 | Oliver Goldsmith - Bookbinding - 1864 - 182 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 - 1864 - 436 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... | |
 | James Beattie, Oliver Goldsmith - Gift books - 1864 - 540 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. RETALU.TION. ' Say, where has our poet this malady caught, Or, wherefore his... | |
 | 1865 - 342 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,... | |
 | Old favourites, Matilda Sharpe - 1881 - 438 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... | |
 | Francis Hitchman - English literature - 1881 - 404 pages
...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... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American poetry - 1882 - 1002 pages
...giving a ront. His fools have their follies so lost in a crowd Of virtues and feelings, that folly grows he others rise : Still the prospect wider spreads, Adds a thousand woods and mea pleased with their own. Say, where has our poet this malady caught * Or wherefore his characters thus... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1885 - 494 pages
...folly grows proud ; 70 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 75 To find out men's virtues,... | |
 | Richard Brinsley B. Sheridan - 1884 - 320 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 - 1884 - 784 pages
...giving a rout. His fools have their follies so lost in a crowd Of virtues and feelings, that folly grows new happiness even by courting distress. I only, therefore, wait the n" him wel 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... 
