 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1834 - 52 pages
...abounding with able and experienced men ? Pope has said of that wretched miser, Sir John Cutler, — " Cutler saw tenants break and houses fall For very want: — he could not build a wall." Newcastle's love of power resembled Cutler's love of money. It was an avarice which thwarted itself,... | |
 | 1834 - 596 pages
...assembly, abounding with able and experienced men ? Pope has said of that wretched miser Sir John Cutler, ' Cutler saw tenants break and houses fall For very want : — he could not build a wall.' Newcastle's love of power resembled Cutler's love of money. It was an avarice which thwarted itself,... | |
 | John Martin - Private presses - 1834 - 596 pages
...use of the poor. Upon these facts,' Mr. Heath adds, ' Surely these are not the acts of a man who, • saw tenants break, and houses fall; For very want, he could not build a wall:" one part of the charge of meanness, so forcibly put by the satirist— " His only daughter in a stranger's... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 pages
...reason, which of these 1s worse ; Want with a full, or with an empty purse ? 3-2 Thy life, more wretched, Cutler, was confess'd ; Arise, and tell me, was thy...a wall : His only daughter in a stranger's power, 325 For very want ; he could not pay a dower : A few gray hairs his reverend temples crown'd ; 'Twas... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 332 pages
...reason, which of these is worse, Want with a full or with an empty purse? 320 Thy life more wretched, Cutler! was confess'd : Arise, and tell me, was thy...stranger's power, For very want, he could not pay a dower ; A few gray hairs his reverend temples crown'd ; 'Tvvas very want that sold them for two pound.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 502 pages
...thy death more hleas'd > Cutler saw tenants hreak and houses fall ; For very want he could not huild ion a dower ; A few gray hairs his reverend temples crown'd ; 'Twas very want that sold them for two pound.... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...which of these are worse, Want with a full, or with an empty purse? Thy life more wretched, Culler, was confess'd: Arise, and tell me, was thy death more...bless'd ? Cutler saw tenants break, and houses fall, For every want he could not build a wall. His only daughter in a stranger's power. For very want ; ho could... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...Arise, and tell me, wai thy deaih more biess'd ? Cutler saw tenants break, and houses fall, For every I I H I I I%D!I a dower. A few grey hairs his reverend temples crown'd, Twas very wont that sold them for two pound.... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...Reason, which of these are worse. Want with a full, or with an empty purse? Thy life more wretched, Provok'd, the Juggler cried, " 'Tis done ; In every want he could not build a wall. His only daughter in a stranger's power, For very want ; he could... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1843 - 520 pages
...assembly, abounding with able and experienced men? Pope has said of that wretched miser Sir John Cutler, " Cutler saw tenants break and houses fall For very want: he could not build a wall." Newcastle's love of power resembled Cutler's love of money. It was an avarice which thwarted itself,... | |
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Cutler saw tenants break, and houses fall, For very want; he could not build a wall. 
