 Of all mad creatures, if the learn'd are right, It is" the slaver kills, and not the bite. A fool quite angry is quite innocent : Alas ! 'tis ten times worse when they repent. One dedicates in high heroic prose...  The Ordeal - Strana 3191809Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | Owen Ruffhead - 1769 - Počet stránok 600
...hurtful than a flatterer : for, fays he, in a pleafant fimile, alluding to his friend's profeflion. " Of all mad creatures, if the learn'd are right, '*' It is the Slaver kills, and not the Bite." He then proceeds to ridicule the abject and extravagant flattery of thofe fycophants, who complimented... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - Počet stránok 702
...too could write, and 1 am twice as tall; But foes like these— P. One flatterer's worse than all. Of all mad creatures, if the learn'd are right, It Is the slaver kills, and not the bite. A fool quite angry is quite iunocent : Alas ! 'tis ten times worse when they repent. One dedicates... | |
 | Joseph Tinker Buckingham - 1809 - Počet stránok 428
...ground of fair controversy, whenever he can descend from grovelling in the mire. * Of all mad creature), if the learn'd are right, ' It is the slaver kills,...to shew how far it was palpably deficient in that respect. The Ordeal asserted and proved that Great-Britain had some merit in coming to a settlement... | |
 | 1809 - Počet stránok 402
...too could write, and I am twice ae tall; But foes like these — P. One flatt'rcr's worse than all. Of all mad creatures, if the learn'd are right, It is the slaver kills, and not the bite. A fool quite an^ry is quite innocent : Ala ', 'tis ten times worse when they repent. One dedicates... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - Počet stránok 526
...too could write, and I am twice as tall ; But foes like these.— P. One flatterer's worse than all, Of all mad creatures, if the learn'd are right, It is the slaver kills and not the bite. A fool quite angry is quite innocent : Alas ! 'tis ten times worse when they repent. This prints my... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - Počet stránok 536
...too could write, and I am twice as tall ; But fbes like these — P. One flatterer's worse than all. Of all mad creatures, if the learn'd are right, It is the slaver kills, and not the bite. A fool quite angry is ;uito innocent : Alas ! 'tis ten tinrvs worse when they repent One dedicates... | |
 | Stephen Jones - 1812 - Počet stránok 50
...two preceding Notes exhibit specimens o£ hypercriticism which, perhaps, can scarcely be outdone. " Of all mad creatures, if the learn'd are right, " It is the sla-ver kills, and not the bite." (XXXI.) For this scrap of information Mr. Jones i» thankful. '.' The toad, ugly and yenomoui, " Wears... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - Počet stránok 402
...too could write, and I am twice as tall ; [all. But foes like these — P. One flatterer's worse than Of all mad creatures, if the learn'd are right, It is the slaver kills, and not the bite. A fool quite angry is quite innocent : Alas ! 'tis ten times worse when they repent. One dedicates... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - Počet stránok 276
...too could write, and I am twice as tall; [all. But foes like these—P. One flatterer's worse than. Of all mad creatures, if the learn'd are right, It is the slaver kills, and not the bite. A fool quite angry is quite innocent: Alas! 'tis ten times worse when they repent. One dedicates in... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - Počet stránok 494
...hurtful than a flatterer. For, says he, (in a pleasant simile addressed to his friend's profession), " Of all mad creatures, if the learn'd are right, It is the slaver kills, and not the bite." And how abject and excessive the flattery of these creatures was, he shews, by observing that they... | |
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