 | 1823 - 430 pages
...error for truth, he esteems an eternal gain." DRYDEN AND SOUTHEY; OR, THE BLASPHEMY OF POETS LAUREAT. " "Tis from high life high characters are drawn, " A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn ; " Wise if a minister ; but, if a king, " More wise — more just — more learned — more every... | |
 | Literature - 1823 - 120 pages
...same time, that Mr. Johnson has unfortunately mistaken for sober earnest, the ridicule of the poet : ' 'Tis from high life, high characters are drawn, A saint in. crape, is twice a saint in lawn.' But, says Mr. Johnson triumphantly, ' where is the pro' duction, at all comparable to the first of... | |
 | Henrietta Hobart Howard Countess of Suffolk - Great Britain - 1824 - 486 pages
...Gentlemen, I leave you to your wine." 8 Pope expresses the same sentiment in his Epistle to Lord Cobham: " Tis from high life high characters are drawn, A saint...judge is just, a chancellor -juster still; A gownman learn'd; a bishop what you will; Wise if a minister; but if a king, More wise, more just, more learn'd,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...he was drunk. But, sage historians 1 'tis your task to prove One action, conduct ; one, heroic love. raws us with a single hair. Th' adventurous baron the bright locks learn'd ; a bishop, what you will ; Wise, if a minister; but, if a king, • [thing. More wise, more... | |
 | Henrietta Hobart Howard Countess of Suffolk - Great Britain - 1824 - 478 pages
...leave you to your wine." 8 Pope expresses the same sentiment in his Epistle to Lord Cobham : " "Pis from high life high characters are drawn, A saint...judge is just, a chancellor juster still ; A gownman learn'd ; a bishop what you will ; Wise if a minister ; but if a king, More wise, more just, more learn'd,... | |
 | William Scott - Diccion - 1825 - 382 pages
...bear the British thunder, black and bold, The roaring vessel rush'd into the main. — Thomson. 17. 'Tis from high life high characters are drawn ; A...judge is just ; a chancellor juster still ; A gownman learn'd ; a bishop — what you will : Wise, if a minister ; but, if a king, More wise, more learn'd,... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...he was drunk. But, sage historians ! 'tis your task to prove One action, conduct, one heroic love. Tis from high life high characters are drawn ; A saint...judge is just, a chancellor juster still ; A gownman learn'd ; a bishop what you will ; Wise if a minister ; but if a king, More wise, more learn'd, more... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 pages
...was drunk. But, sage historians! 'tis your task to prove One action, conduct ; one, heroic love. 'Tie e, And keener lightnings quicken in her eyes, The...: These set the head, and those divide the hair ; learn 'd, a bishop what you will ; Wise, if a minister ; but, if a king, More wise, more learn'd, more... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 pages
...he was drunk. But sage historians! 'tis your task to prove One action, conduct ; one, heroic love. 'Tis from high life high characters are drawn, A saint...judge is just, a chancellor juster still ; A gownman learn 'd, a bishop what you will ; Wise, if a minister; but, if a king, More wise, more learn'd, more... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1828 - 598 pages
...first settledthen come minor but not unimportant considerations ; then, and not till then, " A eaint in crape is twice a saint in lawn ; A judge is just...gown-man learned ; — a bishop, what you will ; Wise as a minister : but, if a king, More wise, more learned, more just, more every thing." The lady of... | |
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Tis from high life high characters are drawn : A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn ; A judge is just, a chancellor juster still ; A gownman learn'd ; a bishop what you will ; Wise if a minister ; but if a king, More wise, more learn'd, more just,... 
