...Whigs and Tories : Was cheerful to his dying day ; And friends would let him have his way. ' He gave the little wealth he had To build a house for fools and mad ; And show'd by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much.' ALEXANDER POPE. [ALEXANDER POPE was bom...

...many more might have had something to say upon that head. The last phrase is significant, — He gave the little wealth he had To build a house for fools and mad ; And showed by one satiric touch No nation needed it so much, That kingdom he hath left his debtor, I wish...

...speak about ? Or have we eaten of the insane root That takes the reason prisoner ? SHAKSPEARE. He gave the little wealth he had To build a house for fools and mad; To show by one satiric touch No nation wanted it so much. SWIFT. INSTINCT. Beasts can like, but not...

...anticipation of his own fate. He himself assigned another reason. He says in his poem on his own death : " He left the little wealth he had To build a house for fools and mad, To show by one satiric touch No nation needed it so much." The paper of " Resolutions," of which a...

...Irishmen, and this is how he refers to his own charity and to the people whom he would benefit : " He gave the little wealth he had To build a house for fools and mad ; And show'd by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much." 1806.] [May, detail that, granted the possibility...

...and lunatics. Years before he had written a sort of epitaph upon himself, in which he says: " He gave the little wealth he had To build a house for fools and mad, To show, by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much." Swift's writings form a bulky collection....

...early as 1731 when he wrote the verses on his own death and described his determination thus, He gave the little wealth he had To build a house for fools and mad; And shewed by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much. This object he had afterward always in mind,...

...missed his aim, The world must own it to their shame, The praise is his, and theirs the blame. He gave the little wealth he had, To build a house for fools and mad ; To show, by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much. That kingdom he hath left his debtor,...

...avarice, and pride ; He gave it all—but first he died. And he closes the poem with the lines— He gave the little wealth he had To build a house for fools and mad ; To show by one satiric touch No nation wanted it so much. The last few years of his life were unutterab1y...

...Whigs and Tories j Was cheerful to his dying day ; And friends would let him have his way. ' He gave the little wealth he had To build a house for fools and mad ; And show'd by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much.' ALEXANDER POPE. [ALEXANDER POPE was born...