Satire has always shone among the rest, And is the boldest way, if not the best, To tell men freely of their foulest faults; To laugh at their vain deeds, and vainer thoughts. The school for scandal: a comedy - Стр. 1авторы: Richard Brinsley B. Sheridan - 1820Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| John Bell - 1778 - Страниц: 438
...with their poems, they grew wiser too* TO Satire has always shone among the rest, And is the holdest way. if not the best, To tell men freely of their...To laugh at their vain deeds, and vainer thoughts. ID satire, too, the wise took diff'rent ways, I5 To each deserving its peculiar praise. Some did all... | |
| John Dryden - 1808 - Страниц: 382
...their poems, they grew wiser too. Satire has always shone among the rest, And is the boldest way, it' not the best. To tell men freely of their foulest faults, To laugh at their vain deeds, and vainer thought*. In satire, too, the wise took different ways, To each deserving its peculiar praise. Some... | |
| John Bell - 1807 - Страниц: 458
...men grew Pleas'd with their poems, they grew wiser too. 10 Satire has always shone among the rest, And is the boldest way, if not the best, To tell men...'rent ways, To each deserving its peculiar praise. Some did all folly with just sharpness blame, Whilst others laugh'd and scorn'd them into shame. But... | |
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - Страниц: 432
...as men grew Pleased with their poems, they grew wiser too. Satire has always shone among the rest ; And is the boldest way, if not the best, To tell men...and vainer thoughts. * In satire, too, the wise took different ways, To each deserving its peculiar praise. Some did all folly with just sharpness blame,... | |
| John Dryden, Thomas Park - 1808 - Страниц: 374
...as men grew Plcas'd with their poems, they grew wiser too. Satire has always shone among the rest, And is the boldest way, if not the best, To tell men freely of their foulest fanlts, To langh at their vain deeds, and vainer thoughts. In satire, too, the wise took different... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - Страниц: 654
...with theT poems, they grew wiser too. Satire has always shone among the rest, And is the boldest wav, if not the best, To tell men freely of their foulest...deeds, and vainer thoughts. In satire too the wise took different ways, To each deserving its peculiar praise. Some did all folly with just shaqiness blame,... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1814 - Страниц: 188
...that t)ryden had no hand in Buckingham's vulgar Essay on Satire, he asks in a note on that passage To tell men freely of their foulest faults, To laugh at their vain deeds and vainer thoughts* " Would Dry den nave pardoned such a rhyine?" It would appear so, for he used it repeatedly himself.... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1819 - Страниц: 644
...as men grew Ploas'd with their poems, they grew wiser too. Satire has always shone among the reit, And is the boldest way, if not the best, To tell men...deeds, and vainer thoughts. In satire too the wise took different ways, To each deserving its peculiar praise. Some did all folly with just sharpness blame,... | |
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - Страниц: 442
...as men grew Pleased with their poems, they grew wiser too. Satire has always shone among the rest ; And is the boldest way, if not the best, To tell men...and vainer thoughts.* In satire, too, the wise took different ways, To each deserving its peculiar praise. Some did all folly with just sharpness blame,... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - Страниц: 432
...tried The foulneu of the infernal form to hide. Dryden. FOU 490 Satire has always ihnne among the rest, And is the boldest way if not the best, To tell men truly of tbcir/oiifcrt faults. To laugh at their vain deeds, and vainer thoughts. U. Be fair or foul,... | |
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