| English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...proud aleove, The bower of wanton Shrewsbury and Love Or just as gay, at council, in a ring Of mimick'd and Melind, And Siititla. be valued more. There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends, And fame, this lord of useless thousands... | |
| John Stoughton - 1852 - 290 pages
...feeble figure of the wretchedly rough and uneasy conscience on which his perishing soul is thrown. " No wit to flatter left of all his store ; No fool to laugh at, which he valued more ; There, vector of his health, of fortune, friends, And fame, this lord of useless thousands ends." Now go to... | |
| Bernard Burke - Nobility - 1853 - 334 pages
...alcove, The bow'r of wanton Shrewsbury and love ; Or just as gay at council, in a ring Of mimicked statesmen, and their merry king. No wit to flatter...friends, And fame, this lord of useless thousands ends." John V illiers, who assumed, on questionable right, the dignities of Viscount Purbeck and Earl of Buckingham,... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - American literature - 1883 - 544 pages
...Shrewsbury and love ! Or just as gay at council 'mid the ring Of mimic statesmen and their merry king 1 No wit to flatter left of all his store ; No fool...There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends And fume, the lord of useless thousands ends ! " POPE, Moral Essays. The charming walk at Lord Orkney's,... | |
| Richard Vickerman Taylor - Yorkshire (England) - 1883 - 376 pages
...at Kirbymoorside, near Pickering, on the 16th of April, 1687, aged 60, in extreme want and misery. " No wit to flatter left of all his store; No fool to...which he valued more ; , There, victor of his health, his fortune, friends, And fame, this Lord of useless thousands ends." For a memoir of the Duke of Buckingham,... | |
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1884 - 474 pages
...hower of wanton Shrewshury and love ; Or just as gay at council, in a ring Of mimicked statesmen, and a merry king ; No wit to flatter left of all his store,...There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends, And tame, this lord of useless thousands ends ! And therefore, in the name of dulness, be The well-hung... | |
| William Henry Davenport Adams - Great Britain - 1885 - 440 pages
...and that soul of whim I 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 ! " Says Horace Walpole, speaking of the Duke:—" His portrait has been drawn by four masterly hands... | |
| Thomas Arnold - English literature - 1885 - 670 pages
...and that soul of whim 1 Gallant and gay, in Cliveden's proud alcove, Tho bower of wanton Shrewsbury and love ; Or just as gay at council, in a ring Of mimic statesmen, and their merry king. No wit to natter left of all his store ! No fool to laugh at, which he valued more ; There, victor of his health,... | |
| Walter Thornbury - London (England) - 1879 - 604 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 ! " Though the first line, as it has often been observed, embodies a poetical fiction, the picture... | |
| George Frank - Ryedale (England) - 1888 - 268 pages
...and that soul of whim ! Gallant and gay in Clivedon'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." As the house in which he died remains in much the same condition as then, the poetical licence, not... | |
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