 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,...  The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal - Page 4981802Full view - About this book
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1800 - 192 pages
...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...relish grown callous, almost to disease, Who pepper'd tlie highest was surest to please. But let us be candid, and speak out our mind, If dunces applauded,... | |
 | 1802 - 572 pages
...the Lyric Poet, Maupertuls, Vernet, the Marquis Mnffei, Jean Jacques Rousseau, and Bishop Warburton. There are also others of inferior note, whom it surprizes...please." The censure and opposition of such men as Desfontaines and Frertn gave him pain, and he persecuted them with unremitting virulence and malignity.... | |
 | Richard Warner - Borders Region (Scotland) - 1802 - 332 pages
...cast off his friends, as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when hepleas'd he could whistle them back. Of praise a mere glutton, he swallowed what came,...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." The most... | |
 | Richard Warner - 1803 - 702 pages
...umf>er ifc ((йф, anb ber ^oben fanbig. SDiefe 3frt von Sanb fanben And the puff of a dunce he mistook for fame ; Till his relish grown callous, almost to...disease. Who pepper'd the highest, was surest to please. Bat let us be candid, and speak out our mind, If dunces applauded , be paid them in kind. wir nuf bera... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 pages
...pack, For heknew when hepleas'dhe could whistle them back. Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow 'd what came, And the puff of a dunce, he mistook it for fame ; * Vide page 74 Till his relish grown callous, almost to disease, Who pepper'd the highest was surest... | |
 | John Aikin - Biography - 1803 - 646 pages
...this feature in his portrait. — Of praise a mere glutton, he swallowed what cume, And the puff ot a dunce, he mistook it for fame ; Till his relish grown callous, almost la disease, Who pcjjper'd the highest, was. surest to please. Retaliation. This propensity also rendered... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1805 - 264 pages
...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. H2 YeKenricks,... | |
 | Select collection - Epitaphs - 1806 - 262 pages
...cast off his friends, as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back. Of praise a mere glutton, he swallowed what came,...'Till his relish grown callous, almost to disease, Who pepper' d the highest, was surest to please. But let us be candid, and speak out our mind, If dunces... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...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...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,... | |
 | Jane West - Women - 1806 - 480 pages
...Muse records this foible of one of her favourite sons * : " Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, " And the puff of a dunce he mistook it..." Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please." .• Garrick. See Goldsmith's poem'of Retaliation, D 4 It still sometimes happens, that a young woman,... | |
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