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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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The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings, Volume 1

William Hogarth - 1833 - 396 pages
...into one point of view what Mr. Pope so exquisitely describes in his Epistle to Lord Bathurst — 'Who sees pale Mammon pine amidst his store, Sees but a...; The next a fountain, spouting through his heir.' The introduction to this history is well delineated, and the principal figure marked with that easy,...
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The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful ..., Volume 3

1834 - 532 pages
...Wait but for wing*, and in their sMion fly. Who seen [uli- Mammon pinta amidst bis store, Srea I ait a backward steward for the poor ; This year a reservoir,...and spare ; The next a fountain, spouting through ln« heir. In lavish streams to quench n country'* thirst, I And mtn and dog* ihull drink him til)...
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The works of Alexander Pope; with a memoir of the author, notes ..., Volume 2

Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 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...and dogs shall drink him till they burst. Old Cotta shamed his fortune and his birth, Yet was not Cotta void of wit or worth. What though, the use of barbarous...
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The Poetical Works of A. Pope: Including His Translation of Homer , to which ...

Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 pages
...wings, and in their season fly. 170 Who sees pale Mammon pine amidst his store, Sees hut a hackward c stream** to quench a country's thirst. And men and dugs shall drink him till they hurst. Old Cotta...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., to which is Prefixed ..., Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1836 - 332 pages
...like insects, when conceal'd they lie, Wait -but for wings, and in their season fly. 57'? Who sens pale Mammon pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward...steward for the poor ; This year a reservoir to keep asid spare, The next a fountain, spouting through his heir, In lavish streams to quench a country's...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Ed. by H.F. Cary, with a biogr. notice ...

Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...rounds. Riches, like insects, when conceal'd they lie, Wait but for wings, and in their season fly. Who f4i G p M F 0 v L W < 4b H Ȇ$ ? And men and dogs shall drink him till they burst. ~ The two persons hero mentioned were of quality,...
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Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson ...

John Aikin - 1841 - 840 pages
...backward steward for the poor; 2H ЕРМТ. III. POPE. БРИТ, щ. This year, a reservoir, to keep end s and empires in thy fortune join. And Europe's destiny depends on thine. At length the long-disputed pa And men and dogs shall drink him till they burst Old Cotta shara'd his fortune and his birth, Yet was...
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Change for the American Notes: In Letters from London to New York, Issue 2

Henry Wood (Yorkshire journalist.), Henry Wood (Yorkshire journalist) - 1843 - 154 pages
...(the Louis Philippe of that day), how to amass wealth for bia strangely-charactered son to dissipate : "This year a reservoir, To keep and spare ; The next, a fountain spouting through his heir." And in these rooms communed Mary with her stern prelates, and Elizabeth with her grave councillors...
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Select Works of the British Poets, in a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson ...

John Aikin - 1843 - 830 pages
...rounds. Riches, like insects, when conceal'd they lie, Wait but for wings, and in their season fly. Who s heav'd ; 2H POPE. EFlST. IIL This year, a reservoir, to keep and spare ; The next, a fountain, spouting through...
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Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson ...

John Aikin - 1843 - 826 pages
...Riches, like insects, when conceal'd they lie, Wait but for wings, and in their season fly. Who sees pnle Our happy state, under one head more near United. But to 2H EPIST. III. POPE. EPIST. HI. This year, a reservoir, lo keep and spare ; The next, a fountain, spouting...
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