 | Robert Southey - 1807 - 512 pages
...wrong and right ; Sometimes a knave, sometimes an ass, Now blunt, and now polite. The picture, placed the busts between, Adds to the thought much strength,...and Wit are little seen, But Folly's at full length. To Philotimus. PHILOTIMUS, if you'd approve Yourself a faithful lover, You must no more my anger move,... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...wrong and right ; Sometimes a king, sometimes an ass, Now blunt, and now polite. The picture placed the busts between, Adds to the thought much strength...and Wit are little seen, But Folly's at full length. The following Lines were handed up to a lieau* tiful young Lady who was attending the Trial of Criminals... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 482 pages
...wrong and right ; Sometimes a knave, sometimes an ass, Now blunt, and now polite. The picture plac'd the busts between Adds to the thought much strength...and Wit are little seen, But Folly's at full length. OLIVER GOLDSMITH. BORN 1728. PIED 1774. OLI viui GOLDSMITH was born at a place called Pallas, in the... | |
 | John Britton - 1825 - 276 pages
...and right ; Sometimes a knave, sometimes an ass, Now blunt, and now polite. — The Picture placed the Busts between Adds to the thought much strength ; Wisdom and Wit are little seen, promptly undertook to raise a subscription for them, and contributing ten guineas, was so successful... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1828 - 460 pages
...ordinary, and with some difference in the reading. The stanza is as follows : " The picture, plac'd the busts between, Adds to the thought much strength;...Wit are little seen, But Folly's at full length." The poetry of Mary Chandler, " daughter of a dissenting minister at Bath," was commended, Mrs Dyce... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1837 - 530 pages
...and right : Somettme* a knave, sometimes an ass. Now blunt, and now polite. •' The picture plac'd the busts between, Adds to the thought much strength ; Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly at full length.' Brttiih Foeti, vol. vi. p. 2JO.] low enough to flatter a man who himself lived... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 536 pages
...wrong and right; Sometimes a knave, sometimes an ass, Now blunt, and now polite. " The picture plac'd the busts between. Adds to the thought much strength; Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly at full length." Campbelfs British Poets, vol. vi. p. 260.] low enough to flatter a man who himself... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1837 - 690 pages
...best to protect her memory from insult. ' The statue, placed the busts between, Adds to ttie satire strength ; Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly's at full length." Poor Nash's brains were half-turned by such brilliant prosperity. He had his levees, where he affected... | |
 | John Alonzo Clark - 1840 - 476 pages
...wrong and right ; Sometimes a knave, sometimes an ass, Now blunt, and now polite. " The statue placed the busts between, Adds to the thought much strength : Wisdom and wit are little seen, But folly at full length !" • Nash seems to have been a vain, giddy, reckless character, who acquired... | |
 | John Alonzo Clark - 1840 - 588 pages
...wrong and right ; Sometimes a knave, sometimes an ass, Now blunt, and now polite. " The statue placed the busts between, Adds to the thought much strength : Wisdom and wit are little seen, But folly at full length !" Nash seems to have been a vain, giddy, reckless character, who acquired his... | |
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The picture placed the busts between, Adds to the thought much strength ; Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly's at full length. 
