 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1843 - 488 pages
...Government. — His refusal to comply with the summons. 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. Though wondering senates hung on all he spoke, The club must hail him master of the joke,... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - Intellect - 1843 - 504 pages
...confess'd. Wharton, the scorn and wonder of our days, Whose ruling passion was the LUST OF FRAISE. Born with whate'er could win it 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... | |
 | Charles Churchill, William Tooke - 1844 - 392 pages
...distinction of being poetically damned to everlasting fame. 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... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - Intellect - 1855 - 416 pages
...stands confess'd. Wharton, the scorn and wonder of our days, Whose ruling passion was the I.UST OP PRAISE. Born with whate'er could win it from the wise, Women and fools must like him, or he dies." § 199. Further explanatory remarks on this subject. The inordinate exercise of this propensity,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Table-talk - 1845 - 432 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... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - Intellect - 1845 - 488 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 PRAISB.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1846 - 328 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...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.... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 416 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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 386 pages
...the rest, The prospect clears, and Wharton 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.... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - Humor - 1846 - 282 pages
...Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here. This clue once found, unravels all the rest, The prospoct 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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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... 
