 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
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...life, yet prodigal of ease1 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. In friendship false, implacable in hate ; Resolv'd to ruin or to rule the state: To compass this, the... | |
 | John Dryden - 1855 - 350 pages
...And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd two-legg'd thing, a sou ; 170 ' Oot, while his soul did huddled notions try; And born a shapeless lump, like anarchy. In friendship false, implacable in hate ; Resolved to ruin, or to rule the state. 1 To compass this,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pages
...life, yet prodigal of case, And all to leave what with such 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 bate, Resolv'd to ruin or to rule the state, To compass this the... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 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 born a shapeless lump, like anarchy. In friendship false, implacable in hate ; Resolved to ruin or to rule the state. To compass this the... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1863 - 722 pages
...life, yet prodigal of ease? And ail to leave what witli lus toil he won, To that nnfeather'd two-lcgg'd thing, a son; Got, while his soul did huddled notions try. And born a shapeless lump, like anarehy. In friendship false, implacable in hate; Resolv'd to ruin or to rule the state. 1. Le duc... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1863 - 738 pages
...life, yet prodigal of ease? And ail 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 sliapeless lump, like anarchy. In friendship false, implacable in hate; Resolv'd lo ruin or to rule... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1866 - 442 pages
...ease? And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd two-legg'd thing, a son; Gut, 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. et ranime les factions... | |
 | John Dryden - 1867 - 556 pages
...darksome house of mortal dfew:" 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 ; Resolved to ruin or to rule the state. To compass this the... | |
 | Walter Scott, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William) Turner - Demonology - 1869 - 486 pages
...life, yet prodigal of ease F 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."} 1 See Dryden's Works, vol. ix., pp. 372 et seq.; also p. 41S not in the plan, but in the power of execution.... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1871 - 586 pages
...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 try, And born a shapeless lump, like anarchy. In friendship false, implacable in hate, Resolved to ruin or to rule the state,' In squandering wealth... | |
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