 | Dublin University Magazine,A Literary and Political Journal - 1867 - 726 pages
...Though secure of our hearts, yet confoundedly sic4 If they were not h!e own by finessing and trick, He cast off his friends, as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleased he could whistle them back. Of praise a mere glutton, he swallowed what came, And the puff... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Edmund Forster Blanchard - English poetry - 1867 - 200 pages
...Though secure of our hearts, yet confoundedly sick If they were not his own by finessing and trick : He cast off his friends, as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleased he could whistle them back. Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations - 1867 - 752 pages
...to sleep, A shade that follows wealth or fame, And leaves the wretch to weep. Goldsmith, Hermit, 19. He cast off his friends, as a huntsman his pack, For he knew, when he pleased, he could whistle them back. Goldsmith, Retaliation. I have too deeply read mankind To be amus'd... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1868 - 276 pages
...Kellys, and \Voodfalls etc. William Kenrick — a lexicographer, dramatist, and reviewer. He was noted He cast off his friends, as a huntsman his pack, For...he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back. Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff of a dunce he mistook it for fame ;... | |
 | Metrical epitaphs - 1868 - 266 pages
...Though secure of our hearts, yet confoundedly sick, If they were not his own by finessing and trick : He cast off his friends, as a huntsman his pack ; For he knew when he pleased he could whistle them back. Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff... | |
 | Washington Irving - Authors, Irish - 1868 - 486 pages
...Though secure of our hearts, yet confoundedly sick If they were not his own by finessing and trick : He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew, when he pleased, he could whistle them back. Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff... | |
 | James Whiteside - Great Britain - 1868 - 518 pages
...Though secure of our hearts, yet confoundedly sick, If they were not his own by finessing and trick. He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleased he conld whistle them back. Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff... | |
 | New York Public Library - Classified catalogs - 1914 - 616 pages
...Though secure of our hearts, yet confoundedly sick, If they were not his own by finessing and trick: He cast off his friends, as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleased he could whistle them back. And here is Edmund Burke: Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius... | |
 | English poetry - 1916 - 792 pages
...: Tho' secure of our hearts, yet confoundedly sick If they were not his own by finessing and trick; epherd's flute With his hard bleak steel at the patient reed, Till pleased he could whistle them back. Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, 109 And the puff... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 944 pages
...Though secure of our hearts, yet confoundedly sick 105 If they were not his own by finessing and trick; He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleased he could whistle them back. Of praise a mere glutton, he swallowed what came, And the puff... | |
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Though secure of our hearts, yet confoundedly sick If they were not his own by finessing and trick: He cast off his friends, as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleased he could whistle them back. 
