 Satire has always shone among the rest ; And is the boldest way, if not the best, To tell men freely of their foule'st faults, To laugh at their vain deeds, and vainer thoughts.* In satire, too, the wise took different ways, To each deserving its peculiar...  Studies in the Poetry of Italy - Page 68by Frank Justus Miller - 1901 - 348 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Bell - 1778 - 438 pages
...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 - 382 pages
...to convey In charming numbers ; so that as men grew Pleas'd with 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... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 458 pages
...convey In charming numbers ; so that as men grew Pleas'd with their poems, they grew wiser too. 10 Satire has always shone among the rest, And is the...To laugh at their vain deeds, and vainer thoughts. In satire, too, the wise took diff 'rent ways, To each deserving its peculiar praise. Some did all... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 432 pages
...to convey In charming numbers ; so that as men grew Pleased with their poems, they grew wiser too. Satire has always shone among the rest ; And is the...To laugh at their vain deeds, and vainer thoughts. * In satire, too, the wise took different ways, To each deserving its peculiar praise. Some did all... | |
 | John Dryden, Thomas Park - 1808 - 374 pages
...to convey In charming numbers ; so that as men grew Plcas'd with their poems, they grew wiser too. Satire has always shone among the rest, And is the...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 - 654 pages
...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...To laugh at their vain deeds, and vainer thoughts. In satire too the wise took different ways, To each deserving its peculiar praise. Some did all folly... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1814 - 188 pages
...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 - 644 pages
...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...To laugh at their vain deeds, and vainer thoughts. In satire too the wise took different ways, To each deserving its peculiar praise. Some did all folly... | |
 | Richard Brinsley B. Sheridan - 1820 - 96 pages
...FOR SCANDAL: i'% • A COMEDY. TN FIVE ACTS. BY RB SHERIDAN. Satire lias always shone among the res', And is the boldest way, if not the best, To tell men...To laugh at their vain deeds, and vainer thoughts. In satire, too, the wise took diff 'rent ways, To each deserving its peculiar praise. — J NEW-YORK:... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 442 pages
...to convey In charming numbers ; so that as men grew Pleased with their poems, they grew wiser too. Satire has always shone among the rest ; And is the...To laugh at their vain deeds, and vainer thoughts.* In satire, too, the wise took different ways, To each deserving its peculiar praise. Some did all folly... | |
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