Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon: Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman ! who... Imagination and Fancy: Or, Selections from the English Poets, Illustrative ... - Página 32por Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 255 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Walter Scott - 1848 - 484 páginas
...thinking. Blest madman, who could every hour employ, With something new to wish, or to enjoy! Hailing and praising were his usual themes ; And both, to...desert. Beggar'd 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 rehof By forming... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1848 - 334 páginas
...every hour employ With something new to wish or to enjoy ; Bailing and praising were his usual themes ; So over violent, or over civil, That every man with...wealth was his peculiar art ; Nothing went unrewarded bnt desert. Beggar'd by fools, whom still he found too late, He had his jest, and they had his estate.... | |
| John Fisher Murray - 1849 - 388 páginas
...all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides a thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman ! who could every hour employ, With something...wish or to enjoy. Railing and praising were his usual thcmct, And both, to show his jndgment in extremes. So over violent, so over civil, That every man,... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 páginas
...freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman ! who could ev'ry hour employ With something new to winh, ed men in their days), will so Latin their tongues,...that the simple cannot but wonder at their talk, and over-violent, or over-civil, That ev'ry man with him was God or devil. In squandering wealth was his... | |
| Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 páginas
...all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking. Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman! who could every hour employ With something...themes; And both, to show his judgment, in extremes ; So over-violent, so over-civil, That every man with him was God or devil. In squandering wealth was his... | |
| Abraham Mills - 1851 - 602 páginas
...all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking. Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman! who could every hour employ With something...themes; And both, to show his judgment, in extremes ; So over-violent, so over-civil, That every man with him was God or devil. In squandering wealth was his... | |
| NBC University of the Air - 1852 - 456 páginas
...all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman, who could every hour employ With something...desert. Beggar'd 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... | |
| John Dryden - 1852 - 378 páginas
...rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman, who could ev'ry hour employ, With something new to wish, or to enjoy!...civil, That every man with him was god or devil. In squand'ring wealth was his peculiar art: Nothing went unrewarded but desert. Beggar' d by fools, whom... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1853 - 838 páginas
...thinking. Blest madman, who could every hour employ With something new to wish, or to enjoy ! Raising and praising were his usual themes, And both to show...peculiar art ; Nothing went unrewarded but desert. [* This last couplet is borrowed from some lines Tinder a [Hjrtrait of the riultun Mustapha I., before... | |
| Anthony Hamilton (Count), Charles II (King of England), Thomas Blount - 1853 - 568 páginas
...all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman, who could every hour employ With something...Railing and praising were his usual themes, And both, to shew his judgment, in extremes ; So over violent, or over civil, That every man with him was god or... | |
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