 Are what ten thousand envy and adore : All, all look up with reverential awe, At crimes that 'scape or triumph o'er the law; While truth, worth, wisdom, daily they decry: Nothing is sacred now but villainy.  The Works of the British Poets - Page 151by Robert Anderson - 1795 - 1157 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Cobbett - 1809 - 540 pages
...sill, ambition is no more ! See, all our nobles begging to be slaves ! See, all our fools aspiring to be knaves! The wit of cheats, the courage of a whore, Are what ten thousand envy and adore .: All, all look up, with reverential awe, At crimes that 'scitpe, or triumph... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...u no more ! sore, BOOK IT. See all our nobles begging to be slaves ! Sec all our fiiols aspiring 10 f Windsor's heights th' expanse below Of grove, of lawn, of mead su thousand envy and adore : • All, all look up, with reverential awe, At crimes that 'scape or triumph... | |
 | 1809 - 402 pages
...av'rice all, ambition, is no more! See all our nobles begging to be slaves! See all our fools aspiring to be knaves ! The wit of cheats, the courage of a whore, Arc what ten thousand envy and adore : All, all look up, with reverential awe, At crimes, that 'scape... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 pages
...avarice all, ambition is no more ! See, all our nobles begging to be slaves ! See, all our fools aspiring to be knaves ! The wit of cheats, the courage of a whore, Are what ten thousand envy and adore : All, all look up, with reverential awe, At crimes that 'scape, or triumph... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 pages
...avarice all, ambition is no more ! See, all our nobles begging to be slaves I See, all our fools aspiring to be knaves ! The wit of cheats, the courage of a whore, Are what ti-n thousand envy and adore : All, all look up, with reverential awe, At crimes that 'scape, or triumph... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...av'rice all, ambition is no more ! See, all our nobles begging to be slaves ; See all our fools aspiring to be knaves ! The wit of cheats, the courage of a whore, 165 Are what ten thousand envy and adore : All, all look up, with reverential awe, At crimes that 'scape,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 230 pages
...av'rice all, ambition is no more ! See all our nobles begging to be slaves ! See all our fools aspiring to be knaves ! The wit of cheats, the courage of a whore, 165 Are what ten thousand envy and adore : All, all look up, with reverential awe, At crimes that 'scape... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 354 pages
...our fools aspiring to be knaves! 'Hie wit of cheats, the courage of a whore, Are what ten thousand envy and adore : All, all look up with reverential awe, At crimes that 'scape or triumph o'er the law; While truth, worth, wisdom, daily they decry : Nothing is sacred now... | |
 | 1822 - 290 pages
...avarice all, ambition is no more! See all our nobles begging to be slaves ! See all our fools aspiring to be knaves! The wit of cheats, the courage of a whore, Are what ten thousand envy and adore: All, all look up, with reverential awe, At crimes that scape, or triumph o'er... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 294 pages
...avarice all, ambition is no more! See all our nobles begging to be slaves ! See all our fools aspiring to be knaves! The wit of cheats, the courage of a whore, Are what ten thousand envy and adore: All, all look up, with reverential awe, At crimes that scape, or triumph o'er... | |
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