 Consistent in our follies and our sins, Here honest Nature ends as she begins. Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last ; As weak, as earnest ; and as gravely out, As sober Lanesborow dancing in the gout.  De Vere; Or, The Man of Independence - Seite 63von Robert Plumer Ward - 1831Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Alexander Pope - 1926 - 312 Seiten
...225 Consistent in our follies and our sins, Here honest Nature ends as she begins. Old Politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last ; As weak, as earnest; and as gravely out, 230 As sober Lanesb'rough dancing in the gout. Shov'd from... | |
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