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" Of mimic statesmen, and their merry king. No wit to flatter, left of all his store ! No fool to laugh at, which he valued more. There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends, And fame ; this lord of useless thousands ends. "
The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Ed. by the Rev. H. F. Cary - Page 277
by Alexander Pope - 1867 - 485 pages
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Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson ...

John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...bower of wanton Shrewsbury and Love 878 MORAL ESSAYS. Or just as gay, at council, in a ring Of mimick'd e viator of his health, of fortune, friends, And fame, this lord of useless thousands ends. His grace's...
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Evenings with the old story tellers, select tales from the Gesta Romanorum ...

Romani - 1845 - 796 pages
...and that soul of whim ! Gallant and gay, in Cliefden's proud alcove, The bower of wanton Shrewsbury and love ; Or just as gay, at council, in a ring Of...friends, And fame, this lord of useless thousands ends. THE name of the " Man of Ross" was John Kyrle, He was born at the White-house in the parish of Dy mock,...
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Chronicles of Fashion: From the Time of Elizabeth to the Early ..., Volume 1

Elizabeth Stone - England - 1845 - 472 pages
...and that soul of whim ! Gallant and gay, in Cliveden's proud alcove, The bower of wanton Shrewsbury and love ; Or just as gay at council, in a ring Of...friends, And fame, this lord of useless thousands ends." Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, is known as but another name for the extremity of licentiousness, debauchery,...
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Wit and Humor

Leigh Hunt - Humor - 1846 - 282 pages
...alcove, The bower of wanton Shrewsbury and love ; Or just as gay at council, in a ring Of mimick'd statesmen, and their merry king. No wit to flatter,...friends, And fame, this lord of useless thousands ends. i4 In the wont inn's worst room, $fc.—\t is a pity that Pope wrote this character of Buckingham after...
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Wit and Humour, Selected from the English Poets: With an Illustrative Essay ...

Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 416 pages
...alcove, The bower of wanton Shrewsbury and love ; Or just as gay at council, in a ring Of mimick'd statesmen, and their merry king. No wit to flatter,...friends, And fame, this lord of useless thousands ends. i5 In the worst inn's worst room, &c. — It is 3 pity that Pope wrote this character of Buckingham...
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Memoirs of the Court of Charles the Second, Volume 1

Anthony Hamilton (Count), Charles II (King of England), Thomas Blount - Gramont, Philibert, comte de, 1621-1707 - 1846 - 572 pages
...alcove, The bower of wanton Shrewsbury and love ; Or, just as gay, at council, in a ring Of mimic'd statesmen, and their merry king. No wit, to flatter,...of fortune, friends, And fame, this lord of useless thousand ends." Moral Essags, Epist. iii. 1. 299. He died 16th April, 1688, at the house of a tenant,...
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Wit and Humour, Selected from the English Poets: With an Illustrative Essay ...

Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 386 pages
...Or just as gay at council, in a ring Of mimick'd statesmen, and their merry king. No wit to natter, left of all his store ! No fool to laugh at, which...friends, And fame, this lord of useless thousands ends. i5 In the worst inn's worst room, &c. — It is a pity that Pope wrote this character of Buckingham...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: To which is Prefixed, a Life of the ...

Alexander Pope - 1846 - 328 pages
...their merry king; 310 No wit to flatter, left of all his store; No fool to laugh at, which he valu'd more ; There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends,...fate sage Cutler could foresee, And well (he thought) advis'd him, * Live like me.' As well his Grace replied, 'Like you, sir John ? That I can do, when...
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Wit and Humor

Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 290 pages
...gay at council, in a ring Of mimick'd statesmen, and their merry king. No wit to flatter, left of ail his store ! No fool to laugh at, which he valued more....friends, And fame, this lord of useless thousands ends. 14 In the worst inn's worst room, Sfc. — ]t is a pity that Pope wrote this character of Buckingham...
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The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by ..., Volume 4

Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 pages
...Shrewsbury, a woman abanOr just as gay, at council, in a ring Of mimic statesmen, and their merry king. 310 No wit to flatter, left of all his store ! No fool...ends. His Grace's fate sage Cutler could foresee, 315 And well (he thought) advis'd him, " Live like me." As well his Grace replied : " Like you, Sir...
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