 | Johnstone - English essays - 1840 - 386 pages
...And thin partitions do their bounds divide ; Else why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest ? Punish a body...not please, Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease ; * » » * In friendship false, implacable in hate, Resolved to ruin or to rule the State ; To compass... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1841 - 844 pages
...And thin partitions do their bounds divide ; Else why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest ? Punish a body...not please ; Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease t And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd two-legg'd thing a son ; Got while... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...divide ; * Klse why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest f m, that man would no more do this than innocents and...things of God, which being by grace discovered, are bom a shapeless lump, like anarchy. In friendship false, implacable in hate ; Resolv'd to ruin or to... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1844 - 846 pages
...Refuse his age the needful hours of rest ! i Punish a body which he could not please ; | Hani, nipt of life, yet prodigal of ease! And all to leave what...two-legg'd thing a son ; Got while his soul did huddled nations try. And born a shapeless lump, like anarchy. In friendship false, implacable in hate ; Resolved... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...disproportionate straining or excess of any one of them." Else why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest ? Punish a body...And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeathered two-legged thing, a son. In friendship false, implacable in hate ; Resolved to ruin or... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - Humor - 1846 - 282 pages
...thin partitions do their bounds divide ;* Else, why should he, with wealth and honor blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest ; Punish a body...life, yet prodigal of ease, And all to leave what with such toil he won, To that unfeather'd two-legg'd thing, a son ,J Got, while his soul did huddled notions... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 386 pages
...And thin partitions do their bounds divide? Else, why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest; Punish a body which...life, yet prodigal of ease, And all to leave what with such toil he won, To that •unfeather'd two-legg'd thing, a son:3 Got, while his soul did huddled... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...And thin partitions do their bouuds divide;* Else why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse ight to those, especially of soft and delicious temper, who will not so much as look upon truth herself, ea*et And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfcather'd two-legg'd thing, a son ; Got,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...divide ; * Else why should he, with wealth and honour blot, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest I pening the obstructions, sometimes helping the digestion, sometimes increasing a 1 And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd two-legg'd thing, a son ; Got, while... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 484 pages
...partitions do their bounds divide ; . Else, why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refute his afre the needful hours of rest ; • Punish a body which...that unfeather'd two-legg'd thing, a son ; Got, while hia soul did huddled notions try ; And born a shapeless lump, like anarchy."] " See Dryden's Works,... | |
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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 allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide; Else, why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the... 
