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" His passion still, to covet general praise, His life, to forfeit it a thousand ways; A constant bounty which no friend has made; An angel tongue, which no man can persuade; A fool, with more of wit than half mankind, Too rash for thought, for action too... "
The wits and beaux of society, by Grace and Philip Wharton - Page 182
by Katherine Thomson - 1860
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...drinks and whores: Enough if all around him but admire, And now the punk applaud, and now the friar. ent its turn to play, And all the village train, from...their sports beneath the spreading tree, While many a half mankind, Too rash for thought, for action too reou'd : A tyrant to the wife his heart approves...
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The Works of Alexander Popekesq., with Notes and Illustrations by ..., Volume 5

Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 pages
...honest heart ; Grown all to all, from no one vice exempt ; And most contemptible to shun contempt ; 195 His Passion still, to covet general praise, His life,...no man can persuade ; A fool, with more of wit than half mankind ; 200 Too rash for thought, for action too refin'd : A tyrant to the wife his heart approves...
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The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by ..., Volume 5

Alexander Pope - 1824 - 430 pages
...honest heart ; Grown all to all, from no one vice exempt ; And most contemptible to shun contempt ; 195 His Passion still, to covet general praise, His life,...no man can persuade ; A fool, with more of wit than half mankind ; 200 Too rash for thought, for action too refin'd : A tyrant to the wife his heart approves...
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The British anthology; or, Poetical library, Volumes 3-4

British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...drinks and whores ; Enough if all around him but admire, And now the punk applaud, and now the friar. Thus, with each gift of nature and of art, And wanting...no man can persuade ; A fool, with more of wit than half mankind, Too rash for thought, for action too refined ; A tyrant to the wife his heart approves...
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The Poetical Works of Alex. Pope: With a Sketch of the Author's Life

Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...and whores ; Enough if all around him but admire, 190 And now the punk applaud, and now the friar. Thus with each gift of nature and of art, And wanting...no man can persuade; A fool, with more of wit than half mankind, 200 Too rash for thought, for action too refined : A tyrant to the wife his heart approves...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope ...: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 pages
...all around him but admire, 190 And now the punk applaud, and now the friar. Thus with each gift oi ot the man described. Had the epitaph been written on tbe poor conspirator* who died half mankind, 200 Too rash for thought, for action too refined : A tyrant to the wife his heart approves...
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The Poetical Works, Volume 2

Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 pages
...and whores ; Enough if all around him but admire, 190 And now the punk applaud, and now the friar. Thus with each gift of nature and of art, And wanting...no man can persuade, A fool, with more of wit than half mankind, 200 Too rash for thought, for action too refined : A tyrant to the wife his heart approves...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...praise ; His life, to forfeit it a thousand ways ; A constant bounty, which no friend has made ยก Ai r could foresee. And well (he thought) advis'd him, ' Live like me.* As half mankind, 20C Too rash for thought, for action too refined : A tyrant to the wife his heart approves...
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The works of Alexander Pope; with a memoir of the author, notes ..., Volume 2

Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 pages
...1s7 John Wilmot, earl of Rochester, famous for his wit and extravagances in the time of Charles II, A constant bounty, which no friend has made ; An angel...no man can persuade ; A fool, with more of wit than half mankind ; '200 Too rash for thought, for action too refined ; A tyrant to the wife his heart approves...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., to which is Prefixed ..., Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1836 - 332 pages
...heart : Orown all to all, from no one vice exempt, "d most contemptible, to shun contempt ; HU'passion still, to covet general praise ; His life, to forfeit...no man can persuade ; A fool, with more of wit than half mankmd, 200 Too rash for thought, for action too refined : A tyrant to the wife his heart approves...
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