 Nash represents man in the mass, Made up of wrong and right; Sometimes a knave, sometimes an ass, Now blunt and now polite. "The picture plac'd the busts between. Adds to the thought much strength Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly's at full length.  Notes and Queries - Page 711879Full view - About this book
 | Robert Southey - 1807 - 512 pages
...wrong and right ; Sometimes a knave, sometimes an ass, Now blunt, and now polite. The picture, placed the busts between, Adds to the thought much strength, Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly's at full length. To Philotimus. PHILOTIMUS, if you'd approve Yourself a faithful lover, You... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...wrong and right ; Sometimes a king, sometimes an ass, Now blunt, and now polite. The picture placed the busts between, Adds to the thought much strength : Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly's at full length. The following Lines were handed up to a lieau* tiful young Lady who was attending... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 482 pages
...mass, Made up of wrong and right ; Sometimes a knave, sometimes an ass, Now blunt, and now polite. The picture plac'd the busts between Adds to the thought...much strength ; Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly's at full length. OLIVER GOLDSMITH. BORN 1728. PIED 1774. OLI viui GOLDSMITH was born at a place... | |
 | Alexander Dyce - 1825 - 472 pages
...mass, Made up of wrong and right ; Sometimes a knave, sometimes an ass, Now blunt, and now polite. The picture, plac'd the busts between, Adds to the...much strength, Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly's at full length. MARY CHANDLER, Born 1687, died 1745, The daughter of a dissenting minister... | |
 | John Britton - 1825 - 276 pages
...and right ; Sometimes a knave, sometimes an ass, Now blunt, and now polite. — The Picture placed the Busts between Adds to the thought much strength ; Wisdom and Wit are little seen, promptly undertook to raise a subscription for them, and contributing ten guineas, was so successful... | |
 | 1828 - 482 pages
...has been separated in ordinary, and with some difference in the reading. The stanza is as follows : " The picture, plac'd the busts between, Adds to the...much strength ; Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly's at full length." The poetry of Mary Chandler, " daughter of a dissenting minister at Bath,"... | |
 | 1828 - 454 pages
...been separated in ordinary, and with some difference in the reading. The stanza is as follows : ' " The picture, plac'd the busts between, ,. . ... Adds to the thought much strength j . ...,. fFisdom anil Jf^it are little seen, But Folly's at full length," 19, The poetry of Mary Chandler,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 536 pages
...mass, Made up of wrong and right; Sometimes a knave, sometimes an ass, Now blunt, and now polite. " The picture plac'd the busts between. Adds to the...strength; Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly at full length." Campbelfs British Poets, vol. vi. p. 260.] low enough to flatter a man who himself... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1837 - 702 pages
...closing stanza of this brilliant gem : — ' The statue, placed the busts between, Adds to the satire strength ; Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly 's at full length." Poor Nash's brains were half-turned by such brilliant prosperity. He had his levees, where he affected... | |
 | John Alonzo Clark - 1840 - 476 pages
...wrong and right ; Sometimes a knave, sometimes an ass, Now blunt, and now polite. " The statue placed the busts between, Adds to the thought much strength : Wisdom and wit are little seen, But folly at full length !" • Nash seems to have been a vain, giddy, reckless character, who acquired his money... | |
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