 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 468 pages
...Absalom and Achitophel; and particularly by four lines in it that related to Lord Ashley, his father: " 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... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1824 - 406 pages
...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 unfeather'd, two legged thing, a son ; Got while his soul did huddled notions try, And born a shapeless lump, like Anarchy.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...hours of rest ? Punish a body which he could not please ; Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease ? d, From two-legg'd thing, a son; Got while his soul did huddled notions try; And born a shapeless lump, like... | |
 | James Granger - Great Britain - 1824 - 650 pages
...Shaftesbury, speaks with great contempt of Lord Ashley : " Bankrupt of life, and prodigal of ease: And all to leave what with his toil he won. To that unfeather'd two-legg'd thing a son." ABSALOM and Ann r. Here the poet evidently alludes to Diogenes's cock, with... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...hours of rest ? Punish a body whieh he eotdd not please ; Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease ? at two-legg'd thing, a son ; Got while his soul did huddled notions try ; And born a shapeless lump, like... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...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 unfeather'd two-legged thing, a son. Dryden. ccccxcvn. The world is so full of ill-nature, that I have lampoons... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 pages
...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 unfcather'd two-legged thing, a son. Dryden. CCCCXCVlL The world is so full of ill-nature, that l have... | |
 | John Dryden - 1832 - 342 pages
...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 unfeather'd two-legg'd thing, a son ; 170 Got, while his soul did huddled notions try; And born a shapeless lump,... | |
 | Walter Scott - English literature - 1834 - 516 pages
...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 unfeather'd two-legg'd thing-, a son ; Got, while his soul did huddled notions try ; And born a shapeless lump,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 478 pages
...needful hours of rest? Punish a hody which he could not please ; Bankrupt of 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 ; Such ts the chamcter given hy my amiahle and ingenious friend, Sir John Dalrympie.... | |
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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 unfeather'd two-legg'd thing, a son ; Got while his soul did huddled notions... 
