 The pension'd beggar, or the titled poor. These are the thriving breed, the tiny great ! Slaves ! wretched slaves ! the journeymen of state ! Philosophers ! who calmly bear disgrace, Patriots who sell their country for a place ! Shall I for these...  Miscellanies in Prose and Verse - Seite 3von Mary Jones - 1750 - 405 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | T AGERTON - 1794 - 390 Seiten
...mighty matter fhort, t I've neither friend, nor intereft at court. Quite from St. James's to thy flairs, Whitehall, •I hardly know a creature, great or fmall,...'em all. I have no bus'nefs there. Let thofe attend 4; The courtly levee, or the courtly friend, Who more than fate allows them dare to fpend. * Honourable... | |
 | Sir John Collings Squire - 1921 - 232 Seiten
...creature, great or small, Except one maid of honour, worth them all. I have no business there — Let those attend The courtly levee, or the courtly friend, Who more than fate allows them dare to spend. Or those whose avarice, with much, craves more, The pension'd beggar, or the titled poor. These... | |
 | Roger Lonsdale, Roger H. Lonsdale - 1990 - 612 Seiten
...nice] fastidious Except one Maid of Honour*, worth them all. I have no business there — Let those attend The courtly levee, or the courtly friend, Who more than fate allows them dare to spend; Or those whose avarice, with much, craves more, The pensioned beggar, or the titled poor. These... | |
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