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" Hear this, and tremble! you who 'scape the Laws. Yes, while I live, no rich or noble knave Shall walk the World, in credit, to his grave. To VIRTUE ONLY and HER FRIENDS A FRIEND, The World beside may murmur, or commend. "
Memorials and Correspondence of Charles James Fox - Page 159
by Charles James Fox - 1854
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Bell's Edition, Volumes 77-78

John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 480 pages
...laws. Yes, while I live^ no rich or noble knave Shall walk the world in credit to his grave : i2o 3 To Virtue only, and her friends a friend, The world beside may murmur or commend. H. ' Quid ? cum est Lucilius ausus Primus in hunc opens componere carmina morem, i Detrahere et pellem,...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections ..., Volume 5

Alexander Pope - 1804 - 190 pages
...the laws. Yes, while I live, no rich or noble knave Shall walk the world in credit to his grave : 120 To virtue only and her friends a friend, The world...that world can keep, Rolls o'er my grotto, and but sooths my sleep : There my retreat the best companions grace, 12* Chiefs out of war, and statesmen...
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The poets of Great Britain complete from Chaucer to Churchill, Volume 40

John Bell - 1807 - 562 pages
...who 'scape the laws. Yes, while I Jive, no rich or noble knave Shall walk the world in credit to his grave : To Virtue only, and her friends a friend,...that world can keep, Rolls o'er my grotto, and but sooths my sleep : There my retreat the best companions grace, Chiefi out of war, and mtesmen out of...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...Shall walk the world in credit to his grave : To Virtue only and her friends a friend, The world heside may murmur or commend. Know, all the distant din that world can keep, Rolls o'er my grotto, and hut soothes my jleep.— There my retreat the best companions grace, Chiefs out of war, and statesmen...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1808 - 702 pages
...who 'scape the laws. Yen, while I live, no rich or noble knave Shall walk the world in credit to his grave: To virtue only and her friends a friend, The...commend. Know, all the distant din that world can keep, Hulls o'er my grotto, and but sooths my sleep. There, my retreat the best companions grace, Chiefs...
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The Belfast Monthly Magazine, Volume 7

1811 - 538 pages
...induce us to believe t ii-n we continue to receive I ht support of the sound part of the community. " To virtue only, and her friends a friend, The world beside may murmur or com* mend." If the people do not support us, *e may cease from the labour of toiling in vain, but we...
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La Belle Assemblée, Volume 6

1809 - 402 pages
...Shall walk the world in credit to his grave. To virtue only and her friends a friend, The world besides may murmur or commend. Know, all the distant din that world can keep, Rolls o'er my grotto, and but sooths my sleep, There, my retreat the best companions grace, Chiefs out of war, and statesmen out...
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Elegant Extracts, Volumes 1-2

Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...world in credit to. his grave. To virtue only and her friends a friend, The world beside may murincr or commend. Know, all the distant din that world can keep, Rolls o'er my grotto, and but sooths my sleep. There, my retreat the best companions grace, Chiefs out of war, and statesmen out...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 12

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 pages
...I live, no rich or noble knave Shall walk the world in credit, to his grave. 2 To Virtue only ™d her friends a friend, The world beside may murmur...commend. Know, all the distant din that world can keep, Hulls o'er my grotto, and but sooths my sleep. s There, my retreat the best companions grace, Chiefs...
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The ruminator, a series of moral, critical and sentimental essays, Volume 1

sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.) - 1813 - 326 pages
...placuisse viris noil ultima laus est. Hor. 32. Character of, and extracts from, Ilabingdon's Castara. " To virtue only and her friends a friend, The world beside may murmur or commend," Pope. 33. Rank, and Kiches, and Ease of Heart, not favourable to Intellectual Exertion. " Sed quz Tibur...
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