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" Who sees pale Mammon pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor; This year a reservoir, to keep and spare : The next, a fountain, spouting through his heir, In lavish streams to quench a country's thirst, And men and dogs shall drink... "
The poets of Great Britain complete from Chaucer to Churchill - Page 36
by John Bell - 1807
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The Poetical Works of Alex. Pope: With a Sketch of the Author's Life

Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...lie, Wait but for wings, and in their season fly. 170 In lavish streams to quench a country's thirst, And men and dogs shall drink him till they burst. Old Cotta shamed his fortune and hss birth, Yet was not Cotta void of wit or worth : What though (the use of...
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A Select Collection of Old Plays: The antiquary; The goblins; The ordinary ...

Robert Dodsley - 1826 - 464 pages
...back The antient Spanish custom, wheie the women . . • m i- ' 0 some men, &c.] So Mr. Pope. ' Who sees pale Mammon pine amidst his store, ' Sees but...and spare ; ' The next, a fountain, spouting through big heir, ' In lavish streams to quench a country's thirst, , ; ' And men and dogs shall drink him...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope ...: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 pages
...Riches, like insects, when conccal'd they lie, Wait but for wings, and in their season fly, 170 Who y spouse, and let me kiss thy cheek. Thou shouldst be always thus, resign'd and meek I Of Job's epouting through his heir, In lavish streams to quench a country's thirst. And men and dogs shall drink...
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Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volume 2

Thomas Brown - 1826 - 522 pages
...they lie, Wait but for wings, and in their season fly. Who sees pale Mammon pine amid his store, r Sees but a backward steward for the poor, This year...keep and spare, The next a fountain, spouting through bis heir In lavish streams to quench a country's thirst, And men and dogs shall drink him t,ll they...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Prefaces

John Aikin - 1826 - 840 pages
...fly. Who sees pale Mammon pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor ; EPKT. i;: 6 throujii his heir, In lavish streams to quench a country^ thirst, And men and dogs shall drink him...
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The Poetical Works, Volume 2

Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 pages
...Riches like insects, when conceal'd they lie. Wait but for wings, and in their season fly. 170 1vhosees pale Mammon pine amidst his store. Sees but a backward...heir, In lavish streams to quench a country's thirst, And men and dogs shall drink him till they burst. Old Cotta shamed his fortune and his birth, Yet was...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: To which is Prefixed a Life ..., Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1828 - 222 pages
...wings, and in their season fly. Who sees pale Mammon pine amidst his store t Sees but a backward slewaid for the poor; This year a reservoir to keep and spare,...heir, In lavish streams to quench a country's thirst^ And men and dogs sha\\dm\V.\\VKV v^^vssNs^viXs 153 OP THE USE OP RICHES. ParJ I. '-I'hesense to value...
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The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of ..., Part 2, Volume 18

Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 436 pages
...speaks nsenedly, but he speaks with force ; Nor can a word be changed but for a worse. '' • . Who sees pale Mammon pine amidst his store, Sees but a...; The next, a fountain spouting through his heir. Id. Conceal your esteem and love in your own breast, and reserve your kind looks and language for private...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...Riches, like insects, when conceal'd they lie, Wait but for wings, and in their season fly. 170 Who ke a fat corpse upon a bed, That lies and stinks in...grace) On any part except her face ; All white and blac snouting through his heir, In lavish streams to quench a country's thirst, And men and dogs shall drink...
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The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings : with ..., Volume 1

William Hogarth, John Trusler, J. Hogarth, John Nichols - 1833 - 344 pages
...into one point of view what Mr. Pope so exquisitely describes in his Epistle to Lord Bathurst — 'Who sees pale Mammon pine amidst his store, Sees but a...; The next a fountain, spouting through his heir.' The introduction to this history is well delineated, and the principal figure marked with that easy,...
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