...relief of the insane has been found in the great Dean's disposition of his property : — " He left tho little wealth he had To build a house for fools and mad ; To show by ono satiric touch No nation needed it so much ; " but the grotesque ingenuity which pilfers...

...often miss'd his aim, The world must own it to their shame, The p raise is his, and theirs the blame. He gave the little wealth he had To build a house for fools and mad ; To show, by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much. That kingdom he hath left his debtor...

...ne'er offended with a jest : But laughed to hear an idiot quote A verse from Horace learn'd by rote. He gave the little wealth he had To build a house for fools and mad ; And showed by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much. And he— poor fellow ! — I believe, ended...

...was devoted after his death to the purpose he desired: as he said himself:— 8*e'sSgi* JK^" He left the little wealth he had To build a house for fools and mad, To show by one satiric touch No nation needed it so much. If he had not been excepted in the Mortmain...

...of his own fate. He himself assigned, another reason. He says in his poem on his own death : He left the little wealth he had To build a house for fools and mad, To show by one satiric touch No nation needed it so much. The reputation of Swift has suffered from...

...of his own fate. He himself assigned another reason. He says in his poem on his own death : He left the little 'wealth he had To build a house for fools and mad, To show by one satiric touch No nation needed it so much. The reputation of Swift has suffered from...

...lunatics was taken many years before his death. Cf. his Verses on his own Death, Works, 14. 369 : , He gave the little wealth he had To build a house for fools or mad.' With the first £500 he could call his own he instituted a fund for granting small loans to...

...lunatics was taken many years before his death. Cf. his Verses on his own Death, Works, 14. 369 : ' He gave the little wealth he had To build a house for fools or mad.' With the first £500 he could call his own he instituted a fund for granting small loans to...

...owners, set not up for beauty ; True genuine dulness moved his pity, Unless it offered to be witty ! He gave the little wealth he had To build a house for fools and mad, To shew, by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much! " It was even so. With a sad foreboding...

...often missed his aim, The world must own it to their shame, The praise is his, and theirs the blame. He gave the little wealth he had To build a house for fools and mad; To show, by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much. That kingdom he hath left his debtor; I...