...turns of Whigs and Tories : Was cheerful to his dying day ; And friends would let him have his way. " He gave the little wealth he had To build a house for fools and mad ; And shew'd by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much. That kingdom he had left his debtor, I wish...

...no judge of those. Nor can I tell what critics thought 'em, Bnt this I know, all people bought 'em. 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...

...complied with the request, and extorted from the Dean the question, " Whether he had ever read Gil Bias." He gave the little wealth he had, To build a house for fools or mad, To show, by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much.* Such, however, was the resolution...

...an asylum for the insane and for idiots. Yet even of that he jests in his Verses on his Own Death: " He gave the little wealth he had To build a house for fools and mad; To shew, by one satiric touch. No nation needed it so much." Like issuing from a noisome fen to the...

...offended with a jest ; But laughed to hear an idiot quote A verse from Horace learned 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.' " ADDISON. 1072-1719. FT'OR a long time...

...Lunatic Asylum from a letter of Sir William Fownes upon that subject ; or whether, as he himself alleges, He gave the little wealth he had, To build a house for fools or mad, To show, by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much. Such, however, was the resolution...

...thousand pounds, he left chiefly to found a lunatic asylum in Dublin ; to use his own words, — " He gave the little wealth he had, To build a house for fools and mad ; And showed by one satiric touch, No nation needed it so much." This description in " Baucis and Philemon...

...candle." He bequeathed his property to found a hospital for idiots and lunatics ; in his own words, — 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. V. Mr. G.- M. Berkeley decided that there...

...madder day by day now." " I dare say," said John. " I do well to get mad." Then he quoted : " 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." " I have some Irish blood in my veins. So...

...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...