 | Sir John Denham - 1928 - 386 pages
...rage? Was't Luxury, or Lust? Was he so temperate, so chast, so just? 120 Were these their crimes? They were his own much more: But wealth is Crime enough to him that's poor, Who having spent the Treasures of his Crown, Condemns their Luxury to feed his own. And yet this Act, to varnish... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1909 - 538 pages
...rage ? Was 't luxury, or lust ? Was he so temperate, so chaste, so just? Were these their crimes? they were his own much more, But wealth is crime enough to him that's poor."1 5 This same wealth, which is at all times treason and Icsc nation to indigent and rapacious... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...rage? Was't luxury, or lust? Was he so temperate, so chast, so just? 120 Were these their crimes? They were his own much more: But wealth is crime enough to him that's poor. Who having spent the treasures of his crown. Condemns their luxury to feed his own. And yet this act, to vamish... | |
 | Claude J. Summers, Ted-Larry Pebworth - 1999 - 291 pages
...rage? was't Luxury, or Lust? Was he so temperate, so chast, so just? Were these their crimes? they were his own much more: But wealth is Crime enough to him that's poor, Who having spent the Treasures of his Crown, Condemns their Luxury to feed his own. (118-24) The caution with... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1955 - 384 pages
...Was't luxury, or lust ? ' Was he so temperate, so chaste, so just ? ' Were these their crimes? they were his own much more, 'But wealth is crime enough to him that's poor*." The rest of the passage is this : ' Who having spent the treasures of his crown, ' Condemns their luxury... | |
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Th' adjoining abbey fell. (May no such storm Fall on our times, where ruin must reform!) Tell me, my Muse! what monstrous dire offence, What crime could any Christian king incense To such a rage ? Was't luxury or lust ? Was he so temperate, so chaste,... 
