 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pages
...the dishes were ill-sorted; whole pyramids of sweet-meats for boys ant\ women, but little of solid meat for men. All this proceeded not from any want...knowledge, but of judgment. Neither did he want that in discerning the beauties and faults of other poets, but only indulged himself in the luxury of writing;... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pages
...the dishes were ill-sorted ; whole pyramids of sweet-meats for boys and women, but little of solid meat for men. All this proceeded not from any want...knowledge, but of judgment. Neither did he want that in discerning the beauties and faults of other poets, and nimis poela,* if we may believe Catullus, as... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1857 - 416 pages
...but the dishes were ill-sorted ; whole pyramids of sweatmeats for boys and women, but little of solid meat for men. All this proceeded not from any want...knowledge, but of judgment. Neither did he want that in discerning the beauties and faults of other poets, but only indulged himself in the luxury of writing;... | |
 | John Dryden - 1859 - 480 pages
...hut the dishes were ill-sorted: whole pyramids of sweetmeats for hoys and women, hut little of solid meat for men : all this proceeded not from any want of knowledge, hut of judgment; neither did he want that in discerning the heauties and faults of other poets ; hut... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...the dishes were ill-sorted ; whole pyramids of sweet-meats for boys and women, but little of solid meat for men. All this proceeded not from any want...knowledge, but of judgment. Neither did he want that in discerning the beauties and faults of other poets, but only indulged himself in the luxury of writing;... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...illsorted ; whole pyramids of sweet-meats for boys and women, but little of solid meat for men. AH this proceeded not from any want of knowledge, but of judgment. Neither did he want that in discerning the beauties and faults of other poets, but only indulged himself in the luxury of writing... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 pages
...but the dishes were ill-sorted; whole pyramids of sweet-meats for boys and women, but little of solid meat for men. All this proceeded not from any want...knowledge, but of judgment. Neither did he want that in discerning the beauties and faults of other poets, but only indulged himself in the luxury of writing;... | |
 | John Dryden - 1867 - 556 pages
...but the dishes were ill-sorted ; whole pyramids of sweetmeats for boys and women, but little of solid discerning the beauties and faults of other poets; but only indulged himself in the luxury of writing;... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1869 - 420 pages
...but the dishes were ill sorted; whole pyramids of sweetmeats for boys and women, but little of solid meat for men. All this proceeded not from any want...knowledge, but of judgment. Neither did he want that in discerning the beauties and faults of other poets, but only indulged himself in the luxury of writing;... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1869 - 418 pages
...but the dishes were ill-sorted ; whole pyramids of sweetmeats for boys and women, but little of solid meat for men. All this proceeded not from any want...knowledge, but of judgment. Neither did he want that in discerning the beauties and faults of other poets, but only indulged himself in the luxury of writing... | |
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There was plenty enough, but the dishes were ill sorted; whole pyramids of sweetmeats for boys and women but little of solid meat for men. All this proceeded not from any want of knowledge, but of judgment. Neither did he want that in discerning the beauties... 
