 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 pages
...him was God or devil. In squandering wealth was his peculiar art; Nothing went unrewarded but desert: Beggar'd by fools, whom still he found too late, He...parties, but could ne'er be chief; For. spite of him, the weigtit of business fell On Absalom and wise Achitophel ; Thus, wicked but in will, of means berea,... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 602 pages
...was God or devil. In squandering wealth was his peculiar art ; Nothing went unrewarded but desert: Beggar'd by fools, whom still he found too late, He had his jest, and they had his estate ; He langlvd himself from court, then sought relief By forming parties, but could ne'er be chief; For, spite... | |
 | NBC University of the Air - 1852 - 456 pages
...was God or devil. In squandering wealth was his peculiar art : Nothing went unrewarded but desert. Beggar'd by fools, whom still he found too late ;...could ne'er be chief; For, spite of him, the weight of business fell On Absalom and wise Achitophel. Thus wicked but in will, of means bereft, He left not... | |
 | John Dryden - 1852 - 378 pages
...or devil. In squand'ring wealth was his peculiar art: Nothing went unrewarded but desert. Beggar' d by fools, whom still he found too late; He had his jest, and they had his estate. He laugh' d himself from court; then sought relief By forming parties, but could ne'er be chief: For spite... | |
 | Anthony Hamilton (Count), Charles II (King of England), Thomas Blount - 1853 - 568 pages
...was god or devil. In squandering wealth was his peculiar art ; Nothing went unrewarded but desert. Beggar'd by fools, whom still he found too late ;...ne'er be chief ; For, spite of him, the weight of business fell On Absalom and wise Achitophel : Thus wicked but in will, of means bereft, He left not... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1853 - 838 pages
...it us im injury. If I hail rfiiled. I might пате Buffered for it justly : but I managed my own Beggar'd by fools, whom still he found too late ;...could ne'er be chief; For spite of him the weight of business fell On Absalom and wise Aehitophel : Thus, wicked but in will, of means bereft, He left not... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 pages
...vanity ; to a want of judgment and principle, not an excess of wit. FROM 16'4Э JOHN DRY OF*. , Begcar'd by fools, whom still he found too late, He had his jest, and they had his estate ; lie laugh'd himself from court, then sought relief Вт forming parties, but could ne'er be chief;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1854 - 338 pages
...was god or devil. In squandering wealth was his peculiar art; Nothing went unrewarded, but desert. Beggar'd by fools, whom still he found too late ;...relief By forming parties, but could ne'er be chief. Thus wicked but in will, of means bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left." Absalom and Achitophsl.... | |
 | John Dryden - 1854 - 324 pages
...or Devil. In squandering wealth was his peculiar art ; Nothing went unrewarded but desert. Beggared by fools, whom still he found too late, He had his jest, and they had his estate. He laughed himself from court ; then sought relief By forming parties, but could ne'er be chief: * De... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 pages
...or Devil. In squand'ring wealth was his peculiar art : Nothmg went unrewarded but desert. Beggar d by fools, whom still he found too late ; He had his jest, but they had his estate. He laugh'd himself from court ; then sought relief By forming parties, but... | |
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For, spite of him, the weight of business fell On Absalom and wise Achitophel: Thus, wicked but in will, of means bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left. 
