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" Tis from high life high characters are drawn ; A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn : A judge is just, a chancellor juster still ; A gownman learn'd ; a bishop what you will ; Wise if a minister ; but if a king, More wise, more learn'd, more just,... "
Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Alexander Pope, Esq - Page 28
by William Ayre, Edmund Curll - 1745
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Letters to and from Henrietta, Countess of Suffolk, and Her Second ..., Volume 1

Henrietta Hobart Howard Countess of Suffolk - 1824 - 478 pages
...the same sentiment in his Epistle to Lord Cobham : " "Pis from high life high characters are drawn, A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn. A judge is just, a chancellor juster still ; A gownman learn'd ; a bishop what you will ; Wise if a minister ;...
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Remarks on the legality and expediency of prosecutions for religious opinion ...

Jonathan Duncan - Dissenters, Religious - 1825 - 274 pages
...section always imitate the manners of the superior. 'Tis from high life high characters are drawn : A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn : A judge is just, a chancellor juster still, A gownman learned, a bishop what you will : Wise if a minister, but...
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The British anthology; or, Poetical library, Volumes 3-4

British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...task to prove One action, conduct, one heroic love. Tis from high life high characters are drawn ; A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn : A judge is just, a chancellor juster still ; A gownman learn'd ; a bishop what you will ; Wise if a minister ;...
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Holly-grove: An Epithalamic Satire : with Anecdotical Notes, Part I

Thomas Little - 1828 - 286 pages
...No MONARCH'S presence aw'd his subject-beasts. " 'Tis from high-life, high characters are drawn. " A saint in crape, is twice a saint in lawn. " A judge is just — a chancellor, jwster still — • < • • " A gown-man, learn'd — a bishop, what you...
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Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces, in Prose and Verse, for the ...

William Scott - Elocution - 1829 - 420 pages
...The roaring vessel rush'd into the main Thomson. 17. 'Tis from high life high characters are drawn; A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn. A judge is just; a chancellor juster Still ; A gownman learn'd ; a bishop— what you will : Wise, if a minister;...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...task to prove One action, conduct ; one, heroic love. 'Tis from high life high characters are drawn, we fix, with sympathy we burn ; Each virtue in each p just, a chancellor juster still; A gownman learn'il, a bishop what you will ; Vise, if a minister ;...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 28

Scotland - 1830 - 1046 pages
...poet, ascribe it to the influence of station : — " Tis from high life liigh characters are drawn : A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn; A judge is just ; a chancellor j uster still ; A gownman learn'd ; a bishop — what you will : Wise, if a minister...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 28

Scottish periodicals - 1830 - 1034 pages
...poet, ascribe it to the influence of station : — " "Tis from high life high characters are drawn : A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn; A judge ii just ; a chancellor j uster still ; A gotvnman learn 'd ; a bishop — what you will : Wise, if...
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The Poetical Works of A. Pope: Including His Translation of Homer , to which ...

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 502 pages
...task to prove One action, conduct ; one, heroic love. 'Tis from high life high characters are drawn, A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn; A judge is just, a chancellor juster still ; A gownman learn'd, a hishop what you will; Wise, if a minister ;...
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Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson ...

John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...task to prove One action, conduct; one, heroic love. 'Tis from high life high characters are drawn: y concave towering high. As when far off at sea a flee just, a chancellor juster still ; A gownman learn 'd ; a bishop, what you will ; Wise, if a minister;...
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