 Tis all on me an usurpation. I have no title to aspire ; Yet, when you sink, I seem the higher; In Pope I cannot read a line, But with a sigh I wish it mine : When he can in one couplet fix More sense than I can do in six, It gives me such a jealous fit,...  The works of ... Jonathan Swift - Página 177de Jonathan Swift - 1752 - 80 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 páginas
...Unless the odds be on our side. Vain humankind ! fantastie raee ! Thy various follies who ean traee ? Self-love, ambition, envy, pride, Their empire in our hearts divide. Give others riehes, power, and station, 'Tis all to me an usurpation. I have no title to aspire; Yet, when you... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 páginas
...strongest friendship yields to pride, Unless the odds he ou our side. Vain hu man kind ! fantastic forlorn, Or crazed with care, or crossed in hopeless...hill, Along the heath and near hie favourite tree ' 1'is all on me: an wurpation. i have no title to aspire; Yet. when you sick. I seem the higher; ID... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1833 - 380 páginas
...The strongest friendship yields to pride, Unless the odds be on our side. Vain human kind ! fantastic race ! Thy various follies who can trace ? Self-love,...divide. Give others riches, power, and station, Tis all on me a usurpation. . I have no title to aspire ; Yet, when you sink, I seem the higher. In Pope I... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 438 páginas
...race! Thy various follies who can trace ? Self-love, ambition, envy, pride, Their empire in our heart divide. Give others riches, power, and station, 'Tis all to me an usurpation. I have no title to aspire ; Yet, when you sink, I seem the higher. In Pope I cannot read a line, But with a sigh I wish... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 362 páginas
...inroll'd : Her name on Earth shall not be told." ON THE DEATH OF DR. SWIFT. VAIN human-kind ! fantastic race ! Thy various follies who can trace ? Self-love, ambition, envy, pride, Their empire in our heart divide. Give others riches, power, and station, 'Tis all to me an usurpation. I have no title... | |
 | Lady Charlotte Campbell Bury, Lady of rank - 1838 - 218 páginas
...parting—" I declare that I think Tom Brown a capital fellow." CHAPTER VII. Vain .human kind! fantastic race! Thy various follies who can trace ? Self-love,...ambition, envy, pride, , Their empire in our hearts divide.—SWIFT. Lords, ladies, knights, and damsels, gents, Were heaped together with the vulgar sort,... | |
 | 1838 - 1012 páginas
...that I think Tom Brown a capital fellow." CHAPTER II. Vain human kind ! fantastic race ! Thy Yorious follies who can trace ? Self-love, ambition, envy, pride. Their empire in our hearts divide. SWIFT. Lords, ladies, knights, and damsels, gents, Were heaped together with the vulgar sort, And mingled... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 páginas
...The strongest friendship yields to pride, Unless the odds he on our side. Vain human-kind ! fantastic , etc. heart divide. Give others riches, power! and station, Tis all to me an usurpation. I have no title... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 830 páginas
...race ! Thy various follies who can trace ? Self-love, ambition, envy, pride, Their empire in our heart sed. aspire ; Yet, when you sink, I seem the higher. In Pope I cannot read a line, But with a sigh I wish... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 páginas
...The strongest friendship yields to pride, Unless the odds be on our side. Vain human-kind ! fantastic hidden strength. Unless the strength of Heaven, if you mean lhat? El. Br. I mean that too, but heart divide. Give others riches, power, and station, 'Tie all to mo an usurpation. I have no title... | |
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