 | John Todd - 1839 - 116 σελίδες
...no reproach. It is the character ascribed to Garrick by Goldsmith, against which I am warning you. "Of praise a mere glutton, he swallowed what came, And the puff of a dunce, he mistook it for feme ; Till his relish grown callous almost to disease, Who peppered the highest was surest to please.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 550 σελίδες
...down the fint poetof all antiquity. Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the pufTof c come in for a share. As these offer the feeble mind a lese laborious entertainment, pepperM the highest, was surest to please. But let us he candid, and sjieak out our mind, If dunces... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1840 - 504 σελίδες
...pack, For he knew when he pleased 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,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 σελίδες
...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 - 1841 - 398 σελίδες
...pack, For he knew when he pleased 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,... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Peake - 1841 - 442 σελίδες
...Retaliation, observes, he was — 410 THE DUCHESS OF KINGSTON ' In praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff of a dunce, he mistook it for fame.' and after gorging upon the applause of thundering audiences, and judicious crities, his unsatiated... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 416 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | 1842 - 452 σελίδες
...marked this feature in Garrick's character in these lines — " Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff of a dunce he mistook it for fame ; Till his relish growu callous, almost to disease, Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please." This propensity also... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 σελίδες
...when he pleased, he could whistle then back. Of praise a mere glutton, he swallowed what саше ; relations. Mrs Piozzi died at Clifton in 1822. T!ie Three Wamiiwß. peppered the highest was surest to please. But let ив be candid, and speak out our mind; If dunces... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 σελίδες
...he could whistle them back. Of praise a mere glutton, he swallowed what came ; And the ] ! 1 1 1 1 he lip of the nymph we admire Seems for ever adorned with a smile. She is faithless, peppered the highest was surest to please. But let us be candid, and speak out our mind ; If dunces... | |
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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,... 
