 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 410 sider
...died in thinking. Blest madman, who could every hour employ With something new to wish or to enjoy ! Railing and praising were his usual themes, And both,...with him was God or Devil. In squandering wealth was bis peculiar art ; Nothing went unrewarded but desert. Beggar'd by fools whom still he found too late,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 sider
...died in thinking. Blest madman ! who could ev'ry hour employ With something new to wish, or to enjoy. . Upon the roses it would feed, Until its lips ev'n seem'd to bleed ; over-violent, or over-civil, That cv'ry man with him was God or devil. In squandering wealth was his... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1848 - 334 sider
...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.... | |
 | 1860 - 436 sider
...which may have occurred to him in his rending, he reminds us of the lines : " Praising and blaming were his usual themes, And both, to show his judgment, in extremes, So over-violent, or over-civil, That every man with him was God or devil I" But when he addresses himself... | |
 | John Fisher Murray - 1849 - 388 sider
...and praising were his usual thcmct, And both, to show his jndgment in extremes. So over violent, so over civil, That every man, with him, was God or devil....peculiar art, Nothing went unrewarded but desert. BeggarM by fools, whom still he found too late, He had his jest, and they had his estate. He laugh'd... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 sider
...died in thinking. Blest madman! who could every hour employ With something new to wish, or to enjoy, Railing and praising were his usual 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 sider
...died in thinking. Blest madman! who could every hour employ With something new to wish, or to enjoy, Railing and praising were his usual 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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1852 - 378 sider
...died in thinking. Blest madman, who could ev'ry hour employ, With something new to wish, or to enjoy! Railing and praising were his usual themes; And both,...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 sider
...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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1854 - 324 sider
...died in thinking. Blest madman, who could every hour employ, With something new to wish, or to enjoy! Railing and praising were his usual themes; And both,...peculiar art ; Nothing went unrewarded but desert. Beggared by fools, whom still he found too late, He had his jest, and they had his estate. He laughed... | |
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Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman, who could every hour employ With something new to wish or to enjoy ! Railing and praising were his usual themes, And both to show his judgment,... 
