 | John Seely Hart - 1857 - 394 Seiten
...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, or over civil, That every man with him was god or devil. 19* In squandering wealth was his peculiar art; Nothing went unrewarded but desert: Beggared by fools,... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1858 - 274 Seiten
...sundered filaments, and seek to re-unite them in an everlasting bond. LETTER III. . MANNERS AND DRESS. 80 over violent, or over civil, That every man with him was God or devlL Dr.* nin. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not expressed in fancy ; rich, not gaudy... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 Seiten
...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, or over civil, That every man with him wot God or Devil. In squandering wealth was his peculiar art ; JVothing went unrewarded but desert.... | |
 | John Dryden - 1859 - 480 Seiten
...something new to wish, or to enjoy ! Railing and praising were his usual themes ; And hoth, to show his judgment, in extremes : So over violent, or over civil, That every man with him «•:•-• God or Devil. In squandering wealth was his peculiar art : Nothing went unrewarded hut... | |
 | Goronwy Owen - 1860 - 572 Seiten
...ai holl fympwyon eithafol i'w weled yng nghàn dd'jcban Dryden ar Dduc Buckingham, yr hwii oedd— "So over violent or over civil That every man with him was god or devil." Cynneddf beirniadaeth gan hyny yw olrhain aftan ragoríaethau ei ¡rwrthddrych, can gystled a'r diflygion... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 Seiten
...thousand freaks that died in thinking. Railing and praising 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. In squandering wealth was his peculiar art ; Nothing went unrewarded but desert. Beggar'd by_ fools, whom... | |
 | 1861 - 746 Seiten
...shallow celebrity of his day, — " Praising and railing were his usual themes, And both, to shew bis judgment, in extremes : So over violent, or over civil, That every man with him was God or devil." We saw that he had a very convenient " rule of thumb" by which he apportioned praise or blame, and... | |
 | 1861 - 804 Seiten
...shallow celebrity of his day, — 11 Praising and railing were his usual themes, And both, to shew his judgment, in extremes : So over violent, or over civil, That every man with him wan God or devil." We saw that he had a very convenient " rule of thumb" by which he apportioned praise... | |
 | 1861 - 748 Seiten
...— " Praising and railing wore his usual themes, And both, to shew his judgment, in extremes : 80 over violent, or over civil. That every man with him was God or devil." We saw that he had a very convenient " rule of thumb" by which he apportioned praise or blame, and... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 Seiten
...Absalom and Ahithophel, Part I. Line 545. Railing and praising were his usual themes ; And both, to shew his judgment, in extremes : So over violent, or over civil, That every man with him was god or devil. IBID. — Line 555. EQUAL.— Young Celadon And his Amelia were a matchless pair : With equal virtue... | |
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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, in extremes : So over violent or over civil... 
