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Historia Rievallensis: Containing the History of Kirkby Moorside ... to ... - Page 102
by William Eastmead - 1824 - 486 pages
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Ed. by H.F. Cary, with a biogr. notice ...

Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...No wit to flatter, left of all his store ! Nn fool to laugh at, which he valued more. Thrre, 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) advised him, '• Live like me."...
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The Thames and Its Tributaries: Or, Rambles Among the Rivers, Volume 1

Charles Mackay - 1840 - 426 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 ! And what was the fate of the other? History and poetry have alike forgotten to say, thinking her...
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Waldie's Select Circulating Library, Volume 15

1841 - 500 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 Estay. PRINCE RUPERT. Born with the taste of an uncle whom his sword was not fortunate in defending,...
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Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson ...

John Aikin - 1841 - 840 pages
...No wit to flatter, left of all hia store; No fool to laugh at, which he valued more. There, victor 2 b 4 His grace's fate sage Cutler could foresee, And well (he thought) advis'd him, "Live like me!' As well...
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Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson ...

John Aikin - 1843 - 826 pages
...No wit to flatter, left of all his store ; No fool to laugh at, which he valued more. There, viator reely what it now so justly rues. Me miserable! which way shall I fly Infinite wra His grace's fate sage Cutler could foresee, And well (he thought) advis'd him, "Live like me!' At well...
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Evenings with the old story tellers, select tales from the Gesta Romanorum ...

Romani - 1845 - 796 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. THE name of the " Man of Ross" was John Kyrle, He was born at the White-house in the parish of Dy mock,...
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Chronicles of Fashion: From the Time of Elizabeth to the Early ..., Volume 1

Elizabeth Stone - 1845 - 484 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." Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, is known as but another name for the extremity of licentiousness, debauchery,...
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Wit and Humor

Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 282 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. i4 In the wont inn's worst room, $fc.—\t is a pity that Pope wrote this character of Buckingham after...
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Wit and Humor

Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 290 pages
...No wit to flatter, left of ail 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. 14 In the worst inn's worst room, Sfc. — ]t is a pity that Pope wrote this character of Buckingham...
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Wit and Humour, Selected from the English Poets; with an Illustrative Essay ...

Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 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. i5 In the worst inn's worst room, &c. — It is a pity that Pope wrote this character of Buckingham...
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