 | Pablo Pebrer - 1833 - 610 pages
...was infected with that irresistible passion, and as Pope has admirably described it, " Statesman nnd patriot ply alike the Stocks, Peeress and butler share alike the box, And judges job, nnd bishops bite the town, And mighty dukes pack cards for half-a-crown." • Com. Jour. Vol. IX. p.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 pages
...withstood, Shall deluge all ; and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun ; Statesman and patriot ply alike the stocks, Peeress and butler share alike the box, 140 And judges job, and bishops bite the town, And mighty dukes pack cards for half a crown. See Britain... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 332 pages
...blot the sun ; Statesman and patriot ply alike the stocka, Peeress and butler share alike the box, 140 And judges job, and bishops bite the town, And mighty dukes pack cards for half-a-crown. See Britain sunk in lucre's sordid charms, And France revenged of Anne's and Edward's... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...withstood) bhall deluge all ; and avarice creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun; sings along the skies : Hemiss'dthemark; but pierced...blood the thirsty dart. (Fair Castianira, nymph of f half-a-crown. See Britain sunk in lucre's sordid charms, And France revenged on ANNE'S and EDWAUD'S... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 pages
...withstood,) Shall deluge all; and Avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun ; ; All stales can reach it, and all heads conceive; Obvious her goods, in ihe box ; And judges job, and bishops bite the town. And mighty dukes pack cards for half a crown.... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 pages
...withstood,) Shall deluge all ; and Avarice, creeping on. Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun ; ow Sight more detestable than him and thee." All on...eyes, and dizzy swum In darkness, while thy head fl Ibr half a crown. See Britain sunk in Lucre's sordid charms, And I'r.iuir reveng'd of Anne's and Edward's... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 806 pages
...untill they made the same to fall from the tree. Sir Пояии North. Plutarch, fol. 457. Kietot. Statesman and patriot ply alike the stocks, Peeress and butler share alike the box, And judges_/'o4, and bishops bite the town, And mighty dukes pack cards for half a crown. Pope. Moral Eaayi,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1846 - 328 pages
...withstood,) Shall deluge all ; and avarice creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun ; Statesman and patriot ply alike the stocks, Peeress and butler share alike the box, 140 And judges job, and bishops bite the town, And mighty dukes pack cards for half-a-crown. See Britain... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 pages
...withstood,) Shall deluge all ; and avarice creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun ; Statesman and patriot ply alike the stocks, Peeress and butler share alike the box, 140 And judges job, and bishops bite the town, And mighty dukes pack cards for half a crown. See Britain... | |
 | Allen Hayden Weld - 1848 - 120 pages
...withstood, Shall deluge all ; and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun ; 20 Statesman and patriot ply alike the stocks, Peeress...cards for half a crown. See Britain sunk in lucre's solid charms, 25 And France revenged of Anne's and Edward's arms ! Twas no court-badge, great scrivener!... | |
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At length Corruption, like a gen'ral flood, "(So long by watchful Ministers withstood) "Shall deluge all; and Av'rice creeping on, "Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the Sun; "Statesman and Patriot ply alike the stocks, "Peeress and Butler share alike... 
