 | James Parton - 1884 - 734 דפים
...here you '11 find ; Nor Pope himself e'er penn'da joke More cruel on mankind. " The picture placed the busts between, Gives satire all its strength ; Wisdom...Wit are little seen — But Folly at full length." ON SCOTLAND. " HAD Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom; Nor forced him wander, but confined... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - 1884 - 472 דפים
...here you'll find ; Nor Pope himself e'er penn'da joke More cruel on mankind. " The picture placed the busts between, Gives satire all its strength ; Wisdom...Wit are little seen — But Folly at full length." EPIGRAM OF CLEVELAND. On Scotland. "Had Cain been Scot, God would changed his doom ; have EPIGRAMS... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1885 - 416 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 Jesse - 1886 - 456 דפים
...a joke, More cruel on mankind. Beau Nas^ The picture placed the busts between, Gives Satire all her strength ; Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly at full length. Beau Nash was buried in the Abbey Church at Bath, on the 3rd February, 1761, having lived to the great... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - 914 דפים
...between the busts of Newton and Pope t "This picture, placed these busts between, Gives satire nil its strength : Wisdom 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,... | |
 | 1888 - 104 דפים
...busts of Sir Isaac Newton and Pope " This picture placed the busts between Adds to our thought much strength — Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly at full length." " An original something, fair maid, you would win me To write, but how shall I begin ? I fear there... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1889 - 554 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,... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1890 - 450 דפים
...placed in the Pump Room at Bath between the busts of Newton and Pope : — " This picture placed the busts between Gives satire all its strength ; Wisdom...and Wit are little seen, But Folly at full length." Or, once more, to quote a less known instance, some lines which he wrote to a young lady who wore an... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1890 - 452 דפים
...between thé busts of Newton and Pope : — " This picture placed thé busts between Gives satire ail its strength ; Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly at full length." Or, once more, to quote a less known instance, some lines which he wrote to a young lady who wore an... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton - 1890 - 332 דפים
...Chesterfield some well-known lines : — 'This statue placed the busia be: ween Adds to the satire strength ; Wisdom and Wit are little seen. But Folly at full length.' * A full-length statue of Nash was placed between busts of Newton and Pope. 144 A Generous Act. Meanwhile... | |
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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. 
