 | George Gilfillan - 1860 - 362 pages
...often missed his aim, The world must own it to their shame, The praise is his, and theirs the blame. He gave the little wealth he had To build a house...further lashes, Methinks you may forgive his ashes.' A CHARACTER, PANEGYRIC, AND DESCRIPTION OF THE LEGION-CLUB. 1736. As I stroll the city, oft I See a... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1860 - 1090 pages
...sermon, you m'y swear.' "He gave the little wealth he had To build a house for fools and mad ; And show'd by one satiric touch No nation wanted it so much. That kingdom he had left his debtor, I wish it soon may have a bettor." THE DEAN AND DUKE. 1734. .1 AMES BRYDCES and... | |
 | Francis Sylvester Mahony - 1860 - 650 pages
...make the singular disposal of his property which (after the loss of his only child) he resolved on : "He gave the little wealth he had To build a house for people mad, To shew, by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much." But this bitter pleasantry... | |
 | Francis Mahony - 1860 - 654 pages
...make the singular disposal of his property which (after the loss of his only child) he resolved on : "He gave the little wealth he had To build a house for people mad, To shew, by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much." But this bitter pleasantry... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1861 - 324 pages
...own fate. He himself assigned another reason. He says in his poem on his own death : — " He left the little wealth he had To build a house for fools and mad, To show by one satiric touch, No nation needed it ao much." The reputation of Swift has suffered from a variety of causes. He was the leading... | |
 | Henry Watkins Allen - 1861 - 270 pages
...wretched death. He outlived his greatness, and became a drivelling idiot. He made a strange will. " He gave the little wealth he had To build a house for fools and mad ; And showed by one satiric touch No nation wanted it so much." The river Liffey, so much boasted of... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1861 - 580 pages
...calamity ; and sad enough, we may be sure, he was at heart, when he gaily wrote that he did so merely To show, by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much.* ' " I have often" saya Lord Orrery, " heard him lament tho state of childhood and idiotism to which... | |
 | John Timbs - 1862 - 424 pages
...establishing such an institution ; for in 1731, in his verses on his own death occurs this stanza : " He gave the little wealth he had, To build a house for fools or mad, And showed, by cue satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much. " In 1732, he spoke to Sir William... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1862 - 578 pages
...calamity ; and sad enough, we may be sure, he was at heart, when he gaily wrote that he did so merely To show, by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much.* Yet the madness, or predisposition to madness, was also part and parcel of the man, and possibly an... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1863 - 564 pages
...calamity ; and sad enough, we may be sure, he was at heart, when ho gaily wrote that he did so merely To show, by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much.* Yet the madness, or predisposition to madness, was also part and parcel of the man, and possibly an... | |
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He gave the little wealth he had, To build a house for fools and mad: And showed by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much: That kingdom he hath left his debtor, I wish it soon may have a better. 
