 | John Wesley Hales - 1872 - 552 pages
...With ev'ry wild absurdity comply, And view each object with another's eye; To shake with laughter ere the jest they hear, To pour at will the counterfeited...tear, And as their patron hints the cold or heat, 140 To shake in dog days, in December sweat. How, when competitors like these contend, Can surly virtue... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1872 - 524 pages
...With every wild absurdity comply, And view each object with another's eye ; To shake with laughter ere the jest they hear, To pour at will the counterfeited tear ; And as their patron hints the cold or beat, To shake in dog-days, in December sweat. How, when competitors like these contend, Can surly... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1873 - 782 pages
...every wild absurdity comply, And view each object with another's eye : To shake with laughter, ere ll, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd Ami lie without a blush, without a smile ; Exalt each trifle, every vice adore, Your tasto in snuff,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 602 pages
...by Spain ? Quick let us rise, the happy seats explore, And bear Oppression's insolence no more." " How, when competitors like these contend, Can surly Virtue hope to fix a friend ? " " This mournful truth is every where confess'd, SLOW RISES WORTH, BY POVERTY DEPRESS'D 1 " We may... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 pages
...Answer me this, ere yet my heart does break. GRANVILLE. dame. FLATTERY. To shake with laughter ere the jest they hear, To pour at will the counterfeited tear ; And as her patron hints the cold or heat, To shake in dog-days, in December sweat. DR. JOHNSON: London. I... | |
 | William Robertson (of Rochdale.) - 1877 - 568 pages
...sycophants was possibly in the recollection of Mr. Bright at the moment : — " To shake with laughter ere the jest they hear, To pour at will the counterfeited...or heat, To shake in dog-days, in December sweat." However, Mr. Bright " had not the House with him, for that of course was impossible, but he had the... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 pages
...Answer me this, ere yet my heart does break. GRANVILI.E. dame. FLATTERY. To shake with laughter ere the jest they hear, To pour at will the counterfeited tear ; And as her patron hints the cold or heat, To shake in dog-days, in December sweat. DR. JOHNSON : London. I... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1881 - 738 pages
...darling vices, And rob their master of his subject's love. Brooke, Earl of W. To shake with laughter, ere the jest they hear, To pour, at will, the counterfeited...or heat, 'To shake in dog-days, in December sweat. Dr. Johnson, Land. Unhappy lot of all that shine at courts ; Tor fore'd compliance, or for zealous... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1883 - 782 pages
...their falsehood each despising each. 864 Thomson: Liberty. Pt. v. Line 190. To shake with laughter, ere the jest they hear, To pour, at will, the counterfeited...or heat, To shake in dog-days, in December sweat. 865 Dr. Johnson: London. Line 130 A mere court butterfly, That flutters In the pageant of a monarch.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1888 - 608 pages
...by Spain ? Quick let us rise, the happy seats explore, And bear Oppression's insolence no more." " How, when competitors like these contend, Can surly Virtue hope to fix a friend ? " " This mournful truth is every where confess'd, SLOW RISES WORTH, BY POVERTY DEPRESS'D ! " We may... | |
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With every wild absurdity comply, And view each object with another's eye ; To shake with laughter ere the jest they hear, To pour at will the counterfeited tear ; And, as their patron hints the cold or heat, To shake in dogdays, in December sweat. How,... 
