 Search then the ruling passion: there, alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known; The fool consistent, and the false sincere; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here. This clue once found, unravels all the rest, The prospect clears, and...  Journal - Page 342by Royal Institution of Cornwall - 1891Full view - About this book
 | 1846 - 352 pages
...inexplicable ; but we may say as Pope did of another noble and eccentric wit — the Duke of Wharton — 'This clue, once found, unravels all the rest; The prospect clears, and Walpole stands confest.' If it be said that his animosity against the public men of his long day is... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 pages
...VOL. IV. O The fool consistent, and the false sincere ; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here. This clue once found, unravels all the rest, The prospect clears, and WHARTON stands confess'd. Wharton, the scorn and wonder of our days, 180 Whose Ruling Passion was the lust of praise... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pages
...known ; The fool consistent, and the false sincere ; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here. This clue once found, unravels all the rest, The prospect clears, and WHARTON ° stands confest. Wharton, the scorn and wonder of our days, Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise : Born with... | |
 | Daniel Bishop - 1849 - 190 pages
...known ; The fool consistent, and the false sincere ; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here. This clue once found, unravels all the rest, The prospect clears," and each one stands confess'd. 347. The miscalled glory to which the warrior aspires " is not a mere inspiring... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1849 - 450 pages
...The fool consistent, and the false sincere ; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here. This clew once found unravels all the rest, The prospect clears, and Wharton stands confessed. Wharton. the scorn and wonder of our days, Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise.... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...with times. Search then the ruling passion. There alone The wild are constant, and the cunning known. This clue once found unravels all the rest; The prospect clears, and Wharton stands confest ; WJiarton! the scorn' and wonder' of our days, s Contempt. Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise.... | |
 | 1852 - 874 pages
...known , The fool consistent, and the false sincere ; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here. and * Wharton, the scorn and wonder of our days, Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise ; Born with... | |
 | 1853 - 560 pages
...known ; The fool consistent, and the false sincere ; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here. This clue, once found, unravels all the rest, The prospect clears, and Wharton stands confest. Wharton the scorn and wonder of our days, Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise ; Born with whate'er... | |
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