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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. "
The New London Jest Book - Stran 130
uredili: - 1871 - 374 strani
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Anthologia: A Collection of Epigrams, Ludicrous Epitaphs, Sonnets, Tales ...

1807 - 218 strani
...than 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 :...and Wit are little seen, But Folly at full length. AN Irish footman, carrying a basket of game from his master to a friend, waited some time for the customary...
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The Balance, and Columbian Repository, Količina 3

1804 - 450 strani
...than here you'll find, Nor Pope hirmelf 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 Ic-'gtb. EFFECTS OF .SLAVERY. COMMUNICATION. LEKGTH PORTRAIT. A GENTLEMAN who h^ j.ifl been reading...
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The panorama of wit. Exhibiting the choicest epigrams in the English language

Panorama - 1809 - 368 strani
...than here you'll find ; ^*or 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 fulllength. ON SEEING MISS VASSAL (NOW LADY HOLLAND) At a Masquerade, February 37, 1786. IMPERIAL nymph...
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A Selection of English Epigrams: Extracted Principally from the British and ...

1812 - 156 strani
...than 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 ;...and wit are little seen, But folly at full length. XXI. In all thy humours, whether grave or mellow, Thou'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow, Hast...
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The Stranger: A Literary Paper ..., Količina 1

1813 - 458 strani
...Nor Pope himself e'er penn'da joke More cruel to mankind. The Picture plac'd the busts between (Jives satire all its strength, Wisdom and Wit are little seen But Folly at full-length. METEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL, ending 12th January, 181 Printed for JOBS COOK, !w E. 2^ E. Honour.,...
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The Poetical Note-book and Epigrammatic Museum: Containing More Than One ...

George Wentworth - 1824 - 378 strani
...« M / a, nl Mr. Pope in the rooms at Bath. Immortal Newton never spoke More truth than here you'll find ; Nor Pope himself e'er penned a joke More cruel...and wit are little seen, But folly at full length. SIMPLICITY EXEMPLIFIED. When Dr. Percy jirst published his collection of Ancient English Ballads, he...
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Notes of Traveller: During a Tour Through England, France, and Switzerland ...

Jacob Green - 1831 - 296 strani
...Pope, on which occasion Lord Chesterfield wrote the following epigram — This statue placed these busts between, Gives satire all its strength, Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly at fvtt length. The town rises gradually on the high banks of the river Avon, which here bends so as to...
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The Illuminated Magazine, Količina 2

William James Linton - 1844 - 340 strani
...— " Immortal Newton never spoke, More truth than 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 her strength ; Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly at full length." A statue of Beau Nash is...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Količina 82

1845 - 718 strani
...Beau Nash, between the busts if Pope and Newton, in the pump-room at Bath : _„ . . ,,ii , •Ibis picture placed the busts between, Gives satire all...and wit are little seen, But folly at full length.' Perhaps his best bon-mot was that on hearing of the marriage fa man of low family, with the daughter...
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The seasons, ed. with notes by A.T. Thomson

James Thomson - 1847 - 504 strani
...between the busts of Newton and Pope, produced from his lordship this epigram : — This picture plac'd the busts between, Gives satire all its strength ;...and wit are little seen, But folly at full length. After he became irremediably deaf, he used to say, " In spite of my strong hereditary right to deafness,...
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