 | Thomas Craddock - 1873 - 424 pages
...Benighted wanderers, the forest o'er, Curse the saved candle, and unopening door ; While the gaunt mastiff, growling at the gate, Affrights the beggar whom he longs to eat. * Horace, too, gives us one of his neat cabinet pictures of the miser, in the second satire of his... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 pages
...Benighted wanderers the forest o'er, Curse the saved candle and unopening door; While the gaunt mastiff, growling at the gate, Affrights the beggar whom he longs to eat. POPE. When Hopkins dies, a thousand lights attend The wretch who living saved a candle's end ; Should'ring... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 840 pages
...wanderers, the forest o'er, Curs'd the sav'd candle, and unopening door; •While the gaunt mastiff, od he pass'd the days, Prayer all his business, all his pleasure Not so his son : he mark'd this oversight, And then mistook reverse of wrong for right ;Kor what to... | |
 | THOMAS ARNOLD - 1876 - 312 pages
...wanderers, the forest o'er, Curse the saved candle and unopening door ; 190 While the gaunt mastiff, growling at the gate, Affrights the beggar whom he longs to eat. Not so his son ; he mark'd this oversight, And then mistook reverse of wrong for right : (For what... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1877 - 524 pages
...all its mumping cant, from the inhospitable door of Cannibal Castle, — " Where the gaunt mastiff, growling at the gate, Affrights the beggar whom he...eat." I think we might have found, before the rude hand of insolent office was on our shoulder, and the staff of usurped authority brandished over our... | |
 | 1877 - 630 pages
...Benighted wanderers the forest o'er Curse the saved candle, and unopening door ; While the gaunt masting growling at the gate, Affrights the beggar whom he longs to eat.' If these lines are admirable for their force and distinctness, the following couplet is as remarkable... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1878 - 442 pages
...all it's mumping cant, from the inhospitable door of Cannibal Castle — 1 Where the gaunt mastiff, growling at the gate, Affrights the beggar whom he...eat.' I think we might have found, before the rude hand of insolent office was on our shoulder, and the staff of usurped authority brandished over our... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 pages
...Benighted wanderers the forest o'er, Curse the saved candle and unopening door; While the gaunt mastiff, growling at the gate, Affrights the beggar whom he longs to eat. POPE. When Hopkins dies, a thousand lights attend The wretch who living saved a candle's end; Should'ring... | |
 | Charles Peter Mason - 1879 - 108 pages
...Benighted wanderers the forest o'er Curse the saved candle and unopening door ; While the gaunt mastiff, growling at the gate, Affrights the beggar whom he longs to eat. 49. He that claims either for himself or for another the honours of perfection, will surely injure... | |
 | Charles Peter Mason - 1879 - 282 pages
...Benighted wanderers the forest o'er Curse the saved candle and unopening door ; While the gaunt mastiff, growling at the gate, Affrights the beggar whom he longs to eat. 49. He that claims cither for himself or for another the honours of perfection, will surely injure... | |
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And turn the' unwilling steeds another way; Benighted wanderers, the forest o'er, Curse the saved candle and unopening door; While the gaunt mastiff, growling at the gate, Affrights the beggar whom he longs to eat... 
