 | John Bell - English poetry - 1777 - 644 pages
...Else why should he, with wealth and honour bless'd, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest ? 166 Punish a body which he could not please ; Bankrupt...won, To that unfeather'd, two-legg'd thing, a son ; 170 Got while his soul did huddled notions try, And born a shapeless lump, like Anarchy. In friendship... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - English prose literature - 1800 - 601 pages
...partitions do their bounds divide : " Else, why should he, with wealth and honour blest, " Deprive his age the needful hours of rest ; " Punish a body...won, " To that unfeather'd two-legg'd thing, a son ; " Got while his soul did huddled notions try, *' And born a shapeless lump, like anarchy." This unfeather'd... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 614 pages
...partitions do (heir bounds divide : '• Else, why should he, with wealth and honour blest, " Deprive his age the needful hours of rest; " Punish a body...all, to leave what with his toil he won, " To that unfcathcr'd two-legg'd thing, a son ; " Got while his soul did huddled notions try, " And born a shapeless... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 622 pages
...funeral, he at the same * CHA.RACTERISTICKS, vol. ip 156. vol. iii. p. 189, n. Edinb. 12 mo. 1758. 1 " Great wits arc sure to madness near allied, " And...Else, why should he, with wealth and honour blest, " Deprive his age the needful hours of rest ; " Punish a body which he could not please, " Bankrupt... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 606 pages
...the same 9 CHARACTERISTICS, vol. ip 156. vol. hi. p. 189, n. Edinb. 1amo. 1758. 1 " Great wits are sure to madness near allied, " And thin partitions...Else, why should he, with wealth and honour blest, " Deprive his age the needful hours of rest ; " Punish a body which he could not please, " Bankrupt... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - English prose literature - 1800 - 608 pages
...the same 9 CHARACTERISTICS, vol. ip 156. vol. iii. p. 189, n. Edinb. i2mo. 1758. 1 " Great wits are sure to madness near allied, " And thin partitions...Else, why should he, with wealth and honour blest, " Deprive his age the needful hours of rest ; " Punish a body which he could not please, " Bankrupt... | |
 | English poetry - 1801 - 416 pages
...ally'd, And thin partitions do their bounds divide; Else why should he, with wealth and honour bless'd, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest ? Punish...won, To that unfeather'd, two-legg'd thing, a son ; I70 Got while his soul did huddled notions try, And born a shapeless lump, like Anarchy. In friendship... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 382 pages
...allied, And thin partitions do their hounds divide ; Else why should he, with wealth and honour hlcss'd, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest? Punish a...leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd, two legg'd thing, a son ; Got while his soul did huddled notions try, And bora a shapeless lump, like... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 482 pages
...the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands, to boast his wit Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do...And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeathered two-legged thing, a son; f Got, while his soul did huddled notions try ; And born a shapeless... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 476 pages
...storms ; but, for a calm unfit, \Would steer too nigh' the sands, to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do...And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeathered two-legged thing, a son ; "! Got, while his soul did huddled notions try ; And born a shapeless... | |
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And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high, He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near... 
