 | Richard Graves - English poetry - 1806 - 200 pages
...the wit, smart things to divert the assembly. It was knocked down however to a broker, who paid no regard to the orator's fine speeches, but to the old...glass, and begged the ladies to examine it ; they 2\\ immediately snatched the opportunity of surveying their pretty faces, and pronounced it a moft... | |
 | Henry Fielding, Arthur Murphy - 1806 - 484 pages
...watch, snuff-box, or ring, that is considered by the robber, who always thinks with Hudibras, What is the worth of any thing, But so much money as t'will bring ? • • ' • 1 shall add but one particular more ; which is, that my scheme would most certainly... | |
 | 1822 - 694 pages
...with certain persons of great prudence and worldly wisdom, whose stock-lines of poetry are, % " For what's the worth of any thing, But so much money as 'twill hring * ?" One should condemn the fine arts in toto, as useless superfluities of civilization ; one... | |
 | 1824 - 624 pages
...is " part and parcel of the law of the land :" and both parties will be equally right ; for, What "s the worth of any thing But so much money as 'twill bring ? To those rovers in love who are perpetually railing against the " tou jours perdrix" and who complain... | |
 | David Hoffman - Etiquette - 1841 - 400 pages
...all th' affairs of church and state Is both the balance and the weight ;' If they seriously ask, 'For what's the worth "of any thing But so much money as 'twill bring?' And if — but why any more ifs — their consolations are indefinite, if they'll only turn their mind... | |
 | Christopher Legge Lordan - English poetry - 1844 - 296 pages
...pleasurable, though certainly less profitable, if estimated by the Hudibrastic standard — " What is the worth of any thing But so much money as 'twill bring?" Then, too, I had scruples, suggested by admiration of Consistency and reverence of Truth, which, perhaps,... | |
 | Materials - 1846 - 478 pages
...THE BEST AUTHOHS. 'Tis virtue, wit, and worth, and all, That men divine and sacred call ; For what'a the worth of any thing, But so much money as t'will bring? — Hud-ibras. ccxxxvn. On Character. — A man who would preserve his integrity untainted, should... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...falls down before: 'Tis virtue, wit, and worth, and all That men divine and sacred call; For what 's the worth of any thing, But so much money as 'twill bring? Butler. See what money can do: that can change Men's manners; alter their conditions! How tempestuous... | |
 | Willis's Current notes - 1856 - 110 pages
...Hudibras, Part II. Canto i., Edit. 1678, p. 210. This couplet has since undergone a slight change, For what's the worth of any thing-, But so much money as 'twill bring. Athenian Sport, 1724, 8vo. p. 154. But a more recent adaptation in the Gentleman's Magazine, Sept.... | |
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twill bring? " I shall add but one particular more; which is, that my scheme would most certainly provide for the poor, and that by an infallible (perhaps the only infallible) method, by removing the rich. Where there are no rich, there will of consequence... 
