 | William Robert Wilde - 1849 - 208 pages
...find his determination thus graphically described in the concluding stanza of that celebrated poem: " He gave the little wealth he had To build a house for fools and mad ; And showed by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much." In September, 1732,... | |
 | William Robert Wilde - 1849 - 208 pages
...find his determination thus graphically described in the concluding stanza of that celebrated poem: " He gave the little wealth he had To build a house for fools and mad ; And showed by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much." In September, 1732,... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1850 - 596 pages
...often miss'd his aim, The world must- own it to their shame, The praise is his, and theirs the blame. He gave the little wealth he had To build a house for fools and mad ; To show, by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much. That kingdom he hath left... | |
 | 1850 - 688 pages
...fo(a)c îlnfialt ju grunben. ©фоп П31 -'.;••& er in einem <$cbicr)tc auf feinen eigenen ïob: He gave the little wealth he had To build a house for fools and mad i And ihew'd by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much. (Do* SBenige was cr Batte... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 pages
...often missed his aim, The world must own it to their shame, The praise is his, and theirs the blame. He gave the little wealth he had To build a house for fools and mad; To show, by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much. That kingdom he hath left... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 602 pages
...often missed hii aim, The world must own it to their shame, The praise is his, and theirs the blame. He gave the little wealth he had To build a house for fools and mad; To show, by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much. That kingdom he hath left... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pages
...often miss'd his aim, The world must own it to their shame, The praise is his, and theirs the blame. He gave the little wealth he had To build a house for fools and mad ; To show, by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much. That kingdom he hath left... | |
 | Matthew Prior - 1853 - 220 pages
...turns of Whigs and Tories : Was cheerful to his dying day; And friends would let him have his way. " He gave the little wealth he had To build a house for fools and mad ; And show'd, by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much. That kingdom he had... | |
 | 1856 - 586 pages
...levity that appears to have been put on, to conceal the keenness of his feelings on tha subject : " He gave the little wealth he had To build a house for fools or mad, And showed, by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much." If we had space, we might... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1857 - 394 pages
...often missed his aim, The world must own it to their shame, The praise is his, and theirs the blame. He gave the little wealth he had To build a house for fools and mad; To show, by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much. That kingdom he hath left... | |
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He gave the little wealth he had, To build a house for fools and mad: And showed by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much: That kingdom he hath left his debtor, I wish it soon may have a better. 
