 | 1778 - 264 pages
...critic on the paft ? Thofe \vhofe date is the fhortelV live long enough to laugh at one half of it. The boy defpifes the infant, the man the boy, the philofopher both, and the Chriftiaa all. You may now begin to think your manhood .was too much a puerility ; and you will never... | |
 | Francis Atterbury - 1783 - 416 pages
...critique on the paft ? Thofe whofe date is the fhorteft, live long enough to laugh at one half of it : the boy defpifes the infant, the man the boy, the...think your manhood was too much a puerility ; and you will never fuffer your age to be but a (econd infancy. The toys and baubles of your childhood are... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1788 - 396 pages
...date . is the morteft, live long enough to laugh at one half of it : The boy deipifes the infant, thp man the boy, the philofopher both, and the Chriftian all. You may now begin. to think your manhood waj too much a puerility ; and you'll never fuffer your age to be but a fecond infancy. The toys and... | |
 | 1789 - 276 pages
...critic on the paft ? Thofe whofe date is the fhorteft, live long etiough to laugh at one half of it. The boy defpifes the infant, the man the boy, the...may now begin to think your manhood was too much a puerillity ; and you will never fuffer your age to be but a fecond infancy. The toys and baubles of... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1789 - 298 pages
...critic on the paf t ? Thofe, whofe date is the fhorteft, live long enough to laugh at one half of it : the boy defpifes the infant, the man the boy, the philofopher both, and the Chriftian all. You may row begin to think your manhood was too much a puerility : and you will neter fuffer your age to be... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1790 - 912 pages
...critic on the pad ? Thole whofc date is the (horted, Jive long enough to laugh at one half of it : the boy defpifes the infant, the man the boy, the philofopher both, and the Chridian all. You may now begin to think your manhood was too much a puerility; and you will never... | |
 | William Creech - 1791 - 346 pages
...on hearing a modern author fay, " Every year of a wife man's life fhould be a cenfure on the paft.'' The boy defpifes the infant, the man the boy, the philofopher both, and the CHRISTIAN all. They wifh indeed to have life tcr begin anew; for, as fons, hufbands, fathers, men,... | |
 | Jasper Adams, John Adams - 1793 - 358 pages
...being a gradation or amplification by fteps, till the argument and period be beautifully finifhed. " The boy defpifes the infant, the man the boy, the philofopher both, and the Chriftian all." The anticlimax has a very difagreeable efFe£r., as appears from the two following fpecimens. " Not... | |
 | Thomas Mortimer - 1808 - 496 pages
...half of it: the boy despises the in. fant, the man the boy, the philosopher both, and the Christian all. You may now begin to think your manhood was too much a puerility ; and you will never suffer your age to be but a second inFancy. The toys and bauble of your childhood are... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 394 pages
...half of it : the boy despises the infant, the man the boy, the philosopher both, and the Christian all. You may now begin to think your manhood was too much a puerility ; and you'll never suffer your age to be but a second infancy. The toys and baubles*of your childhood are hardly now more... | |
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Christian all. You may now begin to think your manhood was too much a puerility ; and you will never suffer your age to be but a second infancy. 
