 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - Lake District (England) - 1850 - 340 pages
...seemed less to care how posterity would treat his name. " 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.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 512 pages
...here. This clew once'found unravels all the rest, The prospect clears, and Wharton stands confessed. Wharton ! the scorn and wonder of our days, 180 Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise ; Bom with whate'er could win it from the wise, Women and fools must like him, or he dies : Though... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...with times. Search then the ruling passion. There alone The wild are constant, and the cunning known. This clue once found unravels all the rest; The prospect clears, and Wharton stands confest ; WJiarton! the scorn' and wonder' of our days, s Contempt. Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise.... | |
 | George William Frederick Howard Earl of Carlisle - Slavery - 1851 - 54 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... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Ethics - 1851 - 480 pages
...stands confessed, — Wharton, the scorn and wonder of our days, Whose ruling passion was the last of praise. Born with whate'er could win it from the wise, Women and fools must like him, or he dies. Ask you why Wharton broke throngh every rule ? 'T was all for fear the knaves should call... | |
 | Henry Schroeder - 1852 - 424 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...cunning known , The fool consistent, and the false sincere ; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers mirth and * Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise ; Born with whate'er could win it from the wise, Women... | |
 | Henry Schroder - Yorkshire (England) - 1852 - 430 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 lie spoke, The club must hail him master of the joke.... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Ethics - 1852 - 480 pages
...rest, The prospect clears, and Wharton stands confessed, — 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. Ask you why Wharton broke through every rule * 'T was all for fear the knaves should call... | |
 | Edward Young - English poetry - 1852 - 528 pages
...with some exaggeration, many years after thus portrayed : " 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 senators hung on all he spoke, The club must hail him master of the joke.... | |
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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... 
