 | William Estabrook Chancellor - 1908 - 314 strani
...the grave of the poet who has starved to death." " 'Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery is the food of fools ; Yet, now and then, your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit." "Self-defense is nature's first law." " Wert thou more fickle than the restless... | |
 | William Estabrook Chancellor - 1908 - 322 strani
...the grave of the poet who has starved to death." " 'Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery is the food of fools ; Yet, now and then, your men of wit con de scend' Will condescend to take a bit." de fense' " Self-defense is nature's first law." wert... | |
 | Lady Elizabeth Douglas Fuller-Eliott-Drake - 1911 - 462 strani
...Your very true hearted friend and Servant FFRANCIS DRAKE. ' Flattery,' says a shrewd observer, ' is the food of Fools, yet now and then your Men of Wit will condescend to take a bit ' ; and so it was with poor Mr. Savery : his indignation abated. HONOURED... | |
 | Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - 1911 - 784 strani
...self-conceit. 1712 Gay: Fables. Pt. i. Fable 18. 'Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery's the food of fools ; Yet, now and then, your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit. 1713 Swift : Cadenus and Vanessa. Line 755 Of folly, vice, disease, men proud... | |
 | William Estabrook Chancellor - 1911 - 104 strani
...the grave of the poet who has starved to death." " 'Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery is the food of fools ; Yet, now and then, your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit." "Self-defense is nature's first law." " Wert thou more fickle than the restless... | |
 | Hanford Lennox Gordon - 1913 - 460 strani
...neighbor, spreadeth a net for his feet. — Solomon. 'Tis an old maxim of the schools, That flattery is the food of fools ; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit. — Dean Swift. Face-flatterer and back-biter are the same. — Tennyson.... | |
 | Andrew Wheatley Edson, Mary Elizabeth Laing - 1913 - 272 strani
...chestnuts and eat them. Beware of a flatterer. MSOP. 'Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit. DEAN SWIFT. But flattery never seems absurd; The flattered always takes your... | |
 | 1913 - 264 strani
...shun it, but to make it sure. Young: Love of Fame. 'Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery's the food of fools; Yet, now and then, your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit. Swift: Cadenus and Vanessa. Minds, By nature great, are conscious of their... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1914 - 664 strani
...TERENT. in Eunuch. Act II, Sc. 2, v. 12, ... 20, 21. It lias been held in ancient rules, That flattery is the food of fools ; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to taste a bit. SWIFT, Cadenus and Vanessa, 1. 758. The Subject — Poverty and Cunning... | |
 | William A. Murrill - 1919 - 300 strani
...To counsel deaf, but not to flattery! Shakespeare 'Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit. Swift Percunctatorem fugito, nam garrulus idem est. Horace Satis eloquentiae,... | |
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Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit. 
