 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - Wit and humor - 1884 - 472 pages
...e'er penn'da joke More cruel on mankind. " The picture placed the busts between, Gives satire all its strength ; Wisdom and Wit are little seen — But Folly at full length." EPIGRAM OF CLEVELAND. On Scotland. "Had Cain been Scot, God would changed his doom ; have EPIGRAMS... | |
 | James Parton - English poetry - 1884 - 734 pages
...e'er penn'da joke More cruel on mankind. " The picture placed the busts between, Gives satire all its strength ; Wisdom and Wit are little seen — But Folly at full length." ON SCOTLAND. " HAD Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom; Nor forced him wander, but confined... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1885 - 416 pages
...between the busts of Newton and Pope — " This picture, placed these busts between, Gives satire all its strength : Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly at full length." I should like to have seen the Folly. It was a splendid, embroidered, beruffled, snuff-boxed, red-heeled,... | |
 | William Jesse - 1886 - 456 pages
...a joke, More cruel on mankind. Beau Nas^ The picture placed the busts between, Gives Satire all her strength ; Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly at full length. Beau Nash was buried in the Abbey Church at Bath, on the 3rd February, 1761, having lived to the great... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - 914 pages
...between the busts of Newton and Pope t "This picture, placed these busts between, Gives satire nil its strength : Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly at full length." I should like to have seen the Folly. It was a splendid, embroidered, beruffled, snuff-boxed, red-heeled,... | |
 | Epigrams - 1888 - 104 pages
...busts of Sir Isaac Newton and Pope " This picture placed the busts between Adds to our thought much strength — Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly at full length." " An original something, fair maid, you would win me To write, but how shall I begin ? I fear there... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1889 - 554 pages
...between the busts of Newton and Pope : " This picture, placed these busts between, Gives satire all its strength: Wisdom and Wit are little seen. But Folly at full length." I should like to have seen the Folly. It was a splendid, embroidered, beruffled, snuff-boxed, red-heeled,... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Authors, English - 1890 - 450 pages
...between the busts of Newton and Pope : — " This picture placed the busts between Gives satire all its strength ; Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly at full length." Or, once more, to quote a less known instance, some lines which he wrote to a young lady who wore an... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton - Great Britain - 1890 - 332 pages
...Chesterfield some well-known lines : — 'This statue placed the busia be: ween Adds to the satire strength ; Wisdom and Wit are little seen. But Folly at full length.' * A full-length statue of Nash was placed between busts of Newton and Pope. 144 A Generous Act. Meanwhile... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1891 - 400 pages
...the busts of Newton and Pope : — " This picture, placed these busts between, Gives satire all its strength : Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly at full length." I should like to have seen the Folly. It was a splendid, embroidered, beruffled, snuff-boxed, redheeled,... | |
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This picture, placed these busts between, Gives satire all its strength : Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly at full length. 
