 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 σελίδες
...sudden bow, Adieu, dear sir, lest you should lose it now. A graver coxcomb we may sometimes see, Quite S 1 rome, But when you knock, it never is at home : Tis like a parcel sent you by the stage, Some handsome... | |
 | William Cowper - 1847 - 556 σελίδες
...graver coxcomb we may sometimes see, Quite as absurd, though not so light as he ; A shallow brain bebind a serious mask. An oracle within an empty cask, The solemn fop; significant and budge; .'. fool with judges, amongst fools a judge ; He &ays but little, and that little said Owes all its... | |
 | Anna Harriet Drury - 1849 - 394 σελίδες
...and left the room. CHAPTER VII. The solemn fop, significant and budge ; A fool with judges — among fools a judge : He says but little, and that little...said, Owes all its weight, like loaded dice, to lead. COWPER. ]ISS ARMADALE had hardly reached her own apartment, when Nisbett hurried in. " Dear me, ma'am,... | |
 | Anna Harriet Drury - 1849 - 276 σελίδες
...CHAPTER VII. The solemn fop, significant and budge ; A fool with judges—among fools a judge ; He eays but little, and that little said, Owes all its weight, like loaded dice, to lead. COWPER. Miss ARMADALE had hardly reached her own apartment, when Nisbett hurried in. " Dear me, ma'am,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1851 - 620 σελίδες
...cogence, we may say, Why such a one should keep himself away. A graver coxcomb we may sometimes see Quite y, W^hen to the listening senate, ardent, crowd gays but little, and that little said Owes all its weight, like loaded dice, to lead. His wit invites... | |
 | William Cowper - 1851 - 624 σελίδες
...others a la-mart • An argument of cogence, we may eay, Why such a one should keep himself away. 43 He says but little, and that little said Owes all its weight, like loaded dice, to lead. ni- wit invites you by his looks to come, Rut when you knock, it never is at home. Tis like a pareel... | |
 | Daniel Macintosh - 1852 - 160 σελίδες
...bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear ; Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year. The solemn fop ; significant and budge ; A fool with...said Owes all its weight, like loaded dice, to lead. Man in society is like a flower Blown in its native bed ; 'tis there alone His faculties, expanded... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 σελίδες
...may say, Why such a one should keep himself away. A graver coxcomb we may sometimes see, 285 Quite as absurd, though not so light as he : A shallow brain...within an empty cask, The solemn fop ; significant and budge1 ; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge ; 290 He says but little, and that little said Owes... | |
 | Caroline Howard Gilman - 1852 - 412 σελίδες
...this world roll off, and leave us alone with God ! CHAPTER IV. ME. JOSEPH BATES, THE YANKEE LAD. " A shallow brain behind a serious mask, An oracle within an empty cask, He says but little, and, that little said, Owes all its weight, like loaded dice, to lead." Cowper's... | |
 | William Cowper - 1852 - 466 σελίδες
...graver coxcomh we may sometimes see, Quite as ahsurd, though not so light as he: A shallow hrain hehind a serious mask, An oracle within an empty cask, The solemn fop ; sigmiicant and hudge ; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge ; He says hut little, and that little... | |
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He says but little, and that little said Owes all its weight, like loaded dice, to lead. His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock it never is at home: 'Tis like a parcel sent you... 
