Though wit and art conspire to move your mind ; But dulness with obscenity must prove As shameful sure as impotence in love. In the fat age of pleasure, wealth, and ease, Sprung the rank weed, and thrived with large increase ; When love was all an easy... The Fortunate Union: A Romance - الصفحة 2131829عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - عدد الصفحات: 328
...the fat age of pleasure, wealth, and ease, Sprung the rank weed, and thriv'd with large increase : When love was all an easy monarch's care ; Seldom at council, never in a war ; Jilts rul'd the state, and statesmen farces writ ; Nay, wits had pensions, and young lords had wit... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - عدد الصفحات: 604
...'>•-.< age of pleasure, wealth, and ease, Sprank the rank weed, and thriv'd with large increase : ice to raise: What will not men attempt for sacred praise ? The love of prai Jilts rul'd the state, and statesmen farces writ; Nay, wits had pensions, and young lords had wit:... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - عدد الصفحات: 656
...fat age of pleasure, wealth and ease, Sprung the rank weed, and thriv'd with large increase ; WTien love was all an easy monarch's care, Seldom at council, never in a war : Jilts rul'd the state, and statesmen farces writ ; Nay wits had pensions, and young lords had wit... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 428
...fat age of pleasure, wealth, and ease, Sprung the rank weed, and thriv'd with large increase : 535 When love was all an easy Monarch's care ; Seldom at council, never in a war : Jilts rul'd the state', and statesmen farces writ : Nay wits had pensions, and young Lords had wit:... | |
| 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 284
...the fat age of pleasure, wealth, and ease, Sprung the rank weed, and thrived with large increase : "When love was all an easy monarch's care; Seldom at council, never in a war; Jilts ruled the state, and statesmen farces writ; Nay, wits had pensions, and young lords had wit;... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 426
...fat age of pleasure, wealth, and ease, Sprung the rank weed, and thriv'd with large increase : 535 When love was all an easy Monarch's care ; Seldom at council, never in a war : Jilts rul'd the state, and statesmen farces writ : Nay wits had pensions, and young Lords had wit... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 1062
...the fat age of pleasure, wealth, and ease, Sprang the rank weed, and thriv'd with large increase : us actions may as well be done By weaver's issue, as by prince's son. This ar Jilts ru IM the state, and statesmen farces writ; Nay wits had pensions, and young lords hue wit :... | |
| James Granger - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 446
...accomplishments, was elected a fellow of the Royal Society, soon after its incorporation by Charles II. * When love was all an easy monarch's care ; Seldom at council, never in a war. — FOTE. SIR EDWARD GAGE, bart. from the original at Hengrave. R. Cooper sc. 4to. in Gage's " History... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 400
...the necessity of, the subject of the third and last division, which is, on the Morals of the Critic. When love was all an easy Monarch's care; Seldom at council, never in a war: Jilts rul'd the state, and statesmen farces writ: Nay wits had pensions, and young Lords had wit: The... | |
| Richard Warner - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 434
...THE SECOND. Dr. Joseph Warton, in his remarks on those lines of Pope, in his " Essay on Criticism," " When love was all an easy monarch's care, • " Seldom at council, never in a war," observes, that the dissolute reign of Charles the Second justly deserved the satirical proscription... | |
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