 Though wit and art conspire to move your mind ; But dulness with obscenity must prove As shameful sure as impotence in love. In the fat age of pleasure, wealth, and ease, Sprung the rank weed, and thrived with large increase ; When love was all an easy...  The Fortunate Union: A Romance - Page 1951829 - 520 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...the fat age of pleasure, wealth, and ease, Sprung the rank weed, and thriv'd with large increase : When love was all an easy monarch's care ; Seldom at council, never in a war ; Jilts rul'd the state, and statesmen farces writ ; Nay, wits had pensions, and young lords had wit... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...'>•-.< age of pleasure, wealth, and ease, Sprank the rank weed, and thriv'd with large increase : ice to raise: What will not men attempt for sacred praise ? The love of prai Jilts rul'd the state, and statesmen farces writ; Nay, wits had pensions, and young lords had wit:... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 656 pages
...fat age of pleasure, wealth and ease, Sprung the rank weed, and thriv'd with large increase ; WTien love was all an easy monarch's care, Seldom at council, never in a war : Jilts rul'd the state, and statesmen farces writ ; Nay wits had pensions, and young lords had wit... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 426 pages
...fat age of pleasure, wealth, and ease, Sprung the rank weed, and thriv'd with large increase : 535 When love was all an easy Monarch's care ; Seldom at council, never in a war : Jilts rul'd the state, and statesmen farces writ : Nay wits had pensions, and young Lords had wit... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 428 pages
...fat age of pleasure, wealth, and ease, Sprung the rank weed, and thriv'd with large increase : 535 When love was all an easy Monarch's care ; Seldom at council, never in a war : Jilts rul'd the state', and statesmen farces writ : Nay wits had pensions, and young Lords had wit:... | |
 | 1822 - 284 pages
...the fat age of pleasure, wealth, and ease, Sprung the rank weed, and thrived with large increase : "When love was all an easy monarch's care; Seldom at council, never in a war; Jilts ruled the state, and statesmen farces writ; Nay, wits had pensions, and young lords had wit;... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...the fat age of pleasure, wealth, and ease, Sprang the rank weed, and thriv'd with large increase : us actions may as well be done By weaver's issue, as by prince's son. This ar Jilts ru IM the state, and statesmen farces writ; Nay wits had pensions, and young lords hue wit :... | |
 | Richard Warner - 1824 - 434 pages
...THE SECOND. Dr. Joseph Warton, in his remarks on those lines of Pope, in his " Essay on Criticism," " When love was all an easy monarch's care, • " Seldom at council, never in a war," observes, that the dissolute reign of Charles the Second justly deserved the satirical proscription... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 pages
...the necessity of, the subject of the third and last division, which is, on the Morals of the Critic. When love was all an easy Monarch's care ; Seldom at council, never in a war : Jilts rul'd the state, and statesmen farces writ : Nay wits had pensions, and young Lords had wit... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 400 pages
...the necessity of, the subject of the third and last division, which is, on the Morals of the Critic. When love was all an easy Monarch's care; Seldom at council, never in a war: Jilts rul'd the state, and statesmen farces writ: Nay wits had pensions, and young Lords had wit: The... | |
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