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" Who sees pale Mammon pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor; This year a reservoir, to keep and spare : The next, a fountain, spouting through his heir, In lavish streams to quench a country's thirst, And men and dogs shall drink... "
The poets of Great Britain complete from Chaucer to Churchill - Page 36
by John Bell - 1807
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A Memoir of Hawarden Parish, Flintshire, Containing Short Introductory ...

Richard Willett - 1822 - 206 pages
...family name r Child, was changed to Tilney by HISTORY OF HAWARDEN". Act of Parliament, anno 1735 : " Who sees pale Mammon pine amidst his store, Sees but a...reservoir, to keep and spare, The next a fountain spouting thro' his Heir." Sir William Glynne, the Serjeant's son and heir by his first wife, Frances, the daughter...
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Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volume 3

Thomas Brown - 1822 - 594 pages
...when conceal'd they lie, Wait but for wings, and in their season fly. Who sees pale Mammon pine amid his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor, This year a reservoir to keep and spare, The nest a fountain, spouting through his heir, In lavish streams to quench a country's thirst, And men...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...rounds. Riches, like insects, when conceal'd they lie, Wait but for wings, and in their season fly. Who m And men and dogs shall drink him till they burst. Old Cotta sham'd his fortune and his birth, Yet was...
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Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volume 3

Thomas Brown - 1824 - 514 pages
...lie, Wait but for wings, and in their season fly. Who sees pale Mammon pine amid his store, Sees hut a backward steward for the poor, This year a reservoir...heir. In lavish streams to quench a country's thirst, And men and dogs shall drink him till they burst,"* The desire which is next in order to those already...
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The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by ..., Volume 5

Alexander Pope - 1824 - 430 pages
...Riches, like insects, when conceal'd they lie, Wait but for wings, and in their season fly. 170 Who sees pale Mammon pine amidst his store, Sees but a...to keep and spare ; The next, a fountain, spouting thro' his heir, In lavish streams to quench a country's thirst, 175 And men and dogs shall drink him...
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The Works of Alexander Popekesq., with Notes and Illustrations by ..., Volume 5

Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 pages
...Riches, like insects, when conceal'd they lie, Wait but for wings, and in their season fly. 170 Who sees pale Mammon pine amidst his store, Sees but a...to keep and spare ; The next, a fountain, spouting thro' his heir, In lavish streams to quench a country's thirst, 175 And men and dogs shall drink him...
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The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by ..., Volume 5

Alexander Pope - 1824 - 424 pages
...but the steward of the Prodigal ; and only so much the more backward as the other is precipitate : " This year a reservoir, to keep and spare ; The next, a fountain, spouting thro' his heir." NOTES. Ver. 154. conquers Reason still."] See what is said before of the pernicious...
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The British anthology; or, Poetical library, Volumes 3-4

British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...rounds. Riches, like insects, when conceal'd they lie, Wait but for wings, and in their season fly. Who sees pale Mammon pine amidst his store, Sees but a...heir, In lavish streams to quench a country's thirst, And men and dogs shall drink him till they burst. Old Cotta shamed his fortune and his birth, Yet was...
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A select collection of old plays [ed. by R. Dodsley].

Robert Dodsley, Isaac Reed, Octavius Gilchrist - 1826 - 464 pages
...Dotterel to bring back The antient Spanish custom, where the women 9 lame mat, &c.] So Mr. Pope. Who sees pale Mammon pine amidst his store, Sees but a...heir, In lavish streams to quench a country's thirst, And men and dogs shall drink him till they burst." Inherited the land, rul'd the estates ; The men...
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Select Poets of Great Britain: To which are Prefixed, Criticial Notices of ...

William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...for wings, and in their season fly. Who sees pale Mammon pine amidst his store, Stx's but a baekward ed queneh a eountry's thirst, And men and do,;s shall drink him till they burst. Old Cotta slïam'd his...
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