...Whigs and Tories : \Vns cheerful to his dying day ; And friends would let him have his way. ' He gave was in these words : ' Lord God, deliver show'd by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much. That kingdom he hath left his debtor, I wish...

...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. That kingdom he hath left his debtor, I wish...

...for being disappointed," he wrote Pope in 1725. And when Swift writes of himself as one who "... gave the little wealth he had To build a house for fools and mad; And showed by one satiric touch No nation needed them so much," he seems to me to be merely another practical...

...His reason did give way. He left a fortune of ten thousand pounds for a lunatic asylum in Dublin. " He left the little wealth he had To build a house for fools or mad, To show, by one satiric touch. No nation wanted one so much." His epitaph reads: " Here lies...

...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 showed by one satiric touch No nation wanted it so much. That kingdom he had left his debtor, I wish...

...objective statement of some of the existing conditions of thought. NOTES NOTES NOTE i, page 3. " 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." Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift. NOTE 2,...

...satirist; but he commences this lecture with a thrust that rivals Dean Swift's, which he quotes: " 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." Miss Ingersoll, says the lecturer, gave...

...services to Ireland. And it ends with the lines best known, perhaps, and oftenest quoted of all: He gave the little wealth he had To build a house for fools and mad, And showed by one satiric touch No nation wanted it so much. This, you know, states a fact; for thus did...

...satirist; but he commences this lecture with a thrust that rivals Dean Swift's, which he quotes : "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." Miss Ingersoll, says the lecturer, gave...

...offended with a jest; But langhed to hear an idiot quote A verse from Horace learned by rote. He gave the little wealth he had To build a house for fools and mad, And showed by one satiric touch No nation wanted it so much.' Pointing once to a tree, whose upper branches...