 | 1802 - 572 pàgines
...the Lyric Poet, Maupertitis, Vtrnett the Marquis Mnffei, Jean Jacques Rwisaau, and Bishop Warburtw. There are also others of inferior note, whom it surprizes...please." The censure and opposition of such men as Desfontsints and Freron gave him pain, and he persecuted them with unremitting virulence and malignity.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1800 - 192 pàgines
...pack, For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back. Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff of a dunce he mistook it for...relish grown callous, almost to disease, Who pepper'd tlie highest was surest to please. But let us be candid, and speak out our mind, If dunces applauded,... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1802 - 572 pàgines
...of praise was excessive, and he was not always attentive to the quarter from which it proceeded : f Of praise a mere glutton, he swallowed what came,...please." The censure and opposition of such men as Dtsfontaines and Frtron gave him pain, and he persecuted them with unremitting virulence and malignity.... | |
 | Richard Warner - 1802 - 332 pàgines
...cast off his friends, as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when hepleas'd he could whistle them back. Of praise a mere glutton, he swallowed what came,...disease, Who pepper'd the highest, was surest to please. But let us be candid, and speak out our mind, If dunces applauded, he paid them in kind." The most... | |
 | Richard Warner - 1803 - 702 pàgines
...umf>er ifc ((йф, anb ber ^oben fanbig. SDiefe 3frt von Sanb fanben And the puff of a dunce he mistook for fame ; Till his relish grown callous, almost to...disease. Who pepper'd the highest, was surest to please. Bat let us be candid, and speak out our mind, If dunces applauded , be paid them in kind. wir nuf bera... | |
 | John Aikin - 1803 - 646 pàgines
...this feature in his portrait. — Of praise a mere glutton, he swallowed what cume, And the puff ot a dunce, he mistook it for fame ; Till his relish grown callous, almost la disease, Who pcjjper'd the highest, was. surest to please. Retaliation. This propensity also rendered... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 pàgines
...pack, For heknew when hepleas'dhe could whistle them back. Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow 'd what came, And the puff of a dunce, he mistook it for fame ; * Vide page 74 Till his relish grown callous, almost to disease, Who pepper'd the highest was surest... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1805 - 264 pàgines
...pack, For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back. Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff of a dunce he mistook it for...disease, Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please. But let us be candid, and speak out our mind, If dunces applauded, he paid them in kind. H2 YeKenricks,... | |
 | Select collection - 1806 - 262 pàgines
...cast off his friends, as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back. Of praise a mere glutton, he swallowed what came,...'Till his relish grown callous, almost to disease, Who pepper' d the highest, was surest to please. But let us be candid, and speak out our mind, If dunces... | |
 | Jane West - 1806 - 480 pàgines
...Muse records this foible of one of her favourite sons * : " Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, " And the puff of a dunce he mistook it..." Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please." .• Garrick. See Goldsmith's poem'of Retaliation, D 4 It still sometimes happens, that a young woman,... | |
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Though secure of our hearts, yet confoundedly sick If they were not his own by finessing and trick: He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleased he could whistle them back. Of praise a mere glutton, he swallowed what came,... 
