 | 1774 - 846 pages
...pleas'd with Say, where has our poet this malady caught, [fault? Or wherefore his characters thus without Say was it that vainly directing his view , To find out men's virtues, and finding them few, || In this line the author alluded to Mr. Richard Burke's having frequently fractured his... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1774 - 70 pages
...have their follies fo loft in a croud Of virtues and feelings, that folly grows proud, And coxcombs alike in their failings alone, Adopting his portraits...caught, Or wherefore his characters thus without fault ? f Say was it that vainly directing his view, To find out mens virtues and finding them few, Quite... | |
 | History - 1778 - 630 pages
...virtues and feelings, that folly grows proud, And coxcombs alike in their failings alone, Adopting hit portraits are pleas'd with their own. Say, where has...Say was it that vainly directing his view, To find oat mens virtues and finding them few, Quite fick of purfuing each troublefome elf, He grew lazy at... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1780 - 204 pages
...have their follies fo loft in a crowd Of virtues and feelings, that folly grows proud, And coxcombs alike in their failings alone, Adopting his portraits...was it that vainly directing his view To find out mens virtues, and finding them few, Quite fick of purfuing each troublefome elf, He grew lazy at laft,... | |
 | Thomas Davies - Actors - 1780 - 458 pages
...grows proud; And coxcombs, alike in their failings alone, . • Adopting his portraits^, are proud of their own. Say, where has our poet this malady caught?...his characters thus without fault? Say, was it, that valnly dirc&ina; bis view To find out men's virtues, and finding them few, Quite fick of purfuino;... | |
 | Thomas Davies - Actors - 1781 - 464 pages
...grows proud ; And And coxcombs, alike in their failings alone, Adopting his portraits, are proud of their own. Say, where has our poet this malady caught?...directing his view To find out men's virtues, and rinding them few, Quite fick of purfuing each troublefome elf, He grew lazyatlaft, and drew from himfelf?... | |
 | 1785 - 304 pages
...have their follies TO loft in a crowd Of virtues and feelings, that folly grow s proud, And coxcombs alike in their failings alone, Adopting his portraits...has our poet this malady caught ; Or, wherefore his charafters thus without fault? Say, was it that vainly direfting his view To find out men's virtues,... | |
 | English poetry - 1785 - 316 pages
...have their follies <b loft in a crowd Of virtues and feelings, that folly grows proud, And coxcombs alike in their failings alone, Adopting his portraits...with their own. Say, where has our poet this malady catigh't; Or, wherefore his charafters thus without fault? Say, was it that vainly directing his view... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1791 - 206 pages
...feelings, that folly grows proud, And Coxcombs alike in their facings alone, Ad6f»flng his pwtraits are pleas'd with their own. Say, where has our poet...? Or, wherefore his characters thus without fault ? S*y, \Vte it that vaitrly dir'e&ing his view To find out mens virtues, and finding them few, Quite... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Essays - 1792 - 308 pages
...have their follies, fo loft in a crowd Of virtues and failings, that Folly grows proud ; And coxcombs, alike in their failings alone,' Adopting his portraits,...characters thus without fault? Say, was it, that vainly direfting his view, To find out men's virtues, and finding them few, Oolite fick of purfuing each troublefome... | |
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And coxcombs, alike in their failings alone, Adopting his portraits, are pleas'd with their own. Say, where has our poet this malady caught ? Or wherefore his characters thus without fault ? Say, was it that vainly directing his view To find out men's... 
