 | Alfred Guy L'Estrange - 1878 - 370 sayfa
...placed an insuperable obstacle in the way of his ambition. He writes of himself. " Had he but spared his tongue and pen He might have rose like other men...; But power was never in his thought And wealth he valued not a groat." In his poem on his own death, written in 1731, he concludes with the following... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1881 - 368 sayfa
...his head ; But not a traitor could be found, To sell him for six hundred pound. ' Had he but spared his tongue and pen, He might have rose like other...But power was. never in his thought, And wealth he valued not a groat: Ingratitude he often found, And pitied those who meant to wound ; But kept the... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 518 sayfa
...his head ; But not a traitor could be found, To sell him for six hundred pound. ^ " Had he but spared his tongue and pen, He might have rose like other...But power was never in his thought, And wealth he valued not a groat : Ingratitude he often found. And pitied those who meant the wound ; But kept the... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 860 sayfa
...price upon his head ; But not a traitor could be found, To sell him for six hundred pound. 4 Had he but spar'd his tongue and pen, He might have rose like...And pitied those who meant the wound : But kept the tenor of his mind, To merit well of human kind : Nor made a sacrifice of those Who still were true,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 864 sayfa
...found, To sell him for six hundred pound. 'Had he but spar'd his tongue and pen, He might have ruse spite, or smut, or rhymes, ތ w Aûd pitied those who meant the wound : But kept the tenor of his mind, To merit well of human kind... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 582 sayfa
...330) that he ' Without regarding private ends Spent all his credit for his friends. Had he but spared his tongue and pen, He might have rose like other...But power was never in his thought, And wealth he valued not a groat.' On April 5, 1711, he wrote of the assurances given him by the ministers : —... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1908 - 562 sayfa
...pound. He might have rose like other men; 110 But power was never in his thought, And wealth he valued not a groat. Ingratitude he often found, And pitied those who meant the wound; But kept the tenor of his mind, 115 To merit well of humankind, Nor made a sacrifice of those Who still were true,... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - 1909 - 892 sayfa
...upon his head; But not a traitor could be found, To sell him for six hundred pound. 'Had he but spared his tongue and pen, He might have rose like other...But power was never in his thought, And wealth he valued not a groat; Ingratitude he often found, And pitied those who meant the wound; But kept the... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1910 - 424 sayfa
...reward 3 f J But not a traitor could be found, To sell him for six hundred pound. " Had he but spared his tongue and pen He might have rose like other men...But power was never in his thought, And wealth he valued not a groat: I ngraUUide,Jie^jgjrten_fou,rid, And pitied those "who meant the wound: But kept... | |
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Two kingdoms, just as faction led, Had set a price upon his head; But, not a traitor could be found, To sell him for six hundred pound. 'Had he but spar'd his tongue and pen, He might have rose like other men... 
