Flowers of rhetoric in sermons and serious discourses are like the blue and red flowers in corn, pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap the profit from it. The Literary panorama - Page 8091818Full view - About this book
| Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth - 1754 - 398 pages
...to keep a foo] conftantly in good humour with himfelf and with others, is no very eafy tafk. XLHI. The difference between what is commonly called ordinary company and good company, is only hearing the fame things faid in a little room or in a large falon, at fmall tables or at great tables, before two... | |
| Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth - 1760 - 236 pages
...a fool conftantly in good humour with himfelf and with others, is no very eafy ta/k. XLIII. XLIII. The difference between what is commonly called Ordinary company and good company, is only hearing the fame things faid in a little room or in a large ; Isflon, at fmall tables or at great tables, before... | |
| Jonathan Swift - English literature - 1761 - 392 pages
...conftantly in good humour with himfelf aad with others, is no very ealy talk. XLIL The difference betwixt what is commonly called ordinary company and good company, is only hearing the fame things faid in & little room, or in a large falon, at final! tablef, oral great tables, before... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1768 - 352 pages
...to keep a fool conftantly in good humour with himfelf and with others, is no very eafy tafk. XLIII. The difference between what is commonly called ordinary company and good company, is only hearing the fame things faid in a little room or in a large faloon, at fmall tables or at great tables, before... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1774 - 348 pages
...conftantly in good humour with, himlelf andi with others, is no very eaiy tafk XLII. The difference betwixt what is commonly called ordinary company and good company, is only hearing the fame things faid in a little room, or in a large falon, at fmall tables, or at great tables, before... | |
| Alexander Pope - English literature - 1797 - 440 pages
...; and to keep a fool conftantly in good humour with himfelf, and with others, is no very eafy talk. The difference between what is commonly called ordinary company and good company, is only hearing the fame things faid in a little room, or in a large faloon, at fmall tables or at great tables, before... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 498 pages
...rhetorick, in sermons and serious discourses, are like the blue and red flowers in corn, pleasing to them who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap the profit. XXX. When two people compliment each other with the choice of any thing, each of them generally gets... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 496 pages
...rhetorick, in sermons and serious discourses, are like the blue and red flowers in corn, pleasing to them who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap the profit. XXX. When two people compliment each other with the choice of any thing, each of them generally gets... | |
| William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...generosity if he were a rich man. Flowers of rhetoric in sermons or serious discourses , are like the blue and red flowers in corn , pleasing to those who come...but prejudicial to him who would reap the profit. It often happens that those are the best people, whose characters have been most injured by slanderers... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 442 pages
...; and to keq> a fool conftantly in good humour with himfelf, and with others, is no very eafy tafk. The difference between what is commonly called ordinary company and good company, is only hearing the fame things faid in a little room, or in a large faloon, at fmall tables or at great tables, before... | |
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