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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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New Cyclopaedia of Poetical Illustrations: Adapted to Christian Teaching ...

1872 - 710 pages
...know their Riches, like insects, when concealed they "Wait but for wings, and in their season fly. Who sees pale Mammon pine amidst his store, Sees but a...spare, The next, a fountain spouting through his heir. Alexander Ape. 1197. EYE, Pall and Recovery by the. She saw ; she took ; she ate ; Death entered by...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope - 1873 - 590 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...the Poor ; This year a Reservoir, to keep and spare 2 ; The next, a Fountain, spouting thro" his Heir, In lavish streams to quench a Country's thirst,...
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Literary Papers

Thomas Craddock - 1873 - 424 pages
...has not to pay for, — it gave no credit to Daniel and his sister for their philanthrophy. « Who sees pale Mammon pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward of the poor ; This year a reservoir, to keep and spare, The next a fountain, spouting through his heir....
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A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 12

1875 - 640 pages
...Inherited the land, rul'd the estates ; The men were given in marriage to the women i So Pope— " Who sees pale Mammon pine amidst his store. Sees but a...; The next, a fountain, spouting through his heir, la lavish streams to quench a country's thirst. Aud men and dogs shall drink him till they burst."...
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Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson: With Copious Indexes ...

Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 pages
...it less strange the prodigal should waste His wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste? POPE. Who sees pale Mammon pine amidst his store, Sees but a...; The next, a fountain spouting through his heir. POPE. Benighted wanderers the forest o'er, Curse the saved candle and unopening door; While the gaunt...
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POPE, SELECTED POEMS; THE ESSAY ON CRITICISM; THE MORAL ESSAYS; THE DUNCIAD

THOMAS ARNOLD - 1876 - 312 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...spare, The next, a fountain spouting through his heir, 170 In lavish streams to quench a country's thirst, And men and dogs shall drink him till they burst....
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Chaucer to Burns

Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 840 pages
...pale Mammon pine amidst his store Sees Nut a backward steward for the poor This year, a reservoir, lo Parent-Heaven 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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A dictionary of poetical illustrations

Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...Gav. Riches, like insects, when conceal'd they lie, Wait but for wings, and in their season fly ; Who the sun And men and dogs shall drink him till they burst. Pope. 252. AVARICE : in the young. YOCHG men to imitate...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope - 1878 - 532 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...spare : The next, a fountain, spouting through his hair, In lavish streams to quench a country's thirst, And men and dogs shall drink him till they burst....
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Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson

Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 pages
...it less strange the prodigal should waste His wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste ? POPE. Who sees pale Mammon pine amidst his store, Sees but a...steward for the poor; This year a reservoir, to keep and spara; The next, a fountain spouting through his heir. POPE. Benighted wanderers the forest o'er, Curse...
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