 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1860 - 858 pages
...between the busts of Newton and Pope : " This pichiró, 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 Makepeace Thackeray - Great Britain - 1862 - 264 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, redheeled,... | |
 | John Earle - Bath (England) - 1864 - 372 pages
...e'er pen'da joke Severer on mankind. This picture placed these busts between, Gives satire its full strength ; Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly at full length. ''Nash used sometimes to visit the great Doctor Clarke. The Doctor was one day conversing with Locke,... | |
 | Samuel Curwen - American Confederate voluntary exiles - 1864 - 720 pages
...e'er penned a joke Severer on mankind : The picture placed the busts between, Adds to the satire's strength ; Wisdom and wit are little seen, But folly at full length." TO NATHAN GOODALE, ESQ., SALEM, NE BRISTOL, Jan. 10, 1780. DEAR SIR : I am obliged for the information... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 882 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, be-ruffled, snuff-boxed, red-heeled,... | |
 | John Booth - Epigrams - 1865 - 400 pages
...e'er penn'da joke More cruel on mankind. The picture, placed the busts between, Gives satire its full strength ; Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly at full length. Earl of Chesterfield. ' I find this Epigram for the first time in print in the Gentleman's Magazine... | |
 | Epigrams - 1865 - 398 pages
...e'er penn'da joke More cruel on mankind. The picture, placed the busts between, Gives satire its full strength ; Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly at full length. Ear l of Chesterfield. ' I find this Epigram for the first time in print in the Gentleman's Magazine... | |
 | Mrs. John Farrar - Great Britain - 1866 - 376 pages
...wrote these lines on seeing them: " This picture, placed those busts between, Gives satire all its strength ; Wisdom and wit are little seen, But folly at full length." One family, in the habit of going every year to Bath, failed to meet us there ; and as their detention... | |
 | Mrs. John Farrar - Authors, American - 1866 - 376 pages
...wrote these lines on seeing them: " This picture, placed those busts between, Gives satire all its strength; Wisdom and wit are little seen, But folly at full length." One family, in the habit of going every year to Bath, failed to meet us there; and as their detention... | |
 | Isaac Jack Reeve - 1866 - 332 pages
...e'er penned a 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. EARL OF CHESTERFIELD. ON ERASMUS. ERASMUS, standing 'fore hell's tribune, said, " For writing jest... | |
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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. 
