 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
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 636 páginas
...fools ! — Go, go, you're bit.' FROM 'VERSES ON THE DEATH OF DR. SWIFT.' 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. JONA THAN SWIFT. r, i I have no title to aspire ; Yet, when you sink, I seem the... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 626 páginas
...fools ! — Go, go, you're bit.' FROM 'VERSES ON THE DEATH OF DR. SWIFT.' Vain human kind ! fantastic race ! Thy various follies who can trace? Self-love,...' Give others riches, power, and station, 'Tis all on me a usurpation. r JONATHAN SWIFT. 51 I have no title to aspire ; Yet, when you sink, I seem the... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1881 - 368 páginas
...strongest friendship yields to pride, Unless the odds be on our side. Vain human-kind ! fantastic race ! C Thy various follies who can trace? Self-love, ambition,...; Give others riches, power, and station, Tis all on me an usurpation. I have no title to aspire; Yet, when you sink, I seem the higher. In Pope I cannot... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1881 - 638 páginas
...— Go, go, you're bit.' FROM 'VERSES ON THE DEATH OF DR. SWIFT.' Vain human kind ! fantastic race l Thy various follies who can trace? Self-love, ambition,...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 cannot... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1881 - 1000 páginas
...race! Thy various follies who can trace f Self-love, ambition, envy, pride, Their empire in our heart Brothers aspire, Yet, when you sink, I seem the higher. In Pope I cannot read a line, But with a sigh I wish... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1881 - 738 páginas
...vain ; Awhile he erawls upon the earth, Then sinks to earth again. Pope. Vain human-kind ! fantastic race ! Thy various follies who can trace ? Self-love,...ambition, envy, pride, Their empire in our hearts divide. Swift. Fond man ! the vision of a moment made ! Dream of a dream ! and shadow of a shade ! Young,Par.onJob.... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 632 páginas
...DEATH OF DR. SWIFT.' Vain human kind ! fantastic race ! Thy various follies who can trace ? Sell-love, ambition, envy, pride, Their empire in our hearts...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 cannot... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1881 - 842 páginas
...side. Vsin tiuiuui) kind ! fantastic race ! Thy various follies who can trace ? 8«fi-love, ambit JOB, envy, pride, Their empire in our hearts divide. Give others riches, power, and station, Tis all on me an usurpation. I hare no title to aspire ; Yet, when yon sink. I seem the higher ; In Pope I... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1882 - 1002 páginas
...The strongest friendship yields to pride, Unless tho odds bo on onr side. Vain human-kind! fantastic thou to Him Who drowued a world, and heaped the waters far Above its loftiest mountains f onr heart divide. Give others riches, power, and station, Tie all to me an usurpation ! I have no title... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 518 páginas
...friendship yields to pride, Unless the odds be on our side. Vain human kind ! fantastic race ! canrTraee?" Self-love, ambition, envy, pride, Their empire in...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 cannot... | |
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