 | Douglas Ford - 1907 - 386 pages
...whole of human life in all its variety, the contemplation of which is inexhaustible." "By numbers there from shame or censure free, All crimes are safe but hated poverty." Addison, it is interesting to notice, filled the same office that James Vernon once held — that of... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1908 - 562 pages
...prowls for prey; Here falling houses thunder on your head, And here a female atheist talks you dead. By numbers here from shame or censure free, All crimes are safe but hated poverty. 20 This, only this, the rigid law pursues; This, only this, provokes the snarling Muse; The sober trader... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 pages
...the heart; 155 Then soon your ill-placed confidence repay, Commence your lords, and govern or betray. By numbers here from shame or censure free, All crimes...hated poverty. This, only this, the rigid law pursues, 160 This, only this, provokes the snarling Muse. The sober trader at a tatter'd cloak Wakes from his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 pages
...repay, Commence your lords, and govern or betray. rr' By numbers here from shame or censure free, II All crimes are safe but hated poverty. This, only this, the rigid law pursues, 160 i This, only this, provokes the snarling Muse. i The sober trader at a tatter'd cloak Wakes from... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1910 - 720 pages
...To point a moral or adorn a tale. [From London.] THE FATE OF POVERTY. BY numbers here from shame ol censure free, All crimes are safe but hated poverty,...the rigid law pursues, This, only this, provokes the snarlinj muse. The sober trader at a tattered cloak Wakes from his dream, and labor. for a joke; With... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - 1915 - 852 pages
...heart; 155 Then soon your ill-placed confidence repay, Commence your lords, and govern or betray. " p (jW ' q 6Q 3( 6 +G ||yL CtR 2q um US &/ ... x e ) H a 3 -% R mcU ѽ_ j ق 7Kh / -/fz ԕ leo This, only this, provokes the snarling Muse. The sober trader at a tatter'd cloak Wakes from his... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1916 - 806 pages
...him deeper, and where he finds only new gradations of anguish, and precipices of horror. FROM LONDON The child whom many fathers share, Hath seldom known a father's care. 155 This, only this, the rigid law pursues ; This, only this, provokes the snarling muse. The sober... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1916 - 828 pages
...him deeper, and where he finds only new gradations of anguish, and precipices of horror. FROM LONDON c,O `4_Wc b b*` !*] 155 This, only this, the rigid law pursues; This, only this, provokes the snarling muse. The sober... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1918 - 186 pages
...should be noted, greatly amplifies the corresponding passage in Juvenal : By numbers here from shame and censure free, All crimes are safe, but hated poverty....; With brisker air the silken courtiers gaze, And turns the various taunt a thousand ways. Of all the griefs that harass the distress 'd, Sure the most... | |
 | 1925 - 406 pages
...Pope and other men of letters. A bit from this poem is often quoted : By numbers here, from shame and censure free, All crimes are safe but hated poverty....pursues, This, only this, provokes the snarling muse. Has Heaven reserved, in pity to the poor, No pathless waste or undiscovered shore, No secret island... | |
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By numbers here from shame or censure free All crimes are safe, but hated poverty. This, only this, the rigid law pursues ; This, only this, provokes the snarling muse. The sober trader at a tatter 'd cloak Wakes from his dream, and labours for a joke... 
