 | David A. Kent, D. R. Ewen - 1992 - 428 pages
...household virtue, most uncommon, Of constancy to an unhandsome woman. l9 XIII "God save the king!" It is a large economy In God to save the like; but...one am I Of those who think damnation better still: 100 I hardly know too if not quite alone am I In this small hope of bettering future ill By circumscribing,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1996 - 868 pages
...But where's the proctor who will ask his son? x 756 THE VISION OF JUDGMENT XIII 'God save the king!' It is a large economy In God to save the like; but...he will Be saving, all the better; for not one am I 10o Of those who think damnation better still: I hardly know too if not quite alone am I In this small... | |
 | Robert M. Ryan - 1997 - 324 pages
...finding out. Amazing grace, indeed, to save a wretch like George, but, as Byron observed, "if [God] will / Be saving, all the better; for not one am I / Of those who think damnation better still" (98-100). And to have denied salvation to the old king would have been playing by Southey's rules.... | |
 | W. H. Auden - 2004 - 604 pages
...Except that household virtue, most uncommon, Of constancy to a bad, ugly woman. 'God save the king !' It is a large economy In God to save the like; but...restriction, The eternity of hell's hot jurisdiction. I know this is unpopular ; I know 'Tis blasphemous; I know one may be damn'd For hoping no one else... | |
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God save the king!" It is a large economy In God to save the like: but if he will Be saving, all the better; for not one am I Of those who think damnation better still... 
