 | Mrs. John Farrar - 1866 - 376 דפים
...other of Pope ; and Lord Chesterfield wrote these lines on seeing them: " This picture, placed those busts between, Gives satire all its strength; Wisdom...and wit are little seen, But folly at full length." One family, in the habit of going every year to Bath, failed to meet us there; and as their detention... | |
 | Mrs. John Farrar - 1866 - 376 דפים
...other of Pope ; and Lord Chesterfield wrote these lines on seeing them: " This picture, placed those busts between, Gives satire all its strength ; Wisdom...and wit are little seen, But folly at full length." One family, in the habit of going every year to Bath, failed to meet us there ; and as their detention... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 414 דפים
...where Beau Nash presided, and his picture hung between the busts of Newton and Pope : " This picture, placed these busts between, Gives satire all its strength...and Wit are little seen, But Folly at full length." and knew how to make itself respected. I should like to have seen that noble old madcap Peterborough... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 410 דפים
...where Beau Nash presided, and his picture hung between the busts of Newton and Pope : " This picture, placed these busts between, Gives satire all its strength...and Wit are little seen, But Folly at full length." I should like to have seen the Folly. It was a splendid, embroidered, beruffled, snuff-boxed, red-heeled,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 414 דפים
...where Beau Nash presided, and his picture hung between the busts of Newton and Pope : ' ' This picture, placed these busts between, Gives satire all its strength...and Wit are little seen, But Folly at full length." and knew how to make itself respected. I should like to have seen that noble old madcap Peterborough... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 410 דפים
...where Beau Nash presided, and his picture hung between the busts of Newton and Pope : " This picture, placed these busts between, Gives satire all its strength...and Wit are little seen, But Folly at full length." I should like to have seen the Folly. It was a splendid, embroidered, beruffled, snuff-boxed, red-heeled,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1869 - 1502 דפים
...e'er penn'da joke More cruel on mankind. " The picture placed the busts between Gives satire its full strength ; Wisdom and Wit are little seen. But Folly at full length." There is also a full-length picture of Mr. Nash in Simpson's Ball-room, and his statue at full-length... | |
 | Henry Philip Dodd - 1870 - 652 דפים
...here you'll find ; Nor Pope himself e'er penn'da joke More cruel on mankind. The picture, plac'd the busts between, Gives satire all its strength : Wisdom...and Wit are little seen, But Folly at full length. This is taken from the " Festoon," published in the lifetime of the Enrl. It is not found in his "... | |
 | 1870 - 972 דפים
...caused Lord Chesterfield's stinging epigram concluding with these lines : "The etatue placed these buste between Gives satire all its strength ; Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly at full length." George Selwyn, one of the remarkable Englishmen of a hundred years ago, marred an otherwise exceedingly... | |
 | Andrew Steinmetz - 1870 - 470 דפים
...Chesterfield, concluding with these lines : " The statue placed these busts betwecn Gives satire ull its strength ; Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly at full length."'* • The Book of Days, Feb. 3. THE GAMING TABLE. 295 THE EARL OF CHESTERFIELD. Walpole tells us that the celebrated... | |
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This picture, placed these busts between, Gives satire all its strength : Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly at full length. 
