 Grown all to all, from no one vice exempt; And most contemptible to shun contempt; His passion still, to covet general praise, His life, to forfeit it a thousand ways ; A constant bounty which no friend has made; An angel tongue, which no man can persuade!...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - 第 210 頁1854完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | 1925 - 366 頁
...drinks and w ; Enough if all around him but admire, — • And now the punk applaud and now the friar. Thus with each gift of nature and of art, And wanting...contemptible to shun contempt, His passion still to covet general praise; His life to forfeit it a thousand ways; A constant bounty, which no friend has made;... | |
 | Edwin Beresford Chancellor - 1925 - 276 頁
...master of the joke. Shall parts so various aim at nothing new ? He'll shine a Tully and a Wilmot too. Thus with each gift of nature and of art. And wanting...contemptible, to shun contempt ; His passion still, to covet general praise, His life to forfeit it a thousand ways ; A constant bounty which no friend has made... | |
 | John Lomas - 1925 - 364 頁
...against us at Gibraltar in 1727. He was the Wharton whom Pope described as being endowed 1 With every gift of Nature and of Art,. And wanting nothing but an honest heart ; His passion still to covet general praise, His life to forfeit it a thousand ways ' — words which... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1926 - 306 頁
...and whores ; Enough if all around him but admire, 190 And now the Punk applaud, and now the Friar. Thus with each gift of nature and of art, And wanting...vice exempt, And most contemptible, to shun contempt ; 195 A Fool, with more of Wit than half mankind, *» Too rash for Thought, for Action too refin'd... | |
 | Lewis Saul Benjamin - 1927 - 358 頁
...drinks and whores; Enough, if all around him but admire, And now the punk applaud, and now the friar. Thus with each gift of nature and of art, And wanting...contemptible, to shun contempt: His passion still to covet general praise, His life, to forfeit it a thousand ways; A constant bounty which no friend has made;... | |
 | Sir John Collings Squire - 1921 - 730 頁
...Wharton : Wharton, the scorn and wonder of our days, Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise : Thus with each gift of nature and of art, And wanting...contemptible to shun contempt ; His passion still, to covet general praise ; His life, to forfeit it a thousand ways. Ask you why Wharton broke through ev'ry rule... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 頁
...drinks and whores; Enough if all around him but admire, 190 And now the Punk applaud, and now the Fryer. Thus with each gift of nature and of art, And wanting...vice exempt, And most contemptible, to shun contempt; 195 His Passion still, to covet gen'ral praise, His Life, to forfeit it a thousand ways; A constant... | |
 | Pat Rogers - 2007
...and most powerful portrait in that investigation of the "characters of men," the Epistle to Cobham, "Grown all to all, from no one vice exempt, | And most contemptible, to shun contempt" ( 194-5 ).9 The line which concludes this passage from Pope's Ep, ii, "And win my way by yielding to... | |
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