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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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Parsing Book: Containing Rules of Syntax, and Models for Analyzing and ...

Allen Hayden Weld - 1853 - 120 pages
...but a backward steward for the poor This year a reservoir4 to keep and spare, The next a fountain,4 spouting through his heir, In lavish streams to quench a country's thirst, And men and dogs shall drink him till they burst 30 'Rule XIX. ! Rule XI. 3 Rule XXI , Rem. 3. « Rule...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Ed. by R. Carruthers, Volume 4

Alexander Pope - 1854 - 338 pages
...Riches, like insects, when concealed 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...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 4

Alexander Pope - 1854 - 340 pages
...Riches, like insects, when concealed 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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A Complete Dictionary of Poetical Quotations: Comprising the Most Excellent ...

Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 610 pages
...for wings, and in their season fly ; Who sees pale Mammon pine amidst his store Sees but a baekward steward for the poor ; This year a reservoir, to keep...fountain, spouting through his heir, In lavish streams to queneh a eountry's thirst, And men and dogs shall drink him till they burst. Pope's Moral Essays. Wealth...
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The Old Court Suburb: Or, Memorials of Kensington, Regal, Critical ..., Volume 1

Leigh Hunt - 1855 - 334 pages
...the funds, which was shared among five or six day-labourers, who were his nearest relations." " Who sees pale Mammon pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor." The High Street of Kensington, though the place is so near London, and contains so many new buildings,...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2

Alexander Pope - 1856 - 362 pages
...Riches, like insects, when conceal'd they lie, Wait but for wings, and in their season fly. iro 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...
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Great Truths by Great Authors: A Dictionary of Aids to Reflection ...

1856 - 570 pages
...skulking last, with Selfishness and Fear, And dies, collecting lumber in the rear ! &b at ice,— Pope. Sees but a backward steward for the poor ; This year,...heir, In lavish Streams to quench a Country's thirst, And men and dogs shall drink him till they burst. abartce,— - pope. "WEALTH in the gross is death,...
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A Complete Dictionary of Poetical Quotations: Comprising the Most Excellent ...

Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1856 - 624 pages
...for wings, and in their season fly ; Who sees pale Mammon pine amidst his store Sees but a baekward steward for the poor; This year a reservoir, to keep and spare; The next a fountain, sluuting through his heir, In lavish streams to queneh a eountry's thirst, And men and dogs shall drink...
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The Works of Alexander Pope ...

Alexander Pope - 1856 - 512 pages
...duration founds, And gives the eternal wheels to know their rounds, Who sees pale Mammon pine amidst bis store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor; This year a reservior to keep and spare, The next a fountain spouting through his heir In lavish streams to quench...
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The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 36

1857 - 802 pages
...tenure of wealthy avarice ends at last, and the great law of equilibrium again asserts its sway. " Who sees pale Mammon pine amidst his store, Sees but a...to keep and spare ; The next a fountain, spouting thro' his heir." It is because Mr. Peabody is of another stamp — it is because his whole course and...
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