 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 536 pages
...withstood) Shall deluge all ; and Avarice, creeping on, •Spread like a low born mist, anil blot the Sunj Statesman and patriot ply alike the stocks, Peeress and butler share alike the box, 140 And judges jcib, anil bishops bite the town, And mighty dukes pack cards for half a crown. See... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...gen'ral flood, 1 3 5 " (So long by watchful ministers withstood,) " Shall deluge all ; and aY'rice creeping on, " Spread like a low-born mist, and blot...stocks, " Peeress and butler share alike the box, 140 " And judges job, and bishops bite the town, " And mighty dukes pack cards for half a crown. "... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...watchful ministers withstood,} Shall deluge all ; and Avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-lx>rn ikin sliare alike the box ; And judges job, and bishops bite the town, And mighty dukes pack cards for half... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 372 pages
...like a gen'ral flood 135 (So long by watchful Ministers withstood), Shall deluge all ; and Avarice creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot...the stocks, Peeress and Butler share alike the Box, 140 NOTES. Ver. 133. Much injur'd Blunt !] Sir JOHN BLUNT, originally a scrivener, was one of the first... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 368 pages
...inform us, whether the direful prophecy of this wizard be founded on truth or not ? Ver. 137.— — Av'rice creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the Sun ;] The similitude is extremely apposite, implying that this vice is of base and mean original; hatched... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 370 pages
...will inform us, whether the direful prophecy of this wizard be founded on truth or not ? Ver. 137. Av'rice creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the Sun;] The similitude is extremely apposite, implying that this vice is of base and mean original ; hatched... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 pages
...like a general flood, 135 (So long by watchful Ministers withstood,) Shall deluge all ; and avarice creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot...the stocks, Peeress and butler share alike the box, 140 And judges job, and bishops bite the town, And mighty dukes pack cards for half a crown. See Britain... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1824 - 430 pages
...like a general flood, 135 (So long by watchful Ministers withstood,) Shall deluge all ; and avarice creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot...the stocks, Peeress and butler share alike the box, 140 And judges job, and bishops bite the town, And mighty dukes pack cards for half a crown. See Britain... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all ; and avarice creeping on, Spread like a low-horn mist, and blot the sun ; Statesman and patriot ply...the stocks, Peeress and butler share alike the box, 140 And judges job, and bishops bite the town, And mighty dukes pack cards for half-a-crown. See Britain... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...ereeping on, Spread like a low-bom mist, and blot the sun ; Statesman and patriot ply alike the stoeks, leeted, shines : That plaee is earth, the seat of man ; that light His day, whieh else, as th' other paek eards for half a erown. See Ilritain sunk in luere's sordid eharms, And Franee reveng'd of Anne's... | |
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At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood,) Shall deluge all ; and avarice creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun... 
