 | William Ayre, Edmund Curll - Poets, English - 1745 - 426 pages
...poflefs'd of Ten Thoufand a Year, And having daily deferv'd the Gibbet for what he did, Wasatlaft condemn'd to it for what he could not do. Oh Indignant Reader ! Think not his Life Ufelefs to Mankind ! Providence conniv'd at his execrable Defigns, To give to After-Ages a confpicupus... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 272 pages
...of TEN THOUsAND a Year, And having daily deferved the GIBBET for what he didf Was at laft condemn'd to it for what he could not do. Oh Indignant Reader ! Think not his Life ufelefs to Mankind PROVIDENCE conniv'd at his execrable Defigns, To give to After-ages A confpicuous... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1757 - 440 pages
...'4 primeval MEANNESS is'd of TEN THOUSAND a-year ; 0 daily deferved the GIBBET for what he did, laft condemned to it for what he could not do. Oh indignant reader ! Think not his life ufelefs to mankind ! PROVIDENCE conniv'df at his execrable defigns, To give to after ages A confpicuous... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1760 - 402 pages
...pofTefled of TEN THOUSAND a Year, And having daily deferved the GIBBET for what he didt Was at laft condemned to it for what he could not do. Oh indignant Reader ! Think not his Life ufelefs to Mankind ! PROVIDENCE connived at his execrable Defigns, To give to After-ages A confpicuous... | |
 | John Arbuthnot - 1770 - 276 pages
...pofleffed of Ten thoufand a Year : And having daily deferved the Gibbet for what he did, Was atlaft condemned to it for what he could not. do. Oh indignant Reader! Think not his Life ufelefs to Mankind, Providence connived at his execrable Defigns, To give to After-ages a confpicuous... | |
 | Letters to the editor - 1771 - 508 pages
...poflefled of Ten thoufand a year : And having daily deferved the gibbet for what he did, Was at laft condemned to it for what he could not do. Oh, indignant reader ! Think not his life ufelefs to mankind, Providence connived at his execrable defigns, To give to after ages a confpicuous... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 496 pages
...his time, Who could CHEAT without the mask of HONESTY; Retain his primeval MEANNESS when possessed of TEN THOUSAND a year; And, having daily deserved...at last condemned to it for what he could not do. O indigO indignant reader ! Think not his life useless to mankind ! PROVIDENCE connived at his execrable... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 498 pages
...his rime, Who could CHEAT without the mask of HONESTY ; Retain his primeval MEANNESS when possessed of TEN THOUSAND a year ; And, having daily deserved...at last condemned to it for what he could not do. O indignant reader! Think not his life useless to mankind ! PROVIDENCE connived at his execrable designs,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1803 - 434 pages
...his primeval MEANNESS when possessed of TEN THOUSAND a year ; And, having daily deserved the GI BBET for what he did, Was at last condemned to it for what he could not do. O indignant reader ! Think not his life useless to mankind ! PROVIDENCE connived at his execrable designs,... | |
 | Select collection - Epitaphs - 1806 - 262 pages
...could cheat without the mask of honesty. He retained his primaeval meanness . , . , . When possessed of ten thousand a year ; And having daily deserved...could not do. Oh, indignant reader ! Think not his lite useless to mankind ! Providence permitted his execrable designs, To give to after-ages A conspicuous... | |
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BRIBE-WORTHY service, He acquired, or more properly created, A MINISTERIAL ESTATE. He was the only person of his time Who could CHEAT without the mask of HONESTY, Retain his primeval MEANNESS When possessed of TEN THOUSAND a year, And having daily deserved... 
