 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1828 - 222 pages
...Rome's great Didius was before. (So long by watchful ministers withstood,) Shall deluge all; and avarice creeping on, Spread, like a low-born mist, and blot...job, and bishops bite the town, And mighty dukes pack carda for half a crown : See Britain sunk in lucre's sordid charms, And France reveng'd of Anne's and... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 pages
...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...sun ; Statesman and patriot ply alike the stocks. ESSAYS. 83 Peeress and butler share alike the box, 140 And judges job, and bishops bite the town, And... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...Mrill deluge all ; and avarice creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun ; Kuteiinan n the spires. A thousand piles the dusky horrors gild, And shoot a shady 140 Aid judges job, and bishops bite the town, Aid mighty dukes pack cards for half-a-crown. See Britain... | |
 | Pablo Pebrer - Debts, Public - 1833 - 610 pages
...was infected with that irresistible passion, and as Pope has admirably described it, " Statesman nnd patriot ply alike the Stocks, Peeress and butler share alike the box, And judges job, nnd bishops bite the town, And mighty dukes pack cards for half-a-crown." • Com. Jour. Vol. IX. p.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 pages
...like a general flood, 185 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 poetry - 1836 - 332 pages
...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 ; Statesman and patriot ply alike the stocka, Peeress and butler share alike the box, 140 And judges job, and bishops bite the town, And... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...Corruption, like a general flood, (So long by watchful ministers withstood,) Shall deluge all; and Avarice, hus said. " ' Son, Ihou ihe box ; And judges job, and bishops bite the town. And mighty dukes pack cards for half a crown.... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...Corruption, like a general flood, (So long by watchful ministers withstood,) Shall deluge all ; and Avarice, hantasm call'st my son : I know thee not, nor ever...eyes, and dizzy swum In darkness, while thy head fl Ibr half a crown. See Britain sunk in Lucre's sordid charms, And I'r.iuir reveng'd of Anne's and Edward's... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 806 pages
...untill they made the same to fall from the tree. Sir Пояии North. Plutarch, fol. 457. Kietot. Statesman and patriot ply alike the stocks, Peeress and butler share alike the box, And judges_/'o4, and bishops bite the town, And mighty dukes pack cards for half a crown. Pope. Moral Eaayi,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1846 - 328 pages
...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 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... | |
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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... 
