 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...The fool consistent, and the false sincere ; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here. This clew tle to it by all the offices of true friendship. ' cnnfesv'd. Wharton ! the scorn and wonder of our days, ISO Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise... | |
 | Scotland - 1834 - 896 pages
...cunning known; The fool consistent, and the false sincere, Priests, princes, women, all consistent here ! This clue once found, unravels all the rest, The prospect clears, and phantom stands confest. # # # # # And you, great Cobham ! to the latest breath Shall feel your ruling... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 pages
...fool consistent, and the false sincere : 176 Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here. This clew, once found, unravels all the rest, The prospect clears, and Wharton stands confess'd. 178 Wharton stands confess'd. One of the most remarkable instances on record of the abuse... | |
 | English periodicals - 1836 - 726 pages
...eloquence : — " Wharton ! (says Pope) the scorn and wonder of our days, Whose ruling passion was a lust of praise; Born with whate'er could win it from the wise ; Women and fools must like him, or he dies. Though raptured senates hung on all he spoke, /•\ \*f* The club must hail him master of... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 332 pages
...here. This clew once found unravels all the rest, The prospect clears, and Wharton stands confess'd. Wharton ! the scorn and wonder of our days, 180 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1836 - 486 pages
...there alone The wild are constant, and the cunning known, The fool consistent, and the false sincere : This clue once found unravels all the rest, The prospect clears, and Wharton stands confest." POPE. I AM one of those who do not think that mankind are exactly governed by reason or a cool calculation... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1836 - 1000 pages
...there alone The wild are constant, and the cunning known, The fool consistent, and the false sincere : This clue once found unravels all the rest, The prospect clears, and Wharton stands confest." POPE. I AM one of those who do not think that mankind are exactly governed by reason or a cool calculation... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1836 - 486 pages
...there alone The wild are constant, and the cunning known, The fool consistent, and the false sincere : This clue once found unravels all the rest, The prospect clears, and Wharton stands contest." POPE. I AM one of those who do not think that mankind are exactly governed by reason or a... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 502 pages
...The fool consistent, and the false sincere ; Priests, princes, women, no dissemhlers here. This clew confess'd. Wharton ! the scorn and wonder of our days, ISO Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise;... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - Intellect - 1837 - 510 pages
...applause. "Search then the ruling passion. There alone "The wild are constant, and the cunning known ; "This clue once found unravels all the rest, "The...confest. "Wharton, the scorn and wonder of our days, "Whose ruling passion was the LUST OF PRAISE. "Born with what'er could win it from the wise, "Women... | |
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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... 
