 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 504 pages
...of Home in his days as he is of Britain in ours ; and though all the foolish industry possible has been used to make it thought a party play, yet what...lost, And factions strive who shall applaud him most." When it was first acted, the numerous and violent claps of the Whig party on the one side of the theatre... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 474 pages
...of Rome in his days as he is of Britain in ours ; and though all the foolish industry possible has been used to make it thought a party play, yet what...lost, And factions strive who shall applaud him most." When it was first acted, the numerous and violent claps of the Whig party on the one side of the theatre... | |
 | Robert Carruthers - 1857 - 554 pages
...ours j and though all the foolish industry possible has been used to make it thought a party-play, yet what the author once said of another may the most...numerous and violent claps of the Whig party on the one side of the theatre were echoed back by the Tories on the other ; while the author sweated behind... | |
 | 1857 - 574 pages
...of Rome in his days, as he is of Britain in ours; and although all the foolish industry possible had been used to make it thought a party play, yet, what...lost, And factions strive who shall applaud him most." On the 18th of June, 1714, appeared the first number of a continuation of the " Spectator," for which... | |
 | Robert Carruthers - 1857 - 578 pages
...in ours; and though all the foolish industry possible has been used to make it thought a party-play, yet what the author once said of another may the most...this occasion: " ' Envy itself is dumb, in wonder loft, And factions strive, who shall applaud him most.' " The numerous and violent claps of the Whig... | |
 | Joseph Addison, George Gilfillan - 1859 - 428 pages
...The nation thanks them with a public voice, By showers of blessings Heaven approves their choice ; Envy itself is dumb, in wonder lost, And factions strive who shall applaud them most. Soon as soft vernal breezes warm the sky, Britannia's colours in the zephyrs fly ; Her chief... | |
 | 1859 - 828 pages
...afraid, what they must all come to. [Exeunt. € AT A TRAGEDY, IN FIVE ACTS. BY JOSEPH ADDISON. REMARKS. Envy itself is dumb, in wonder lost, And factions strive who shall applaud hi •; most. POPE, writing to Sir W. Trumbull, has well applied these words of our author, (on some... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1862 - 356 pages
...of Rome in his days, as he is of Britain in ours ; and though all the foolish industry possible has been used to make it thought a party play, yet, what...lost, And factions strive who shall applaud him most.' Then came to Addison that review of one's life which every one makes from time to time. The remembrance... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 882 pages
...of Rome in his days, as he is of Britain in ours ; and though all the foolish industry possible has been used to make it thought a party play, yet what...numerous and violent claps of the Whig party on the one side of the theatre were echoed back by the Tories on the other ; while the author sweated behind... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1867 - 334 pages
...of Rome in his days, as he is of Britain in ours; and though all the foolish industry possible has been used to make it thought a party play, yet what...numerous and violent claps of the Whig party on the one side of the theatre were echoed back by the Tories on the other; while the author sweated behind... | |
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Cato was not so much the wonder of Rome in his days, as he is of Britain in ours ; and though all the foolish industry possible has been used to make it thought a party play, yet what the author once said of another may the most properly in the world... 
