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" Wharton, the scorn and wonder of our days, Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise: Born with whate'er could win it from the wise, Women and fools must like him or he dies; Though wondering senates hung on all he spoke, The club must hail him master... "
The poetical works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions ... - Page 166
by Alexander Pope - 1807
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The antiquarian itinerary [by J.S. Storer].

James Sargant Storer - 1818 - 226 pages
...Pope — Wharton, the scorn and wonder of our days, Whose ruling passion was the love of praise : Boru with whate'er could win it from the wise, Women and fools must like him, or he dies. Though wondering senates hung on all he spoke, The cluh must hail him master of the joke....
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Introduction to the original delineations ... intituled The beauties of ...

James Norris Brewer - 1801 - 1208 pages
...Essays. WHARTON, the scorn and wonder of our djyj, Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise; Bora with whate'er could win it from the wise, Women and fools must like him, or he dies. Though wondering senates hung on all he spoke, The club must hail him master of the joke....
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 1

John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...rest, Tile prospect clears, and Wliarton stands confest. Wharton, the scorn and wonder of our days, Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise ; Born...it from the wise, Women and fools must like him, or he dies : Though wondering senates hung on all he spoke, The club must hail him master of the joke....
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The North American Review, Volume 79

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1854 - 580 pages
...to the time and events in which this hero nourished. " Wharton ! the scorn and wonder of our days, Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise : Born...it from the wise, Women and fools must like him, or he dies : Though wondering senates hung on all he spoke, The club must hail hitn master of the joke....
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 5

John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 402 pages
...cunning known ; The fool consistent, and the false sincere ; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here. This clue once found, unravels all the rest,...confest. Wharton, the scorn and wonder of our days, Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise ; Born with whate'er could win it from the wise, 'Women...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 3

Alexander Pope - 1822 - 370 pages
...VOL. III. O The Fool consistent, and the False sincere ; 176 Priests, Princes, Women, no Dissemblers here. This clue once found, unravels all the rest,...days, 180 Whose Ruling Passion was the Lust of Praise : NOTES. book which they read, some early conversation which they heard, or some accident which excited...
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The Works of Alexander Pope;

Alexander Pope - 1822 - 368 pages
...III. 0 III. The Fool consistent, and the False sincere ; 176 Priests, Princes, Women, no Dissemblers here. This clue once found, unravels all the rest,...days, 180 Whose Ruling Passion was the Lust of Praise : book which they read, some early conversation which they heard, or some accident which excited ardour...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 3

Alexander Pope - 1822 - 372 pages
...appetite for it ; where the strength of the passion had destroyed all the delicacy of the sensation. W. Born with whate'er could win it from the Wise, Women and Fools must like him, or he dies ; Tho' wondring Senates hung on all he spoke, The Club must hail him master of the joke. 185...
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...cunning known ; The fool consistent, and the false sincere ; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here. This clue once found unravels all the rest, The prospect clears, and Wharton stands confess'd. Wharton ! the scorn and wonder of our days, Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise:...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...The fool consistent, and the false sincere ; Priests, princes, women no dissemblers here. This eine Nyseian isle Girt with the river Triton, where old Cham, (Whom Gentiles Ammon call, and Libyan Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise : Born with whate'er could win it from the wise, Women...
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