When riotous Excess, with wasteful hand, Shakes life's frail glass, and hastes each ebbing sand, Unmindful from what stock he drew his birth, Untainted with one deed of real worth, Lothario, holding honour at no price, Folly to folly added, vice to vice,... Peers and parvenus - Seite 206von Catherine Grace F. Gore - 1846Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 628 Seiten
...own. . From his youth upwards, to tlie present day, When vices more than years have mark'd him grey, When riotous Excess with wasteful hand Shakes life's...stock he drew his birth, Untainted with one deed of real worth, Lothario, folding honour at no price, Folly to folly added, vice to vice, Wrought sin wit})... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 622 Seiten
...vices more than years have mark'd him grey, When riotous Excess with wasteful hand Shakes life'sfrail glass, and hastes each ebbing sand, Unmindful from...stock he drew his birth, Untainted with one deed of real worth, Lothario, holding honour at no price, Folly to folly added, vice to vice, Wrought sin with... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 622 Seiten
...grey, When riotous Excess with wasteful hand Shakes life's frail glass, and hastes each ebbing,sand, Unmindful from what stock he drew his birth, Untainted with one deed of real worth, Lothario, holding honour at no price, Folly to folly added, vice to vice, Wrought sin with... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 276 Seiten
...gray, When riotous excess, with wasteful hand, [sand, Shakes life's frail glass, and hastes each ebbing Unmindful from what stock he drew his birth, Untainted with one deed of real worth, Lothario, holding honour at no price, Folly to folly added, vice to vice, • [shame Wrought... | |
| Richard Alfred Davenport - 1824 - 406 Seiten
...gray, When riotous excess, with wasteful hand, [sand, Shakes life's frail glass, and hastes each ebbing Unmindful from what stock he drew his birth, Untainted with one deed of real worth, Lothario, holding honour at no price, Folly to folly added, vice to vice, [shame Wrought... | |
| John Bull - 1825 - 782 Seiten
...more than years, have mark'd him gray, When riotous excess, with wasteful hand. Shakes life's fraij glass, and hastes each ebbing sand, unmindful from...stock he drew his birth. Untainted with one deed of real worth, Lothario, holding honour at no price, i'olly to folly added, vice to vice, Wrought sin... | |
| Laconics - 1829 - 390 Seiten
...— Swift. DCLXXXL From his youth upwards to the present dav When vices, more than years, have mark'J him gray, When riotous excess, with wasteful hand,...stock he drew his birth, Untainted with one deed of real worth, Lothario, holding honour at no price, i'olly to folly added, vice to vice, Wrought sin... | |
| John Timbs - 1829 - 354 Seiten
...Swift. DCLXXXI. From his youth upwards to the present day When vices, more than years, have mark'd him gray, When riotous excess, with wasteful hand,...stock he drew his birth, Untainted with one deed of real worth, Lothario, holding honour at no price, Folly to folly added, vice to vice, Wrought sin with... | |
| Charles Churchill, William Tooke - 1844 - 380 Seiten
...their own. so6 From his youth upwards to the present day, When vices, more than years, have mark'd him gray; When riotous excess, with wasteful hand,...stock he drew his birth, Untainted with one deed of real worth, si« Lothario, holding honour at no price, Folly to folly added, vice to vice ; Wrought... | |
| Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances) - 1846 - 328 Seiten
...intended for Lord John, he is wise enough to abstain from society where he would be so completely out of his level. ' Order is Heaven's first law!' and...honour at no price, Folly to folly adds, and vice to vice. CHURCHILL. LORD HILLINGDON was a man who, after devoting his best years to the extinction of... | |
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