 | Thomas Otway, Thomas Thornton - 1813 - 362 pages
...a Book, and falls a reading. . Cour. [Reads] • Wealth is a great Provocative to am'rous heat.— For what is worth in any thing, But so much money as 'twill bring ? Hudibras, part the second^ canto the first. Sylv. Patience direct me! have 1 wrought my nature To utmost sufferance,... | |
 | Thomas Otway, Thomas Thornton - 1813 - 358 pages
...dove-like wife; And is this all I'm worth? Cour. [Reads] Wealth is a great Provocative to am'rous heat. — For what is worth in any thing, But so much money as 'twill bring ? Hudibras, part the second, canto the first. Syle. Patience direct me! have I wrought my nature To utmost sufferance,... | |
 | Thomas Otway, Thomas Thornton - 1813 - 366 pages
...second, canto the first. Cour. [fteads] —•—Wealth is a great Provocative to am'rous heat.— For what is worth in .any thing, But so much money as 'twill bring ? . . , Sylv.' Patience direct mej have I wrought my nature To utmost sufferance, and most low contentment?... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 412 pages
...lay about 'em in romances : 'Tis virtue, wit, and worth, and all That men divine and sacred call : For what is worth in any thing, But so much money as 'twill bring ? Or what but riches is there known Which man can solely call his own, In which no creature goes his... | |
 | Samuel Butler - English poetry - 1819 - 560 pages
...Warburton, " the splendor of gold and silver is more refulgent than the rays of those luminaries." V. 465-6. For what is worth in any thing, But so much money as 'twill bring.} These lines, which are very shrewd and pointed, have obtained a sort of general cirdilation by frequent... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 314 pages
...And lay about 'em in romances : Tis virtue, wit, and worth, and all That men divine and sacred call : For what is worth in any thing, But so much money as 'twill bring ? Or what but riches is there known, Which man can solely call his own, In which no creature goes his... | |
 | Alfred Bunn - Theater - 1840 - 346 pages
...considerable nightly sum to the treasury of the theatre he was engaged in — and we may ask, with Butler, " For what is worth in any thing, But so much money as 'twill bring?" — still the payment, for more reasons than one, is greatly in excess. Then, to think while such actors... | |
 | Alfred Bunn - Theater - 1840 - 288 pages
...considerable nightly sum to the treasury of the theatre he was engaged in — and we may ask, with Butler, " For what is worth in any thing, But so much money as 'twill bring ?" — still the payment, for more reasons than one, is greatly in excess. «• Then, to think while... | |
 | Alfred Bunn - Theater - 1840 - 342 pages
...considerable nightly sum to the treasury of the theatre he was engaged in — and we may ask, with Butler, " For what is worth in any thing, But so much money as 'twill bring?" — still the payment, for more reasons than one, is greatly in excess. Then, to think while such actors... | |
 | William Goodman - Great Britain - 1844 - 378 pages
...scale to know the value of money at those periods, compared with the value at the present time : " For what is worth in any thing But so much money as 't will bring ?" — HUDIBEAS. Yes, thou witty abstracter, but on what the comparative value may be,... | |
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Tis that by which the sun and moon, At their own weapons, are outdone : That makes knights-errant fall in trances, And lay about 'em in romances : Tis virtue, wit, and worth, and all That men divine and sacred call : For what is worth in any thing, But... 
