 Not sunk by sloth, nor rais'd by servitude ; To balance fortune by a just expense, Join with economy, magnificence ; With splendour, charity ; with plenty, health ; Oh teach us, Bathurst ! yet unspoil'd by wealth ! That secret rare, between th' extremes...  The French Anas ... - Page 127by Jacques D. Du Perron - 1805Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1754 - 238 pages
...vain at Court the Bankrupt pleads his caufe, His thanklefs Country leaves him to her Laws. The Senfe to value Riches, with the Art T' enjoy them, and the Virtue to impart, 220 Not meanly, nor ambitioufly purfu'd, Not funk by floth, nor rais'd by fervitude ; To balance Fortune... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1760 - 402 pages
...vain at Court the Bankrupt pleads his caufe, His thanklefs Country leaves him to her Laws. The Senfe to value Riches, with the Art T' enjoy them, and the Virtue to impart, 220 VARIATIONS. After Ver. 218 in the MS. Where one lean herring furnifh'd Cotta's board, And nettles... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1767 - 294 pages
...vain at Court the Bankrupt pleads his caufe, His thanklefs Country leaves him to her laws. The Senfe to value Riches, with the Art T'' enjoy them, and the Virtue to impart, Not meanly, nor ambitioufly purfu'd, Not funk by floth, not rais'd by fervitude ; To balance Fortune by a juft expence,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1777 - 262 pages
...vain at Court the Bankrupt pleads his caufe, His thanklefs Country leaves him to her Laws. . The Senfe to value Riches, with the Art T' enjoy them, and the Virtue to impart, Not meanly, nor ambitioufly purfu'd, Not funk by floth, not rais'd by fervitude ; To balance fortune by a jufl expence,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1778 - 410 pages
...vain at Court the bankrupt pleads his caufe, His thanklefs country leaves him to her laws. The fenfe to value riches, with the art T' enjoy them, and the virtue to impart, 220 VOL. L. U u : • Not Not meanly, nor ambitioufly purfu'd, Not funk by floth, not rais'd by fervitude;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 1164 pages
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 | 1782 - 518 pages
...vain at court the bankrupt pleads his caufe, His thanklcfs country leaves him to her laws. The fenfe to value riches, with the art T' enjoy them, and the virtue to impart, Not meanly, nor ambitioufly purfu'd, Not funk by floth, nor rais'd by fervitude; To balance fortune by a juft expence,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1787 - 396 pages
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 | English poets - 1790 - 398 pages
...vain at Court the Bankrupt pleads his caufe, His thanklefs Country leaves him to her Laws. The Senfe to value Riches, with the Art T' enjoy them, and the Virtue to impart, 229 Not meanly, nor ambitioufly purfued, Not funk by floth, not rais'd by fervitude; To balance Fortune... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 966 pages
...at court the bankrupt pleads his caufe ; His thanklcfs country leaves him to her lasvs *. The fenfc ivington ambitioufty puifucd, Not funk by (loth, nor rais d by fcrvitude; To balance fortune by a juft expecce,... | |
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