 Refuse his age the needful hours of rest? Punish a body which he could not please; Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease ? And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeathered two-legged thing, a son; Got, while his soul did huddled notions...  The Works of Alexander Pope - Page 37by Alexander Pope - 1822Full view - About this book
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1777 - 644 pages
...ease .' And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd, two-legg'd thing, a son ; 170 Got while his soul did huddled notions try, And born a shapeless lump, like Anarchy. In friendship false, implacable in hate, Resolv'd to ruin or to rule the state. To compass this the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1797 - 472 pages
...eloquence and energy, there is one fentence to which I cannot fubfcribe : " Dryden, Handing in the higheft place, was in no danger from his contemporaries." Where then was Milton ? Dryden himfelf yielded the firft place to Milton. VER. 248. Help'd to bury~] Mr. Dryden, after having lived... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 606 pages
...prodigal of ease ? " And all, to leave what with his toil he won, " To that unfeather'd two-legg'd thing, a son ; " Got while his soul did huddled notions try, " And born a shapeless lump, like anarchy." This .unfeather'd twoJlgg'd thing (which, however, is only Aristotle's definition of man,) was married... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - English prose literature - 1800 - 601 pages
...prodigal of ease ? " And all, to leave what with his toil he won, " To that unfeather'd two-legg'd thing, a son ; " Got while his soul did huddled notions...try, *' And born a shapeless lump, like anarchy." This unfeather'd two-legg'd thing (which, however, is only Aristotle's definition of man,) was married... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 622 pages
...prodigal of ease ? " And all, to leave what with his toil he won, " To that unfcathcr'd two-lcgg'd thing, a son ; " Got while his soul did huddled notions try, " And born a shapeless lump, like anarchy." This unfeather'd two-lrgg'd thing (which, however, ii only Aristotle's definition of man,) was married... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...Lord Ashley, his father : And all to leave, what with his toil he won, To that unfeatherM, two-legg'd thing, a son ; Got while his soul did huddled notions try, And born a shapeless lump, like anarchy. , r •? ; .o- • •) T' : •• i >t •? ' •' R 2 But • . »| I '<i i. I - • * The dramatic... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 382 pages
...life, yet prodigal of ease? And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd, two legg'd thing, a son ; Got while his soul did huddled notions try, And bora a shapeless lump, like Anarchy. In friendship false, implacable in hate, Resolv'd to ruin or to... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 476 pages
...famous statesman. Note IX. And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unf eathered, two-legged thing, a son ; Got while his soul did huddled notions try, And born a shapeless lump, like anarchy. — P. 222. Anthony Ashley Cooper, second Earl of Shaftesbury, and son of the great statesman, whom... | |
 | John Dryden, Thomas Park - 1808 - 374 pages
...yet prodigal of ease ? And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd, two legg'd thing, a son ; Got while his soul did huddled notions try, And born a shapeless lump, like Anarchy. In friendship false, implacable in hate, Resolv'd to min or to rule the state. To compass this the... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 482 pages
...famous statesman. Note IX. And all to leave what with his toil he von, To that unfeathered, two-legged thing, a son ; Got while his soul did huddled notions try, And born a shapeless lamp, like anarchy. — P. 222. Anthony Ashley Cooper, second Earl of Shaftesbury, and son «f the... | |
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