 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 584 páginas
...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...'Till his relish grown callous, almost to disease, Who peppered the highest was surest to please. But let us be candid, and speak out our mind, If dunces... | |
 | Jeremiah Whitaker Newman - 1838 - 404 páginas
...pack, For he knew when he pleased he could whistle them hack. Of praise a mere glutton, lie swallow'd what came, And the puff of a dunce, he mistook it...disease, Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please. On another member of the club, the satirist, like his subject, was pleasant; this was Mr. Hickey a... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 360 páginas
...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...callous, almost to disease, Who pepper'd the highest was sorest to please. But let us be candid and speak out oor mind; If dunces applauded, he paid them in... | |
 | John Todd - 1839 - 116 páginas
...no reproach. It is the character ascribed to Garrick by Goldsmith, against which I am warning you. "Of praise a mere glutton, he swallowed what came, And the puff of a dunce, he mistook it for feme ; Till his relish grown callous almost to disease, Who peppered the highest was surest to please.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 550 páginas
...down the fint poetof all antiquity. Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the pufTof c come in for a share. As these offer the feeble mind a lese laborious entertainment, pepperM the highest, was surest to please. But let us he candid, and sjieak out our mind, If dunces... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 páginas
...finessing and trick ; He 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,...•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... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Peake - 1841 - 442 páginas
...Retaliation, observes, he was — 410 THE DUCHESS OF KINGSTON ' In praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff of a dunce, he mistook it for fame.' and after gorging upon the applause of thundering audiences, and judicious crities, his unsatiated... | |
 | 1842 - 452 páginas
...marked this feature in Garrick's character in these lines — " Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff of a dunce he mistook it for fame ; Till his relish growu callous, almost to disease, Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please." This propensity also... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 páginas
...when he pleased, he could whistle then back. Of praise a mere glutton, he swallowed what саше ; relations. Mrs Piozzi died at Clifton in 1822. T!ie Three Wamiiwß. peppered the highest was surest to please. But let ив be candid, and speak out our mind; If dunces... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 páginas
...finessing and trick : He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew, when he pleased, wain more engaging than me. Ah ! love every hope can inspire ; It banishes wisdom the ] ! 1 1 1 1 of a dunce he mistook it for fame ; Till his relish grown callous almost to disease, Who... | |
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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,... 
