 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...cunning known ; The fool consistent, and the false sincere ; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers visionary ghosts ; Fair pensive youths, and soft enamour'd maid* ; And wit WIIAKTON stands confest. Wharton, the scorn and wonder of our days, Whose ruling passion was the lust... | |
 | Joseph Mendham - 1839 - 222 pages
...cunning known ; The fool consistent, and the false sincere ; [Popes, Papists, Jesuits,] no dissemblers here. This clue once found, unravels all the rest, The prospect clears, and [Rome's church] stands confest. My object in the present work has limited me to the venal circumstance... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - Mental efficiency - 1840 - 420 pages
...Search then the ruling passion. There alone The wild are constant and the cunning known ; This clew, 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 or PRAISE.... | |
 | Thomas C. Upham - 1841 - 496 pages
...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. Born...from the wise, « Women and fools must like him, or he dies." The inordinate exercise of this propensity, as is correctly intimated by Mr. Stewart, tends... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...cunning known; The fool consistent, and the false sincere ; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers e Wharlon stands confest. Wharlon, the scorn and wonder of our days. Whose ruling passion was the lust... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - Intellect - 1841 - 538 pages
...Search then the ruling passion. There alone The wild are constant, and the cunning known ; This clew 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.... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - Intellect - 1841 - 512 pages
..."Search then the ruling passion. There alone The wild are constant, and the cunning known ; This clew, 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.... | |
 | John Close - 1842 - 290 pages
...it." Mr. Pope's description of him is extremely accurate : WHABTOX, the scorn and wonder of our dayi, 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;... | |
 | Lake District (England) - 1842 - 212 pages
...unenviable immortality. " Wharton, the scorn and wonder of our days, Whose ruling passion was the love of praise— * * * * Born with whate'er could win it from the wise, Women and fools must like him or he diesGrown all to all from no one vice exempt, And most contemptible to shun contempt ; His passion... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - Intellect - 1842 - 516 pages
...Search then the ruling passion. There alone The wild are constant, and the cunning known ; This clew once found, unravels all the rest, The prospect clears, and Wharton stands confess'd. W barton, the scorn and wonder of our days, Whose ruling passion was ihe LUST OF PRAISE.... | |
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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... 
