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 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 582 pàgines
...Conciliation -with A merica. John. Misc. i. 173 ; Payne's Burke, i. 173. 1 Ante, HAMMOND, 4 ; POPE, 202. ' And you, brave Cobham ! to the latest breath Shall...death : Such in those moments as in all the past, " O, save my country, Heav'n ! " shall be your last' POPE, Moral Essays, i. 262. For what he really... | |
 | George Paston - 1909 - 430 pàgines
...fear the knaves should call him fool. The Epistle concludes with a fine compliment to Lord Cobham : And you, brave Cobham ! to the latest breath, Shall feel your ruling passions strong in death : Such in those moments as in all the past, " Oh, save my country, Heaven... | |
 | Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - 1911 - 784 pàgines
...there, alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known. 4369 Pope : Moral Essays. Epis. i. Line 172 And you, brave Cobham ! to the latest breath, Shall feel your Ruling Passion strong in death. 4370 Pope : Moral Essays. Epis. i. Line 262 In men, we various Ruling Passions find ; In women, two... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1912 - 342 pàgines
...adroit transition from censure to compliment, Pope concludes his impeachment of the ' ruling passion ': And you ! brave COBHAM, to the latest breath, Shall...Oh, save my Country, Heav'n! ' shall be your last. ' Whatever were the precise last words of objectionable, is unlikely; and in the sense of 'clearest,'... | |
 | William Stebbing - 1913 - 424 pàgines
...13 The accustomed snarl could be exchanged for a soul-stirring tribute to desert, even in a peer : And you, brave Cobham ! to the latest breath Shall...death : Such in those moments as in all the past, ' 0 save my country, Heaven ! ' shall be your last.14 Or some thirty decasyllabics would raise an eternal... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1913 - 272 pàgines
...five times In his Moral Essays. The two best known examples are in the latter (i. 263, and ill. 153) : "And you, brave Cobham, to the latest breath, Shall feel your ruling passion strong in death." "The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still." 221 : 6. The words... | |
 | John Archibald Venn - 1913 - 978 pàgines
...Pope who often visited him at Stowe, and celebrated him in two of his (perhaps) best known lines : And you, brave Cobham, to the latest breath Shall feel your ruling passion strong in death. Portrait by Sir Godfrey Kneller, as a member of the Kit Cat Club. Ramonden, Gabriel : son of Peter... | |
 | JOHN BARTLETT - 1919 - 1476 pàgines
...would a saint provoke. Were the last words that poor Xarcissa spoke. Line us, And you, brave Oobham ! to the latest breath Shall feel your ruling passion strong in death. Line iea. Whether.the charmer sinner it or saint it. If folly grow romantic, I must paint it. Kputie... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pàgines
...the false sincere; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here. POPE — Moral Essays. Ep. IL 174. g er. FULLER— Church History. Sec. II. Bk. IV. Par. 53. Wickliffe's body was burned, the as POPE— Moral Essays. Ep. IL 262. e In men, we various ruling passions find; In women two almost divide... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 412 pàgines
...manor, hold ! " he cried, "Not that, — I cannot part with that," — ami died. Ami yon, brave Cnbham ! to the latest breath Shall feel your ruling passion...death ; Such in those moments as in all the past, " 0, save my country, Heaven ! " shall be your last. ALEXANDER POPE. CONTRADICTION. FROM "CONVERSATION."... | |
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