 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...which of these is worse, Want with a full or with an empty purse ? Thy life more wretched, Cutler I was confess'd ; Arise, and tell me, was thy death more bless'd ? Cutler saw tenants break aud houses fall ; For very want he could not build a wall. His only daughter in a stranger's pow'r... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1808 - 702 pages
...reason, which of these is worse, Want with a full, or with an empty purse ? Thy life more wretched, Cutler, was confess'd, Arise, and tell me, was thy death more bless'd ? Cutler saw tenants breajt, and houses fall ; For very want he could not build a wall. His only danghter in a stranger's... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...me, reason, which of these is worse, Want with a full or with an empty purse? Thy life more wretched, Cutler ! was confess'd ; Arise, and tell me, was thy...For very want he could not build a wall. His only danghter in a stranger's power; For very want he could not pay a dower. A few gray hairs his reverend... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...pnrsgf Thv life more wretched, Cutler, was confes»'d ; Anse, anil tell me, was thy death more bkss'd? reflection plead too late, My erring senses teach, Amidst the flaU'ring pow'r. For very want ; he could not pay a dow'r. A few grey hairs his rev'rend temples crown'd, "1'was... | |
 | Ely Hargrove - Harrogate (England) - 1809 - 454 pages
...resided at Gawthorpehall, having reduced the ancient castle of Harewood to ruin, for sake of the timber. Cutler saw tenants break, and houses fall ; For very want, he could not build a wall. Pope. on her death, (1696) accordingly inherited it; and, of the heirs of this gentleman, it was purchased... | |
 | Ely Hargrove - Harrogate (England) - 1809 - 448 pages
...resided at Gawthorpehall, having reduced the ancient castle of Harewood to ruin, for sake of the timber. Cutler saw tenants break, and houses fall; For very want, he could not build a wall. Pope. He left his estate to his only daughter, Elizabeth, ; countess of Radnor ; with remainder, in... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 536 pages
...329 Thy life more wretched, Cutler, was confess'd, Arise, and tell me, was thy death more hless'd ? Cutler saw tenants break, and houses fall, For very...stranger's power, For very want ; he could not pay a dower. A fi-w grey hairs his reverend temples crownM, 'Twas very want that sold them for two pound.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 pages
...32O Thy life more wretched, Cutler, was confess'd, Arise, and tell me, was thy death more blcss'di Cutler saw tenants break, and houses fall, For very want he could not build a wall. Flis only daughter in a stranger's power, For very want ; he conld not' pay a dower. A few grey hairs... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...that during the coml<at she held the Duke's horses in the habit of a page. Thy life more wretched, Cutler, was confess'd, Arise, and tell me, was thy...not build a wall. His only daughter in a stranger's pow'r, 325 For very want ; he could not pay a dow'r. A few grey hairs his rev'rend temples crown'd,... | |
 | John Britton, John Hodgson - Architecture - 1812 - 1036 pages
...purchased- by Sir John Cutler, of penurious memory, whose character is thus delineated by Pope, " Cutler uw tenants break and houses fall, " For very want he could not build a wall." He resided at Gawthorpe Hall, and is said to have reduced the ancient castle of Harewood to ruin for... | |
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Cutler saw tenants break, and houses fall, For very want; he could not build a wall. 
