| James Parton - 1857 - 706 pagine
...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." ON SCOTLAND. CLEVELAND. " HAD Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom; Nor forced him wander,... | |
| Abraham Hayward - 1859 - 476 pagine
...Beau Nash, between the busts of Pope and Newton, in the pumproom at Bath. " This picture placed the busts between, Gives satire all its strength ; Wisdom...and Wit are little seen, But Folly at full length." Perhaps his best bon-mot was on hearing of the marriage of a man of low family with the daughter of... | |
| Abraham Hayward - 1858 - 494 pagine
...Beau Nash, between the busts of Pope and Newton, in the pumproom at Bath. " This picture placed the busts between, Gives satire all its strength; Wisdom...and Wit are little seen, But Folly at full length." Perhaps his best bon-mot was on hearing of the marriage of a man of low family with the daughter of... | |
| Abraham Hayward - 1858 - 470 pagine
...Beau Nash, between the busts of Pope and Newton, in the pumproom at Bath. " This picture placed the busts between, Gives satire all its strength ; Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Polly at full length." Perhaps his best bon-mot was on hearing of the marriage of a man of low family... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1860 - 266 pagine
...scarce a character ono can mention of the early last century but was seen in that famous Pump-room where Beau Nash presided, and his picture hung between...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 - 1860 - 858 pagine
...character one can mention of the early last century, but was seen in that famous Pump-room where Beau Kash presided, and his picture hung between the busts of...between, Gives satire all its strength: Wisdom and Wit arc little seen, But Folly at full length." I should like to have seen the Folly. It was a splendid,... | |
| 1860 - 1002 pagine
...scarce a character one can mention in the early last century, but was seen in that famous Pump-room where Beau Nash presided, and his picture hung between...the busts of Newton and Pope : "This picture, placed thcpe busts between, Gives satire nil ite strength; Wisdom end Wit are little seen, But Folly at full... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1860 - 858 pagine
...scarce a character one can mention of the early last century, but was seen in that famous Pump-room where Beau Nash presided, and his picture hung between the busts of Newton and Pope : " This pichiró, placed these busts between, Gives satire all its strength: Wisdom and Wit are little seen,... | |
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