beggar'd by fbols, whom still he found too late, He had his jest, and...laugh'd himself from court, then sought relief By formin;-' parties, but could ne'er be chief ; Kor, spite of him, the weight of business fell On Absalom... | |
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Beggar'd 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 of him, the weight of business fell On Absalom and wise... 
