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
| Alexander Pope - 1806 - 446 pages
...and to keep a fool conftantly in good humour with himfelf, and with others, is no Very eafy taflc. 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... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1806 - 444 pages
...and to keep a fool con. ftantly 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 hear3 Ing the fame things faid in a little room, or in a large faloon, at fmall tables or at great... | |
| William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...generosity if he were a rick man. Flowers of rhetoric in sermons of serious discourses, ate like the blue and red flowers in corn, pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him vrho would reap the profit. It often hapens that those are the best people, whose characters have been... | |
| 1810 - 570 pages
...they say we are ill-natured' Flowers of rhetoric in sermons and serious discourses are like the blue and red flowers in corn, pleasing to those who come...prejudicial to him who would reap the profit from it. ' The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world \>, that it gives one the greater... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1812 - 322 pages
...Flowers of rhetoric in sermons and serious discourses are like the blue and red flowers in corn, 9 pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but...prejudicial to him who would reap the profit from it. When two people compliment each other with the choice of any thing, each of them generally gets that... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...; and to keep a fool constantly in good humour with himself, and with others, is no very easy task. The difference between what is commonly called ordinary...company and good company, is only hearing the same things said in a little room, or in a large saloon, at small tables or at great tables, before two... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1813 - 400 pages
...; and to keep a fool constantly in good humour with himself, and with others, is no very easy task. The difference between what is commonly called ordinary company and good company, is only hearing the * The same lentimenl occurs in a letter from Bolingbroke to Swift. same things said in a little room... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1813 - 412 pages
...pleased ; and to keep a fool constantly in good humour with himself, and with others, is no very easy The difference between what is commonly called ordinary company and good company, is only hearing th« * The same sentiment occurs in a letter from Bolingbroke to Swift. lame things said in a little... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 516 pages
...rhetoric, 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. He who tells a lie is not sensible how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent... | |
| Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 506 pages
...rhetoric, 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. When two people compliment each other with the choice of any thing, each of them generally gets that... | |
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