| John Aikin - 1821 - 402 страници
...whim ! What had the public done for him ? Mere envy, avarice, and pride : He gave it all — but first he dy'd. And had the Dean, in all the nation, No worthy...So ready to do strangers good, Forgetting his own flesh and blood !" Now Grub-street wits are all employ'd ; With elegies the town is cloy'd : Some paragraph... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 268 страници
...had the public done for him 1 Mere envy, avarice, and pride ; He gave it all — but first he died. And had the Dean in all the nation No worthy friend,...So ready to do strangers good, Forgetting his own flesh and blood !' Now Grub-street wits are all employ'd ; With elegies the town is cloy'd ; Some paragraph... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 страници
...whim ! What had the public done for him? Mere envy, avarice, and pride : He gave it all — but first T ; flesh and blood I" Now Grub-street wits are all employ'd ; With elegies the town is cloy'd : Some paragraph... | |
| Ebenezer Mack - 1824 - 292 страници
...had the public done for him .' Mere envy, avarice, and pride ! He gave it all — but first he died. And had the Dean, in all the nation. No worthy friend,...So ready to do strangers good, Forgetting his own flesh and blood !" Now Grub-Street wits are all employ 'd; With elegies the town is cloy'd ; You're... | |
| Richard Alfred Davenport - 1824 - 406 страници
...public uses ! there's a whim ! What had the public done for him ? He gave it all— but first he died. And had the Dean in all the nation No worthy friend,...So ready to do strangers good, Forgetting his own flesh and blood !' Now Grub-street wits are all employ'd; With elegies the town is cloy'd ; Some paragraph... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 страници
...had the publie done for him ? Mere envy, avariee, and pride : He gave it all— but first he died. fii-.i: and blood !" Now Grub-street wits are all employ'd ; With elegies the town is eloy'd : Some... | |
| John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - 1828 - 600 страници
...whim ! What had the public done for him ? Mere envy, avarice, and pride : He gave it all — but first he dy'd. And had the Dean, in all the nation, No worthy...So ready to do strangers good, Forgetting his own flesh and blood !" Now Grub-street wits are all employ'd ; With elegies the town is cloy'd : Some paragraph... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 страници
...avarice, and pride : lie gave it all — but first he died. And had the dean in all the nation íío, eak with sincere approbation and :al applause of your conduct, and join in giving y flesh and blood !' , . . Now C4irll (1) his ehop from rubbish drains : Three genuine tomes of Swift's... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 страници
...had the public done for him ? Mere envy, avarice, and pride: He gave it all — but first he died. And had the dean in all the nation No worthy friend, no poor relation? So ready to do strangers good, 1 Forgetting his own flesh and blood! " WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY. THE BALLAD OF BOUILLABAISSE. A... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1833 - 380 страници
...had the public done for him ? Mere envy, avarice, and pride : He gave it all — but first he died. And had the Dean, in all the nation, No worthy friend,...So ready to do strangers good, Forgetting his own flesh and blood !" Now, Grub-Street wits are all employ 'd ; With elegies the town is cloy'd : Some... | |
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