 | Horace Walpole - English literature - 1759 - 272 pages
...without the royal want of feeling, the Duke's want of principles, or the Earl's want of thoughtThe latter faid with aftonifhment, " That he " did not...the failings of humanity, but he had the tendernefs of it too, which made every body excufe whom every body loved, for even the afperity of his verfes... | |
 | Horace Walpole - English literature - 1759 - 270 pages
...the Duke's want of principles, or the Earl's want of thought. The latter faid with aftoniftiment, " That he " did not know how it was, but Lord Dorfet...the failings of humanity, but he had the tendernefs of it too, which made every body excufe whom every body loved, for even the afperity of his verfes... | |
 | Matthew Prior - 1779 - 480 pages
...Charles the fecond, and in " the gloomy one of King William : he had as much wit " as his fufl mafter, or his cotemporaries, Buckingham and " Rochefter,...the failings of humanity, but he had the tendernefs " of it too, which made every body excufe whcm every " body loved, for even the afperity of his verfes... | |
 | Matthew Prior - 1779 - 478 pages
...Duke's " want of principles, or the Earl's want of thought. The " latter faid with aftonilhment, ' That he did not know " how it was, but Lord Dorfet...the failings of humanity, but he had the tendernefs " of it too, which made every body excufe whom every " body loved, for even the afperity of his verfes... | |
 | Horace Walpole - English literature - 1792 - 544 pages
...thought. The latter faid with adonifliment, " That he " did not know how it was, but Lord Dor" fet might do any thing, and yet was never " to blame."...the failings of humanity, but he had the tendernefs of it too, which made every body excufe whom every body loved, for even the afperity of his verfes... | |
 | 1793 - 806 pages
...That he did not know how it was, but LordDorfet might do any thing, ar.d yet w« ктto blame." It wu not that he was free from the failings of humanity, but he had the tenikrrt" of it too, which made every body cxcufe whom every body loved ; for even the afpcritj oí... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 842 pages
...duke's want of principles, or the earl's want of thought. The latter faid with jll< • • ment, " That he did not know how it was, but Lord Dorfet might do any thing, and yet was «f ef to blame." It was not that he was free from the failings of humanity, but he had the ttnderaeii... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1797 - 428 pages
...the Duke's want of principles, or the Earl's want of thought. The latter faid, with aftoiiifhment, " That he did not know how it was, but Lord Dorfet might...free from the failings of humanity, but he had the tendernefsof it too, which made every bodyexcufe whom evcry body loved ; for even the afperity of his... | |
 | William Jones - Bishops - 1799 - 488 pages
...replied — " If an Englifhman, by choice; if a Scotchman, by neceffity." Bb4 18. Ro. 1 8. Rochefter faid, with aftonifhment, "That " he did not know how...might do any thing, and yet was never to blame.'* Every body excufed whom every body loved for the tendernefs of his nature. — Royal and Noble Authors,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 480 pages
...and Rochefter ; without the royal want of feeling^ the Duke's want of principles, or the Earl's waut of thought. The latter faid, with aftonifhment, "...the failings of humanity, but he had the tendernefs of it too, which made every body excufe whom every body loved ; for even the afperity of bis verfes... | |
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It was not that he was free from the failings of humanity, but he had the tenderness of it too, which made every body excuse whom every body loved ; for even the asperity of his verses seems to have been forgiven to ' The best-good man, with the worst-natured... 
