 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 oldal
...pleas'd he could whistle them back. [came, Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what Ana the puffof a dunce he mistook it for fame ; Till his relish grown callous, almost to disease, But let us be candid, and speak out our mind ; If dunces applauded, he paid them in kind. Ye Kenricks,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1817 - 192 oldal
...pack, For he knew vvheirhe pleas'd he could whistle them back. Of praise a mere glutton, he svvallow'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. Ye Kenricks,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 294 oldal
...pack ; For he knew, when he pleas'd he could whistle them hack Of praise a mere glutton^he swallow'd what came. And the puff of a dunce he mistook it for fame; Till, his relish grown callons, almost to disease, Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please But let us he candid and... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 oldal
...as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleased he could whistle them back. 1 The Rev. Dr. Dodd. Of praise a mere glutton, he swallowed what came,...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... | |
 | Thomas Davies - 1818 - 312 oldal
...he pleas'd, IIP could whistle them back. Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And HIP puff of a dunce, he mistook it for fame ; 'Till his relish grown callous, ahnost to disease, Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please. But let us be candid and speak out... | |
 | Gulian C. Verplanck - 1819 - 226 oldal
...I was in his service several months before I found out that Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff of a dunce, he mistook it...disease, Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please. Pi PUFF. Page 131. " While all the plunder that rewards my toils, He makes his own—for what he steals... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1819 - 120 oldal
...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. ^ ' Te Kenricks*,... | |
 | Gulian Crommelin Verplanck - 1819 - 310 oldal
...I was in his service several months before I found out that 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. Page 131. *' While all the plunder that rewards my toils, He makes his own—for... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 314 oldal
...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. Ye Kenricks,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 oldal
...cast offhis 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, And the puff of a dunce he mistook it for fame ; * James Macpherson, esq. who lately, from the mere force of his style, wrote down the first poet... | |
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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,... 
