 | Francis Warre Cornish - 1900 - 604 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... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1901 - 654 pages
...turns of Whigs and Tories j 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 860 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 hath... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 864 pages
...turns of Whigs and Tories : \Vns cheerful to his dying day ; And friends would let him have his way. ' d to use was in these words : ' Lord God, deliver fools and mad ; And show'd by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much. That kingdom he hath... | |
 | Sir William Osler - 1904 - 82 pages
...simple objective statement of some of the existing conditions of thought. NOTES NOTES NOTE i, page 3. " 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." Verses on the Death of... | |
 | Alfred Ainger - 1905 - 436 pages
...his services to Ireland. And it ends with the lines best known, perhaps, and oftenest quoted of all: 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. This, you know, states... | |
 | 1905 - 898 pages
...satirist; but he commences this lecture with a thrust that rivals Dean Swift's, which he quotes: " 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." Miss Ingersoll, says... | |
 | 1905 - 1112 pages
...a satirist; but he commences this lecture with a thrust that rivals Dean Swift's, which he quotes : "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." Miss Ingersoll, says... | |
 | Mildred Lewis Rutherford - 1906 - 806 pages
...ne'er offended with a jest; But langhed to hear an idiot quote A verse from Horace learned by rote. 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.' Pointing once to a tree,... | |
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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. 
