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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. "
The Reliques of Father Prout, Late P.P. of Watergrasshill, in the County of ... - Page 199
by Francis Mahony - 1836
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Sketches of the Lives and Times of Eminent Irish Churchmen

John Walton Murray - 1874 - 208 pages
...owners, set not up for beauty ; True genuine dulness moved his pity, Unless it offered to be witty ! He gave the little wealth he had To build a house for fools and mad, To shew, by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much! " It was even so. With a...
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Engelske forfattere i udvalg. med biografiske indeldminger og oplysende ...

Jakob Olaus Løkke - 1875 - 556 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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Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson: With Copious Indexes ...

Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 pages
...we do speak about ? Or have we eaten of the insane root That takes the reason prisoner ? SHAKSPEARE. 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. SWIFT. INSTINCT. Beasts can...
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Chaucer to Burns

Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 840 pages
...often miss'd his aim, The world must own it to their shame, The praise is his, and theirs the blame. east ; Who plead for love, and look for recompence, M fools and mad ; To show, by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much. That kingdom he hath left...
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Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson

Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 pages
...we do speak about ? Or have we eaten of ihe insane root That takes the reason prisoner ? SHAKSPEARE. 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. SWIFT. INSTINCT. Beasts can...
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History of English Humour: With an Introduction Upon Ancient Humour, Volume 2

Alfred Guy L'Estrange - 1878 - 414 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 showed by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much, That kingdom he has left...
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History of English Humour: With an Introduction Upon Ancient Humour, Volume 2

Alfred Guy L'Estrange - 1878 - 370 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 showed by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much, That kingdom he has left...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 3

Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 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 shew, by one satiric touch, 1 Colonel Francis Chartres or Charteris, of infamous...
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The English Poets: Addison to Blake

Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 636 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.' ALEXANDER POPE. [ALEXANDER...
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Gems of national poetry. Compiled and ed. by mrs. Valentine

Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 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. And, since you dread no...
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