 | William Macneile Dixon - English poetry - 1911 - 792 pages
...His fools have their follies so lost in a crowd Of virtues and feelings, that folly grows proud ; 70 And coxcombs, alike in their failings alone, Adopting...their own. Say, where has our poet this malady caught 1 Or, wherefore his characters thus without fault ? Say, was it that vainly directing his view To find... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon, Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson - English poetry - 1911 - 792 pages
...grows proud ; 70 And coxcombs, alike in their failings alone, Adopting his portraits, are pleas' d with their own. Say, where has our poet this malady caught ? Or, wherefore his characters thus without fault ? Say, was it that vainly directing his view To find out men's virtues,... | |
 | Ernest Bernbaum - Domestic tragedies (Drama), English - 1915 - 310 pages
...giving a rout. His fools have their follies so lost in a crowd Of virtues and feelings that folly grows proud ; And coxcombs, alike in their failings alone, Adopting his portraits are pleased with their own. How astonished Goldsmith would have been, could he have lived to learn that... | |
 | Jewish Historical Society of England - Great Britain - 1915 - 682 pages
...giving a rout. His fools have their follies so lost in a crowd Of virtues and feelings, that folly grows proud, And coxcombs, alike in their failings alone, Adopting his portraits are pleased with their own ; Say, where has our poet this malady caught ? Or, wherefore his characters... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1916 - 828 pages
...folly grows proud; 70 And coxcombs, alike in their failings alone, Adopting his portraits, arc pleased ake thy thirst: 186 So, take and use thy work: Amend what flaws may lurk, Wha characters thus without fault? Say, was it, that vainly directing his view To find out men's virtues,... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1916 - 806 pages
...folly grows proud ; 70 And coxcombs, alike in their failings alone, Adopting his portraits, are pleased he whole world, the future as well as the present, would inevitably belong t characters thus without fault? Say, was it, that vainly directing his view To find out men's virtues,... | |
 | Ernest Bernbaum - English poetry - 1918 - 412 pages
...so lost in a crowd And coxcombs, alike in their failings alone, Adopting his portraits, are pleased with their own. Say, where has our poet this malady caught, Or wherefore his characters thus without fault? Say, was it that, vainly directing his view To find out men's virtues,... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - Authors, English - 1918 - 186 pages
...having a rout. His fools have their follies so lost in a crowd Of virtues and feelings, that folly grows proud ; And coxcombs, alike in their failings alone, Adopting his portraits, are pleased with their own. Say, where has our poet this malady caught ? Or wherefore his characters thus... | |
 | Ernest Bernbaum - English poetry - 1918 - 422 pages
...giving a rout; His fools have their follies so lost in a crowd Of virtues and feelings that folly grows proud; And coxcombs, alike in their failings alone, Adopting his portraits, are pleased with their own. Say, where has our poet this malady caught, Or wherefore his characters thus... | |
 | English philology - 1919 - 690 pages
...giving a rout. His fools have their follies so lost in a crowd Of virtues and feelings, that folly grows proud; And coxcombs, alike in their failings alone,...has our poet this malady caught? Or, wherefore his characters thus without fault? « The New Foundling Hospital for Wit (London, 1784), I, 96; Bath; Its... | |
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And coxcombs, alike in their failings alone, Adopting his portraits, are pleas'd with their own. Say, where has our poet this malady caught ? Or wherefore his characters thus without fault ? Say, was it that vainly directing his view To find out men's... 
