 | Joachim Fernau - 1848 - 736 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 pleas'd with their own.) which were written in a spirit of exquisite persiflage at once detected by the lively Mrs. Thrale ;... | |
 | John Forster - Authors, English - 1848 - 734 pages
...giving a rout. His fools have their follies so lost in a erowd Of virtues and feelings, that Folly grows proud ; And coxcombs, alike in their failings alone,...Adopting his portraits, are pleas'd with their own.) which were written in a spirit of exquisite persiflage at once detected by the lively Mrs. Thrale ;... | |
 | John Forster - 1848 - 740 pages
...giving a rout. His foob 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 pleas'd with their own.) which were written in a spirit of exquisite persiflage at once detected by the lively Mrs. Thrale;... | |
 | John Forster - 1848 - 744 pages
...glving a rotU. 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 pleaa'd with their own.) which were written in a spirit of exquisite persiflage at once detected by... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 162 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 - 1851 - 160 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 - Irish literature - 1851 - 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 768 pages
...malady caught, Or, wherefore his oharactersrfhus without fault? Say, was it that, vainly direciing his view To find out men's virtues, and finding them few, Quite sick of pursuing each irouhlosome elf, He grew lazy at last and drew fmm himself? diad." Here also,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 524 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,... | |
 | John Forster - 1854 - 578 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,... | |
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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... 
