 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - 1884 - 472 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." EPIGRAM OF CLEVELAND. On Scotland. "Had Cain been Scot, God would changed his doom ; have EPIGRAMS... | |
 | James Parton - 1884 - 734 pagine
...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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1885 - 416 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...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 - 1886 - 876 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...Pope : " This picture, placed these busts between, I should like to have seen the Folly. It was a splendid, embroidered, beruffied, snuff-boxed, red-heeled,... | |
 | William Jesse - 1886 - 456 pagine
...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 pagine
...scarce a character one can mention of the carly 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 t "This picture, placed these busts between, Gives satire nil its strength : Wisdom and Wit are little... | |
 | 1888 - 104 pagine
...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 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...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,... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - 1889 - 406 pagine
...break them when she's kind. John O'ulmixon. CXLI L ON BEAU NASH'S PICTURE AT BATH, WHICH ONCE STOOD BETWEEN THE BUSTS OF NEWTON AND POPE. THIS picture placed these busts between, Gives satire its full strength; Wisdom and wit are seldom seen, But folly at full length. Mrs. Jane Brcrcton. CXLI... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1890 - 450 pagine
...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... | |
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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. 
