 | Iolo Aneurin Williams - 1923 - 528 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. 'This poem has also been attributed, almost certainly erroneously, to Jane Brereton. ELIZABETH TOLLET... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1925 - 1118 pages
...flanked to right and to left by the busts of Newton and Pope, he exclaimed, — The picture placed the busts between Adds to the thought much strength : Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly's at lull length. This suggests one of the best-known mots of William R. Travers. In the palmy days of the... | |
 | 1879 - 652 pages
...and that in Mrs. Brereton's Poems. In the Litter place the exact words are : — " The Picture placed the Busts between Adds to the Thought much Strength ; Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly 's at full Length." ERNEST C. THOMAS. " On ifr. Nath's Picture at full Length, between the Suttt... | |
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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. 
