 | John Jones (of Harewood.) - 1859 - 344 pages
...will shew. Thy life more wretched Cutler was confessed Arise and tell me was thy death more blessed? Cutler saw tenants break and houses fall For very...wall. His only daughter in a stranger's power For veiy want, he could not pay a dower. A few grey hairs his reverend temples crowned, T'was very want... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 542 pages
...? Thy life more wretched, Cutler, was confess'd, Arise, and tell me, was thy death more bless' d ? Cutler saw tenants break, and houses fall, For very...stranger's power, For very want ; he could not pay a dower. A few gray hairs his reverend temples crown'd, 'Twas very want that sold them for two pound.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1897 - 950 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,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1860 - 1008 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,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 632 pages
...an empty purse ? 331 Tl'.y life more wreichcd, Cutler! was ronfess'd ; Irise, and cell me, was ihy death more bless'd ? Cutler saw tenants break and houses fall ; For very waul he rould not build a wall. His only daughter in a stranger's power, For very want, he could not... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1861 - 752 pages
...abounding with able and experienced men? Pope has said of that wretched miser, Sir John Cutler — " thirty years which preceded the appearance of Johnson's Lives, that the diction an Newcastle's love of power resembled Cutler's love of money. It was an avarice which thwarted itself... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1862 - 568 pages
...passed into the hands of Sir John Cutler, whom Pope has satirised in his Moral Essays (Ep. iii.) — " Cutler saw tenants break and houses fall, For very...a stranger's power, For very want he could not pay a dower," &c. This, at I have shown in my history of this neighbourhood, is a most unjust and unfounded... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1862 - 608 pages
...in his Moral Essays (Ep. iii.) — •• Caller saw tenants break and houses fall, For very want be could not build a wall ; His only daughter in a stranger's power, For very want be could not pay a dower," &c. This, as I have shown in my history of this neighbourhood, is a most... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 334 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...stranger's power, For very want ; he could not pay a dower: A few gray hairs his reverend temples crown'd ; Twas very want that sold them for two pound.... | |
 | 1866 - 328 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...stranger's power, For very want ; he could not pay a dower: A few gray hairs his reverend temples crown'd ; 'Twas very want that sold them for two pound.... | |
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Cutler saw tenants break, and houses fall, For very want; he could not build a wall. 
