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Topography of Great Britain: Or, British Traveller's Directory: Cornwall - Page 106
by George Alexander Cooke - 1817
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Memorials of Twickenham: Parochial and Topographical

Richard Stuteley Cobbett - 1872 - 458 pages
...disreputable Duke of Wharton, whom Pope describes as " the scorn and wonder of our days, possessing — . . . Each gift of nature and of art, And wanting nothing but an honest heart." During Pope's time it was the residence of his friend James Craggs, junior, whom Horace Walpole spitefully...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope - 1873 - 590 pages
...Second. P. [See note p. 181.] 5 With the same spirit] Spirit, for principle, not passion. Warburton. Thus with each gift of nature and of art, And wanting...heart; Grown all to all^ from no one vice exempt; 195 And most contemptible, to shun contempt : His Passion still, to covet gen'ral praise, His Life,...
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POPE, SELECTED POEMS; THE ESSAY ON CRITICISM; THE MORAL ESSAYS; THE DUNCIAD

THOMAS ARNOLD - 1876 - 312 pages
...master of the joke. Shall parts so various aim at nothing new ? He'll shine a Tully and a Wilmot too. Thus with each gift of nature and of art, And wanting...contempt; His passion still, to covet general praise ; 190 A fool, with more of wit than half mankind, Too rash for thought, for action too refined ; A...
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Tales of Our Great Families, Volume 2

Edward Walford - 1877 - 370 pages
...master of the joke. Shall parts so various aim at nothing new ? He'll shine a Tully and a Wilmot too. Thus, with each gift of nature and of art, And wanting...from no one vice exempt, And most contemptible to show contempt ; His passion still, to covet general praise ; His life, to forfeit it a thousand ways...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope - 1879 - 570 pages
...sp\m\ S £irit, foe ^\\cvc\^ i life of mad dissipation and at/venture, died not passion. W arburton. Thus with each gift of nature and of art, And wanting...contemptible, to shun contempt : His Passion still, to covet gen'ral praise, His Life, to forfeit it a thousand ways; A constant Bounty which no friend has made...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 3

Alexander Pope - 1881 - 608 pages
...his God adores With the same spirit that he drinks and whores ; Enough, if all around him but admire, And now the punk applaud, and now the friar." Thus...and of art, And wanting nothing but an honest heart ; IM lines were printed after ver. 171. Instead of " Search then," the reading was "Tis in," ie, 'Tis...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 3

Alexander Pope - 1881 - 572 pages
...his God adores With the same spirit that he drinks and whores ; Enough, if all around him but admire, And now the punk applaud, and now the friar.' Thus...and of art, And wanting nothing but an honest heart ; lines were printed after ver. 171. Instead of " Search then," the reading was "Tis in," ie, 'Tis...
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Belgravia: A London Magazine, Volume 43

1881 - 738 pages
...the joke. Shall parts so various aim at nothing new : He'll shine a Tally and a Wrilmot too. . . . with each gift of nature and of art, And wanting nothing but an honest heart ; • t • • A fool, with more of wit than half mankind, Too rash for thought, for action too refined,...
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The Works of Alexander Pope: Poetry

Alexander Pope - 1881 - 570 pages
...of Wharton, prefixed to the edition of his works published in 1740. Grown all to all ; from no onef vice exempt ; And most contemptible to shun contempt ;' His passion still, to covet gen'ral praise ; His life, to forfeit it a thousand ways; A constant bounty which no friend has made...
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Rambles Round Eton and Harrow

Alfred Rimmer - 1882 - 378 pages
...various aim at nothing new ; He'll shine a Tully and a Wilmot too.:> BURIED SUMS OF MONEY. 49 . . . with each gift of nature and of art, And wanting nothing but an honest heart ; • • • • A fool, with more of wit than half mankind, Too rash for thought, for action too...
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