 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 314 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 ? Say, was it that vainly directing his view To find out men's virtues,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 pages
...given 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... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1822 - 428 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 ? Say, was it that vainly directing his view To find out men's virtues,... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 290 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Bible - 1822 - 194 pages
...people. E3 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...giving a rout. His fools have their follies so lost in a crowd Of virtues and feelings, that folly grows eep From her cabin'd loophole peep, And to the tell-tale...beat the ground In a light fantastic round. The M characters thus without fault? Say, was it that vainly directing his view To find out men's virtues,... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...have their foliies.so lost in a crowd Of virtues and feelings, that Folly grows proud ; And coicombs, alike in their failings alone, Adopting his portraits,...with their own. Say, where has our poet this malady caugbt ,J Or wherefore his characters thus without fault ! Ray, was it that, vainly directing his view... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - English drama - 1824 - 492 pages
...malady caught ? Or wherefore his characters, thus without fault? Say, was it, that vainly directing his view, To find out men's virtues, and finding them few, Quite sick of pursuing each troublesome elf, He grew lazy at last, and drew from himself? A ! DRAMATIS PERSONS.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...have their follies so lost in a erowd Of virtues and feelings, that folly grows proud, And eoxeombs ev eaught ! Or, wherefore his eharaeters thus without fault ? Say, was it that vainly direeting his view... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1825 - 476 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... | |
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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... 
