 | Edward Bysshe - 1710 - 620 pagine
...Comely in thoufand Shapes appears. "Tis not a Tale, 'tis not a Jeft, Admir'd with Laughter at a Feaft, Nor florid Talk, which can this Title gain, The Proofs of Wit for ever muft remain. 'Tis not to force fome lifdefs Verfes meet, With their five gouty Feet; All ev'ry where,... | |
 | Charles Gildon - 1718 - 490 pagine
...Come'y in thoufand Shapes appears. Tis nor a Tnle, 'tis not a Jett, Admir'd with Lautjhter at a Feaft, Nor florid Talk, which can this Title gain ; The Proofs of Wit for ever muft remain. 'Tis not to fores fome lifelefsVerfes. meet, With their five gouty Feet ; All ev'ry where,... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1806 - 294 pagine
...Wits by our creation they become, Just so as titular bishops made at Rome. 'T is not a tale, 't is not a jest Admir'd with laughter at a feast, Nor florid talk, which can that title gain ; The proofs of Wit for ever must remain. 'T is not to force some lifeless verses meet... | |
 | 1809 - 344 pagine
...definition of this quality, bv one who had as large a portion of it, as most individuals could ever boast: "Tis not a tale, 'tis not a jest, Admir'd with laughter at a feast, Nor florid talk, which can that title gain ; The proofs of wit for ever must remain. Neither can that have any place, At which... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1809 - 296 pagine
...Wits by our creation they become, Just so as titular bishops made at Rome. 'T is not a tale, 't is not a jest Admir'd with laughter at a feast, Nor florid talk, which can that title gain ; The proofs of Wit for ever must remain. T is not to force some lifeless verses meet... | |
 | Hannah More - 1810 - 220 pagine
...definition of this quality, by one who had as large a portion of it, as most individuals could ever boast: Tis not a tale, 'tis not a jest, Admir'd with laughter at a feast, Nor florid talk, which can that title gain, The proofs of wit for ever miut remain. Neither can that liave nuy place, At which... | |
 | Samuel Richardson - 1824 - 806 pagine
...of accent, as would have made bad poetry delightful. A thousand different shapes it bears ; Comely in thousand shapes appears. 'Tis not a tale, 'tis not a jest, Admired with laughter at njcatt, N in- ,,'•'•'"' /.•'/,, which must this tide gain : The proofs... | |
 | Tertius T C. Kendrick - 1825 - 742 pagine
...very different to those under which he suffered. CHAP. II. "'Tis not a tale, 'tis not a jest, Admired with laughter at a feast; Nor florid talk which can...title gain: The proofs of wit for ever must remain. 'Tis not to force some lifeless verses meet, With their five gouty feet!" COWLEY. WHAT Alexis had mentioned... | |
 | Flowers - 1829 - 340 pagine
...Dryden's desciiption of wit is excellent. — He says, " A thousand different shapes wit wears, Comely in thousand shapes appears , 'Tis not a tale, 'tis...gain, — The proofs of wit for ever must remain." INDEX. Abernethy l96,26l Absence of Mind 43, 58 Abstraction l35 Accommodation 27l Acme of Compliment... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 358 pagine
...credit; let us try whether fraud or avarice may be more easily restrained from giving it.—Johnson. MC. 'Tis not a tale, 'tis not a jest, Admir'd with laughter at a feast. Nor florid talk, which can that title gain, The proofs of wit, for ever must remain. Cowky. MCI. Though every old man has been... | |
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tis not a jest Admir'd with laughter at a feast, Nor florid talk which can that title gain; The proofs of wit for ever must remain. 
