 | John Bell - 1796 - 524 pages
...rest, The prospect clears, and Wharton stands confest. Wharton, the scorn and worder of our days ! ife Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise ; Born...the wise, Women and fools must like him, or he dies : Tho' wond'ring senates hung on all he spo!;es Theclub must hail him master of the joke. ll5 Shall... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 392 pages
...dies, fad outcaft of each church and ftate, And, harder ftiil ! flagitious, yet not great. z05 Aflc you why Wharton broke through every rule ? 'Twas all for fear the Knaves mould call him Fool. Nature well known, no prodigies remain, . . Comets are regular, and Wharton plain.... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 398 pages
...dies, fad outcaft of each church and ftate, And, harder ftill ! flagitious, yet not great. 205 Afk you why Wharton broke through every rule ? 'Twas all for fear the Knaves mould call him Fool. Nature well known, no prodigies remain, Comets are regular, and Wharton plain.... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 906 pages
...¡ He dies, fad outcaft of each church and ftate, And, harder dill ! flagitious, yet not great. Aflc you why Wharton broke through every rule ? 'Twas all for fear the knaves (hould call him fool. Nature well known, no prodigies remain, Comets are regular, and Wharton plain.... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1801 - 474 pages
...Essays. * WHARTON, the scorn and wonder of our days. Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise; Bom with whate'er could win it from the wise, Women and fools must like him, or he dies. Though wondering senates hung on all he spoke, The club must hail him master of the joke. Shall parts... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1801 - 512 pages
...WHARTON, the scorn and wonder of our day$, Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise; Born with wbate'er could win it from the wise, Women and fools must like him, or he dies. Though wondering senates hung on all he spoke, The club must hail him master of the joke. Shall parts... | |
 | John Britton - 1814 - 1124 pages
...the scorn and wonder of our da:, ., Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise : Barn with whnte'er could win it from the wise. Women and fools must like him, or lie dies : Though wondering senates hung on all he spoke, The club must hail him master of the joke... | |
 | George Alexander Cooke - 1817 - 330 pages
...been finely described by Pope in his Moral Es» says : " Wharton, tlie scorn and wonder of our days, .Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise : Born with whate'er could win it from the wise, Women or fools must like him, or he dies. Though wondering senates hung on all he spoke, The club must hail... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 232 pages
...rest, The prospect clears, and Wharton stands confest. Wharton ! the scorn and wonder of our days, 180 Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise : Born...the wise, Women and fools must like him, or he dies : Tho' wond'ring senates hung on all he spoke, The club must hail him master of the joke. 185 Shall... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1806 - 540 pages
...the vivid pencil of Pope : " Wharton, the scorn and wonder of our days, Whose ruling passion was a lust of praise: Born with whate'er could win it from...the wise, Women and fools must like him, or he dies : Though raptur'd senates hung on all he spoke, The club must hail him master of the joke. Shall parts... | |
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Wharton, the scorn and wonder of our days, Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise : Born with whate'er could win it from the wise, Women and fools must like him, or he dies; Though wondering senates hung on all he spoke, The club must hail him master... 
