 Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, He had not the method of making a fortune : Could love, and could hate, so was thought somewhat odd ; No very great wit, he believed in a God : A post or a pension he did not desire, But left Church and...  The Quarterly Review - Pagina 392geredigeerd door - 1914Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Epigrammatists - 1870 - 654 pagina’s
...hate, so was thought something odd ; No very great wit, be believed in a God ; A post or a pension be did not desire, But left Church and State to Charles Townshend and Squire. This was written in 1761, in which year Charles Townshend was made Secretary-at-AVar. The epigram probably... | |
 | Charles Stokes Carey - 1872 - 314 pagina’s
...love and could hate, so 'twas thought something odd; Xo very great wit, he believed in a God : A post or a pension he did not desire, But left Church and State to Charles Townshend and Squire. ON DE JOHNSON'S DICTIONABY. TALK of war with a Briton, he'll boldly advance That one English soldier... | |
 | 1874 - 772 pagina’s
...of Bristol and bp. of St Davids : died 1766. Gray says in his character of himself (1761), 'A post or a pension he did not desire, But left church and state to Charles Townshend and Squire.* Bishop Warburton said to dean Tucker of Gloster, that never bishoprick was so tedeantJ, for that his... | |
 | Edward Walford - 1877 - 370 pagina’s
...an eminent statesman and parliamentary orator; it is he to whom Gray alludes in the lines, " A post or a pension he did not desire, But left Church and State to Charles Townshend and Squire." George Townshend, however, the eldest son, was a man of equal talents, and he completed the edifice... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 642 pagina’s
...love, and could hate, so was thought somewhat.odd ; No very great wit, he believed in a God : A post or a pension he did not desire, But left church and state to Charles Townshend and Squire. IMPROMPTU, ON LoftD HOLLAND'S SEAT AT KINGSGATE. Old, and abandoned by each venal friend, Here Holland... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 636 pagina’s
...and too proud to importune ; He had not the method of making a fortune : Could love, and could hate, so was thought somewhat odd ; No very great wit, he believed in a God : A post or a pension he did not desire, But left church and state to Charles Townshend and Squire. IMPROMPTU,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 632 pagina’s
...and too proud to importune ; He had not the method of making a fortune : Could love, and could hate, so was thought somewhat odd ; No very great wit, he believed in a God: A post or a pension he did not desire, IMPROMPTU, ON LORD HOLLAND'S SEAT AT KINGSGATE. Old, and abandoned... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1881 - 632 pagina’s
...and too proud to importune; He had not the method of making a fortune: Could love, and could hate, so was thought somewhat odd ; No very great wit, he believed in a God : A post or a pension he did not desire, IMPROMPTU, ON LORD HOLLAND'S SEAT AT KINGSGATE. Old, and abandoned... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1882 - 252 pagina’s
...love, and could hate, so was thought somewhat odd; No very great wit, he believed in a God ; A post or a pension he did not desire, But left Church and State to Charles Townshend and Squire." It lias been commonly supposed that these lines suggested to Goldsmith his character of Burke in Retaliation.... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1882 - 246 pagina’s
...and too proud to importune, He had not the method of making a fortune ; Could love, and could hate, so was thought somewhat odd ; No very great wit, he believed in a God ; A post or a pension he did not desire, But left church and state to Charles Townshend and Squire. It... | |
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