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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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Wit and Humor

Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 290 pages
...Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here. This clue once found, unravels all the rest, The prospact clears, and Wharton stands 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 London Quarterly Review, Volume 77

1846 - 352 pages
...inexplicable ; but we may say as Pope did of another noble and eccentric wit — the Duke of Wharton — 'This clue, once found, unravels all the rest; The prospect clears, and Walpole stands confest.' If it be said that his animosity against the public men of his long day is...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 77

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1846 - 636 pages
...inexplicable ; but we may say as Pope did of another noble and eccentric wit — the Duke of Wharton — ' This clue, once found, unravels all the rest ; The prospect clears, and Walpole stands confest.' If it be said that his animosity against the public men of his long day is...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 77

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1846 - 638 pages
...inexplicable ; but we may say as Pope did of another noble and eccentric wit — the Duke of Wharton — ' This clue, once found, unravels all the rest ; The prospect clears, and Walpole stands confest.' If it be said that his animosity against the public men of his long day is...
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The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by ..., Volume 4

Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 pages
...were VOL. IV. O 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, 180 Whose Ruling Passion was the lust of praise...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author

Alexander Pope - 1848 - 642 pages
...here. This clew once found uoravels 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...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Revised and arranged expressly for the ...

Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 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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An Introduction to the Study of the Mind: Designed Especially for the Senior ...

Daniel Bishop - Psychology - 1849 - 190 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 each one stands confess'd. 347. The miscalled glory to which the warrior aspires " is not a mere inspiring...
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The Philosophy of the Active and Moral Powers of Man

Dugald Stewart - Ethics - 1849 - 450 pages
...The fool consistent, and the false sincere ; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here. This clew once found unravels all the rest, The prospect clears, and Wharton stands confessed. Wharton. the scorn and wonder of our days, Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise....
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Two lectures, on the poetry of Pope, and on his own travels in ..., Volume 1

George William F. Howard (7th earl of Carlisle.) - 1850 - 52 pages
...able, versatile, and unprincipled Duke of Wharton ; — " 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 ; Tho' wondering senates hung on all he spoke, The club must hail him master of the joke. [This...
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