 | Sarah Warner Brooks - 1890 - 518 pages
...thousand pounds, he left chiefly to found a lunatic asylum in Dublin ; to use his own words, — " He gave the little wealth he had, To build a house for fools and mad ; And showed by one satiric touch, No nation needed it so much." This description in... | |
 | A. L. Stronach - 1891 - 290 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... | |
 | Gerald Patrick Moriarty - 1893 - 388 pages
...distinctive traits — his respect for simplicity. He concludes by a reference to his bequest : ^ " He gave the little wealth he had To build a house for fools and mad ; And shovv'd by one satiric touch -~ No nation wanted it so much." CHAPTER XII. CONCLUSION.... | |
 | Alfred Ainger - 1895 - 654 pages
...good many more might have had something to say upon that head. The last phrase is significant, — He gave the little wealth he had To build a house for fools and mad ; And showed by one satiric touch No nation needed it so much, That kingdom he hath left... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1895 - 656 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... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1896 - 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... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 520 pages
...idiots and lunatics. Years before he had written a sort of epitaph upon himself, in which he says: " 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." It is succinctly given... | |
 | 1895 - 748 pages
...Irishmen, and this is how he refers to his own charity and to the people whom he would benefit : " 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." 1806.] [May, detail... | |
 | 1902 - 584 pages
...insane as early as 1731 when he wrote the verses on his own death and described his determination thus, He gave the little wealth he had To build a house for fools and mad; And shewed by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much. This object he had afterward... | |
 | R. McWilliam - 1900 - 834 pages
...avarice, and pride ; He gave it all — but first he died. And he closes the poem with the lines — 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. The last few years of his... | |
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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. 
