 | John Dryden - 1808 - 476 pages
...No wit to fla'.ter lett of all his store, No fool to lant;h at, which he valued more; There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends, And fame, this lord of useless thousands ends J Note XIX. . Balaam.— P. 234. The Earl of Huntington. A coarse reason is given by Luttrel, in his... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...No wit to flatter, left of all his store I No fool to laugh at, which he valued more. There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends, And fame, this lord of useless thousands ends! His grace's fate sage Cutler could foresee, And well (he thought) advis'd him, ' Live like me. As well... | |
 | David Simpson - 1809 - 410 pages
...No wit to flatter left of all his store ! No fool to laugh at, which he valued more ! There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends, And fame, this lord of useless thousands ends." Dryden describes this nobleman as being, " A man so various, that he seem'dto be Not one, but all mankind's... | |
 | Anthony Hamilton (Count) - 1809 - 344 pages
...No wit to flatter, left of all his store ! No fool to laugh at, which he valued more. There victor of his health, of fortune, friends, And fame, this lord of useless thousands ends.' Moral Essays, Epist. 3. 1.22§. He died 16th April, 1688, at the house of a tenant at Kirby Moor Side,... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...No wit to flatter, left of all his store ' No fool to langh at, which he valued more. There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends. And fame, this lord of useless thousands ends ! His grace's fate sage Culler could foresee, And well (he thought) advis'd him, ' Live like me.' As... | |
 | John Sabine - 1810 - 308 pages
...wit, to flatter, left of all his store; No fool to laugh at, which he valu'd more. There, — victor of his health, of fortune, friends, And fame — this lord of useless thousands ends. POPK. Belinda. Not with more glories, in th' ethereal plain, The sun first rises o'er the purpled main,... | |
 | David Simpson - 1810 - 422 pages
...In a few days at most, perhaps in a few hours, the inevitable sentence will be past, There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends And fame, this Lord of useless thousands ends." Mr. DRYDEN describes this Nobleman as being — " A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 pages
...No wit tn natter, left of all his store ! No fool to laugh at, which he valued more. There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends, And fame, this lord of useless thousands ends. His grace's fate sage Cutler could foresee, And well (he thought) advis'd him, " Live like me !" As... | |
 | Thomas Hinderwell - 1811 - 458 pages
...the Younger VIU.IBRS, DUKE of BUCKINGHAM, on his death-bed, to his particular friend, Dr. Barrow. " Dear Doctor, " I always looked upon you to be a person of true virtue, *nd know you to have a sound understanding; for, however I raaj have acted in opposition to the principles... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...wit to flatter, left of all his store ! • No fool to laugh at, which he valued more. There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends, And fame ; this lord of useless thousands ends. His grace's fate sage Cutler could foresee, 315 And well (he thought) advis'd him, " Live like me."... | |
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Of mimic statesmen, and their merry king. No wit to flatter, left of all his store! No fool to laugh at, which he valued more. There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends, And fame, this lord of useless thousands ends! 
