 | John Quincy Adams - 1810 - 466 pàgines
...species. This is rather abstruse ; but perhaps the following little epigram of Prior will make it plainer. Yes, every poet is a fool, By demonstration Ned can show it ; Happy, could Ned's inverted rule Prove every fool to be a poet. Here fool is the genus, and poet the species... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 582 pàgines
...John unhappily thought fit To publish it to all the nation : {Sure John and I are more than quit. Yu, every poet is a fool. By demonstration Ned can show it, Happy, could Ned's inverted rule Prove every foul to be a poet. TBT nag*, the leanest things alive ' So very... | |
 | John Quincy Adams - 1810 - 446 pàgines
...species. This is rather abstruse ; but perhaps the following little epigram of Prior will make it plainer. every poet is a fool, By demonstration Ned can show it ; Happy, could Ned's inverted rule Prove every fool to be a poet. Here fool is the genus, and poet the species... | |
 | 1812 - 156 pàgines
...whose power can soften all, But that dear breast on which they fall. ccxxxcx. Reverse the Proposition. Yes ! every poet is a fool : By demonstration Ned can show it : Happy could Ned's inverted rule Prove every fool to be a poet. CCXL. Jack his own merit sees. This gives... | |
 | 1821 - 818 pàgines
...him among the successful poets of the present day. 173 ON VULGAB PREJUDICES AGAINST LITERATURE. Yea, every poet is a fool ; By demonstration, Ned can show it : Happy, could Ned's inverted rule Prove every fool to be a poet. PBIOB. THERE is nothing more to be lamented,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1824 - 598 pàgines
...jester's place." Perhaps It may be urged that the Laureate is retained to perform both functions, a surmise to which I should be happy to add the weight...cumbersome, puerile, costly and preposterous mummery of justs and tournaments in the court of the Tuileries, of the gorgeous absurdity of which no one can... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1824 - 598 pàgines
...the weight of my authority, but that I stand in awe of the retort fulminated against Ned :—- " Ye>, every poet is a fool, By demonstration Ned can show...cumbersome, puerile, costly and preposterous mummery of justs and tournaments in the court of the Tuileries, of the gorgeous absurdity of which no one can... | |
 | 1824 - 624 pàgines
...awe of the retort fulminated against Ned: — " Yes, every poet is a fool, By demonstration Ned ran show it ; Happy, if Ned's inverted rule Prove every fool to be a poet." Tuileries, of the gorgeous absurdity of which no one can form a perfect idea who has not seen the paintings... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1825 - 436 pàgines
...grown such stately solemn things, To laugh at monarchs to their face, All mankind do behind theiv hacks Supply the honest jester's place." Perhaps it may...a fool— By demonstration Ned can show it; Happy, if.Ned's inverted rule Prove every fool to be a poet." M Whatever may have been the motive, certain... | |
 | Joe Miller - 1836 - 266 pàgines
...break, And my cruel unkindness compels him to speak : For of late I invite him— but four times a week. Yes, every poet is a fool : By demonstration Ned can show it : Happy, could Ned's inverted rule Prove every fool to be a poet. Rhymes given by Miss and filled up by the... | |
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Yes, every poet is a fool; By demonstration Ned can show it; Happy could Ned's inverted rule Prove every fool to be a poet. 
