 | Robert Chambers - 1837 - 342 strani
...by fools whom still he found too late ; He had his jest, and they had his estate. He laugh'd himself from court, then sought relief By forming parties, but could ne'er be chief: Thus wicked but in will, of means bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left. The difference... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1837 - 350 strani
...by fools whom still he found too late ; He nad his jest, and they had his estate. He laugh'd himself from court, then sought relief By forming parties, but could ne'er be chief: Thus wicked but in will, of means bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left. The difference... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 372 strani
...fools, whom still he found too late ; He had his jest, and they had his estate. He laugh'd himself from court, then sought relief By forming parties,...Thus, wicked but in will, of means bereft, He left no faction, but of that was left. DESCRIPTION OF LYCURGUS KINO OF THRACE, AND OF IMC ' TRIOS E1NO OF... | |
 | Johnstone - 1840 - 386 strani
...by fools, whom still he found too late, He had his jest, and they had his estate He laugh'd himself from Court, then sought relief, By forming parties, but could ne'er be chief ; * * * ,* * * Thus wicked but in will, of means bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left."... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1841 - 844 strani
...fools, whom still he found too late ; He liad his jest, and they had his estate. He langh'd himself from court, then sought relief By forming parties,...bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left f[» This last couplet is borrowed from w>mo lines under a portrait of the Sultan Mustapha 1.. before... | |
 | 1841 - 500 strani
...by fools, whom still he found too late, He had his jest, and they had his estate; He laughed himself from court, then sought relief, By forming parties, but could ne'er be chief. Thus wicked but in will, of means bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left." Jlbialom and... | |
 | John Fisher Murray - 1842 - 322 strani
...by fools, whom still he found too late, He had his jest, and they had his estate. He laugh'd himself from court, then sought relief By forming parties,...bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left." present domain was formerly the property of the Friends, descendants of the celebrated Dr. John Friend,... | |
 | 1842 - 712 strani
...laughed himself from court; then sought relief By forming parlies, but could ne'er bo chief; For eplte of him the weight of business fell On Absalom and...bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left." 1842.1 Churchill. " Next day the post-boy winde his horn, And rides through Dover in the morn : Mordauto's... | |
 | Readings - 1843 - 466 strani
...estate. He laugh'd himself from court; then sought relief By forming parties, but could ne'er be chief. Thus wicked but in will, of means bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left. Lyrical poetry is capable of numerous subdivisions, •which it would be tedious to specify. The most... | |
 | Elizabeth Stone - 1845 - 472 strani
...sought relief By forming parties, but could ne'er be chief : For, spite of him, the weight of bus'ness fell On Absalom and wise Achitophel :* Thus, wicked...bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left." On the death of Charles, Buckingham retired from Court to live on the remnant of his once magnificent... | |
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He laughed himself from court; then sought relief By forming parties, but could ne'er be chief; For, spite of him, the weight of business fell On Absalom, and wise Achitophel ; Thus, wicked but in will, of means bereft, He left not faction, but of that... 
