 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 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...bishops bite the town, And mighty dukes pack cards for half-a-crown. See Britain sunk in lucre's sordid charms, And France revenged on ANNE'S and EDWARD'S... | |
 | John Francis (of the Bank of England.) - 1849 - 420 pages
...wrote : — " Statesmen and patriots ply alike the Stocks, Peeress and butler share alike the box j And judges job, and bishops bite the town ; And mighty dukes pack cards for half-a-crown." At any rate, it is certain that, if the national glory was aggrandised, the national... | |
 | John Francis (of the Bank of England.) - 1850 - 210 pages
...that the jobbers vied with the first nobility in the kingdom. Pope wrote, — " Statesmen and patriots ply alike the Stocks, Peeress and butler share alike...bishops bite the town ; And mighty dukes pack cards for half-a-crown." At any rate, it is certain that, if the national glory was aggrandized, the national... | |
 | John Francis (of the Bank of England.) - 1850 - 192 pages
...that the jobbers vied with the first nobility in the kingdom. Pope wrote, — " Statesmen and patriots ply alike the Stocks, Peeress and butler share alike...bishops bite the town ; And mighty dukes pack cards for. half-a-crown." At any rate, it is certain that, if the national glory was aggrandized, the national... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 pages
...withstood,) ^hall dHuge all ; arid 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 lialf-a-crown. See Britain... | |
 | 1852 - 874 pages
...withstood,) Shall deluge all ; and Avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun ; 4 5 # f of Anne's and Edward's arms!" , 'Twas no courVbadge, great scrivener, fir'd thy brain. Nor lordly luxury,... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1852 - 334 pages
...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...bishops bite the Town, And mighty dukes pack cards for half-a-crown : tion of the age, the partiality of parliaments, and the misery of party spirit. He was... | |
 | Allen Hayden Weld - 1853 - 120 pages
...cre*|':!ie on, Spread like a low-born mist, and bir-; the sun; 20 Statesman and patriot ply alike the works, Peeress and butler share alike the box, And judges...cards for half a crown. See Britain sunk in lucre's solid charms, 23 And France revenged of Anne's and Edward's arms ! Twas no court-badge, great scrivener... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1854 - 338 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 - 1856 - 512 pages
...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...bishops bite the town, And mighty dukes pack cards for half-a-crown: See Britain sunk in lucre's sorded charms, And France revenged of Anne's and Edward's... | |
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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... 
