| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 562 páginas
...could be found, To sell him for six hundred pound. " Had he but spar'd his tongue and pen. He inieht have rose like other men : But power was never in his thought, And wealth he valued not a groat : Ingratitude he often found, And pity'd those who meant the wound ; But kept the... | |
| William Somervile - 1811 - 312 páginas
...price upon his head ; but not a traitor could be found, to sell him for six hundred pound. Had he but spar'd his tongue and pen, he might have rose like...but power was never in his thought, and wealth he valued not a groat: ingratitude he often found, and pity'd those who meant the svound; but kept the... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1812 - 420 páginas
...price upon his head ! But not a traitor could be found, To sell him for six hundred pound. " Had he but spar'd his tongue and pen, He might have rose like other men : * Dr Delany, in the close of his eighth letter, after having emnne."ted the friends with whom the... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 534 páginas
...coining halfpence for Ireland ; but in neither kingdom was the Dean discovered. — H. " Had he but spar'd his tongue and pen, He might have rose like...And pitied those who meant the wound : But kept the tenor of his mind, To merit well of human kind : Nor made a sacrifice of those "Who still were true,... | |
| Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 524 páginas
...coining halfpence for Ireland ; but in neither kingdom was the Dean discovered. — H. " Had he but spa/d his tongue and pen, He might have rose like other...And pitied those who meant the wound : But kept the tenor of his mind, To merit well of human kind : Nor made a sacrifice of those Who still were true,... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 páginas
...price upon his head : But not a traitor could be found, To sell him for six hundred pound. " Had he but spar'd his tongue and pen, He might have rose like other men : But pow'r was never in his thought, And wealth he valued not a groat : Ingratitude he often found, And... | |
| John Aikin - 1820 - 832 páginas
...price upon his head ; But not a traitor could be found, To sell him for six hundred pound. " Had he but gions here Breathe forth elixir pure, and rivers run Potable gold, when with one virtuous touch valued not a groat : Ingratitude he often found, And pity'd those who meant the wound ; But kept the... | |
| John Aikin - 1821 - 402 páginas
...price upon his head ; But not a traitor could be found, To sell him for six hundred pound, " Had he but spar'd his tongue and pen, He might have rose like...But power was never in his thought, And wealth he valued not a groat : Ingratitude he often found, And pity 'd those who meant the wound ; But kept the... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 268 páginas
...his head : But not a traitor could be found, To sell him for six hundred pound. ' Had he but spared his tongue and pen, He might have rose like other...But power was never in his thought, And wealth he valued not a groat. Ingratitude he often found, And pitied those who meant the wound, But kept the... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 páginas
...price upon his head ; But not a traitor could be found To sell him for six hundred pound. " Had he but false, or more, than he. For 1 am sure, for aught that I Could in so short a time espy, valued not a groat : Ingratitude he often found, And pity'd those who meant the wound ; But kept the... | |
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