 | Samuel Butler, Robert Thyer - 1759 - 538 pages
...As well as Standing and Degrees, He ftill writes better than the reft, That's of the Houfe, that's counted beft. Far greater Numbers have been loft by...Ammunitions of Defpair Were ever able to difpatch by Fear. There's Nothing our Felicities endears, Like that, which falls among our Doubts and Fears, And in the... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1803 - 522 pages
...are clubb'd t' an Auftrlan child : And as wit goes by colleges, As well as ftanding and degrees, 480 He ftill writes better than the reft, That 's of the...greater numbers have been loft by hopes, Than all the magaimes of daggers, ropes, And other ammunitions of defpair 4? 5 Were ever able to difpsteh by fear.... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 312 pages
...writes better than the rest, That's of the house that's counted best. FAR greater numbers have been lost by hopes, Than all the magazines of daggers, ropes, And other ammunitions of despair, Were ever able to dispatch—by fear. THERE 's nothing our felicities endears Like that which... | |
 | Literary gems - 1826 - 718 pages
...pleasanter the colder. ' . . .../.'.. I'-'I.-IIT?-:. vu-. ., : .i,\ Far greater numbers have been lost by hopes, Than all the magazines of daggers, ropes, And other ammunitions of despair, '/: ;.: :r Were ever able to dispatch by fear. 1 .;.-. .1 t* L . >f: I.. . J :":... -I. When... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1827 - 344 pages
...better than the rest, That's of the house, that's counted best. Far greater numbers have been lost by hopes Than all the magazines of daggers, ropes, And other ammunitions of despair Were ever able to dispatch by fear. There's nothing our felicities endears, Like that, which... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 pages
...cases, when death must be expelled by death. — Fuller. MCCCLXXVIIL Far greater numbers have been lost by hopes, Than all the magazines of daggers, ropes, And other ammunitions of despair Were ever able to despatch by fear. Butler. MCCCLXXIX. The pleasure of the religious man is... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 328 pages
...better than the rest, That 's of the house that 's counted best. FAR greater numbers have been lost by hopes, Than all the magazines of daggers, ropes, And other ammunitions of despair, Were ever able to dispatch by fear. THERE 's nothing our felicities endears Like that which... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 316 pages
...better than the rest, That 's of the house that 's counted best. FAR greater numbers have been lost by hopes, Than all the magazines of daggers, ropes, And other ammunitions of despair, Were ever able to dispatch by fear. THERE 's nothing our felicities endears Like that which... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1854 - 312 pages
...writes better than the rest, That's of the house that's counted best. Far greater numbers have been lost by hopes Than all the magazines of daggers, ropes, And other ammunitions of despair, Were ever able to despatch by fear. There's nothing our felicities endears, Like that which... | |
 | Samuel Butler, George Gilfillan - 1854 - 318 pages
...writes better than the rest, That's of the house that's counted best. Far greater numbers have been lost by hopes Than all the magazines of daggers, ropes, And other ammunitions of despair, Were ever able to despatch by fear. There's nothing our felicities endears, Like that which... | |
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Far greater numbers have been lost by hopes Than all the magazines of daggers, ropes, And other ammunitions of despair, Were ever able to despatch by fear. 
