 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1801 - 474 էջ
...talent, and strange impropriety of conduct, have been finely described by Pope in his Moral Essays. * WHARTON, the scorn and wonder of our days. Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise; Bom with whate'er could win it from the wise, Women and fools must like him, or he... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1806 - 534 էջ
...eccentric peer, and his deplorable perversion of them, are thus drawn by the vivid pencil of Pope : " Wharton, the scorn and wonder of our days, Whose ruling passion was a lust of praise : Born with whate'er could win it from the wise, Women and fools must like him, or... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 էջ
...here. This clue once found uuravels all 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 with whate'er could win it from the wise. Women and fools must like him, or he... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 էջ
...here. This clue once found uuravels all the rest, The prospect clears, andWhartou stands confess 'd. 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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 496 էջ
...and was buried in St. Pancras church-yard. Pope has drawn his character in these masterly lines : " 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... | |
 | James Sargant Storer - 1817 - 456 էջ
...William. His vigour of talent and strange impropriety of conduct have been finely described by Pope— Wharton, the scorn and wonder of our days, Whose ruling passion was the love of praise : Boni with wliate'rr could win it from the wise, Women and fools must like him, or he dies. Though... | |
 | James Storer - 1818 - 226 էջ
...William. His vigour of talent and strange impropriety of conduct bave been finely described by Pupe — Wharton, the scorn and wonder of our days, Whose ruling passion was the love of praise : VOL. VII. H Born with wbate'er could win it from the wise, Women and fools must like him, or he dies.... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 էջ
...here. This clue once found, unravels all the rest, Tile prospect clears, and Wliarton stands confest. d an image of himself, a sovereign of the The listening crowd admire th lust of praise ; Born with whate'er could win it from the wise, Women and fools must like him, or he... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1854 - 580 էջ
...Macaulay, who is hastening, in his English history, to the time and events in which this hero nourished. " 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... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 402 էջ
...here. This clue once found, unravels all 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 with whate'er could win it from the wise, 'Women and fools must like him, or... | |
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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... 
