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" Search then the ruling passion: there, alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known; The fool consistent, and the false sincere; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here. "
The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Fugitive writings - Page 78
by William Hazlitt - 1904
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With a Life, Volume 2

Alexander Pope - 1859 - 330 pages
...Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times. PABT III. SEARCH then the ruling passion : there alone, The...found unravels all the rest, The prospect clears, and Wharton1 stands confest, Wharton ! the scorn and wonder of our days, Whose ruling passion was the lust...
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The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart: The philosophy of the active and ...

Dugald Stewart - 1859 - 444 pages
...Essays, where they are most happily and forcibly illustrated by the character of the Duke of Wharton. " Search, then, the ruling passion : There alone The...princes, women, no dissemblers here. This clue once found uuravels all the rest, The prospect clears, and Wharton stands confest. Wharton, the scorn and wonder...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1859 - 504 pages
...Manners with fortunes, humours turn with elimes, Tenets with books, and prineiples with times. IIL Seareh nd then a place : Much they extoll'd his pietures, much elue once found, unravels all the rest, The prospeet elears, and WHARTON stands confeat. Wharton, the...
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The Philosophy of the Active and Moral Powers of Man

Dugald Stewart - Ethics - 1859 - 472 pages
...Essays, where they are most happily and forcibly illus..rated by the character of the Duke of Wharton. " Search, then, the ruling passion : there alone The...and the false sincere ; Priests, princes, women, no dissemhlers here. This clew, once found, unravels all the rest, The prospect clears, and Wharton stands...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope - 1860 - 542 pages
...Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times. III. Search then the RULING PASSION : there, alone, The...rest, The prospect clears, and WHARTON stands confest. Wharton, the scorn and wonder of our days, Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise : Born with...
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Essays on Freethinking and Plainspeaking

Leslie Stephen - Free thought - 1907 - 506 pages
...Pope's keenest satire. It is a systematic statement of the poet's pet doctrine of the Ruling Passion. Search, then, the ruling passion; there alone The...the rest, The prospect clears, and Wharton stands contest. The same theory, according to Mandeville, will include not only Wharton and Marlborough and...
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Essays on Freethinking and Plainspeaking

Leslie Stephen - Free thought - 1908 - 494 pages
...Pope's keenest satire. It is a systematic statement of the poet's pet doctrine of the Ruling Passion. Search, then, the ruling passion ; there alone The...rest, The prospect clears, and Wharton stands confest. The same theory, according to Mandeville, will include not only Wharton and Marlborough and Chartres...
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A Dictionary of Quotations from English and American Poets: Based Upon Bohn ...

Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1911 - 784 pages
...PASSIONS. Manners with fortunes, humors turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times. Search then the Ruling Passion : there, alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known. 4369 Pope : Moral Essays. Epis. i. Line I7S And you, brave Cobham ! to the latest breath, Shall feel...
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The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by ..., Volume 3

Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1913 - 632 pages
...change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times. Search then the ruling passion : there, alone, The...the rest, The prospect clears, and Wharton stands confesL Wharton, the scorn and wonder of our days, Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise : Born...
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HOYT'S NEW CYCLOPEDIA OF PRACTICAL QUOTATIONS

KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...judgment to do aught, which else free will Would not admit. MILTON— Paradise Lost. Bk. VIII. L. 634. 7 the hearts, and the kws that try Truth, valour, or...Wine. 11 "Orthodoxy, my Lord," said Bishop Warburton POPE — Moral Essays. Ep. IL 174. g And you, brave Cobham! to the latest breath Shall feel your ruling...
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