 Nash represents man in the mass, Made up of wrong and right; Sometimes a knave, sometimes an ass, Now blunt and now polite. "The picture plac'd the busts between. Adds to the thought much strength Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly's at full length.  Notes and Queries - Page 711879Full view - About this book
 | John Alonzo Clark - Europe - 1840 - 588 pages
...wrong and right ; Sometimes a knave, sometimes an ass, Now blunt, and now polite. " The statue placed the busts between, Adds to the thought much strength : Wisdom and wit are little seen, But folly at full length !" Nash seems to have been a vain, giddy, reckless character, who acquired his money... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1847 - 376 pages
...it has usually been separated, and with some difference in the reading. The stanza is as follows : " The picture, plac'd the busts between, Adds to the...Wit are little seen, But Folly 's at full length." MRS. PILKINGTON, well known for departures, not in the best taste, from the ordinary modes of her sex,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1847 - 316 pages
...it has usually been separated, and with some difference in the reading. The stanza is as follows: " The picture, plac'd the busts between, Adds to the...much strength; Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly'sat full length.." MRS. PILKINGTON, well known for departures not in the best taste, from the... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1903 - 666 pages
...knave, sometimes an ass, Nash represents man in the mass Now blunt and now polite. The statuo placed the busts between Adds to the thought much strength...wit are little seen, But folly 's at full length. BRUTUS. The suggestion of the REV. J. PICKFORD that the portrait of Beau Nash should be replaced between... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1879 - 566 pages
...Mrs. Brereton's Poems. In the latter place the exact words are : — "The Picture placed the Basts between Adds to the Thought much Strength ; Wisdom and Wit are little seen, Bat Folly 'sat full Length." ERNEST C. THOMAS. " On 3fr. NasVs Picture atfidl Length, letwten the Biuti... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 478 pages
...everything in the world. But, perhaps, it will be thought wrong in me to unveil the blushing muse, to " The picture plac'd the busts between, Adds to the...much strength ; Wisdom and Wit are little seen, * But Folly's at full length." In the first edition of the "Life of Nash" Goldsmith had quoted only the last... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 540 pages
...maai, Made up of wrong and right ; Sometimes a knave, sometimes an ass, Now blunt, aml now polite. "The picture plac'd the busts between, Adds to the...strength ; Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly at full length." Campbell'! BHtith Poit!, TO', T, p. 260. ] The example of the corporation was. followed... | |
 | George Gilfillan - English poetry - 1860 - 360 pages
...between the Busts of Newton and Pope at Bath,' of which this is the last stanza — ' The picture placed the busts between, Adds to the thought much strength ; Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly's at full length ;'— Thomas Penrose, who is more memorable as a warrior than as a poet, having... | |
 | John Alfred Langford - England - 1862 - 310 pages
...wrong and right : Sometimes a knave, sometimes an ass ; Now blunt, and now polite. " The statue placed the busts between, Adds to the thought much strength...wit are little seen, But folly 's at full length." Beau Nash no longer struts about the place, the admired of all observers; Beau Brummell no more gladdens... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1865 - 504 pages
...edition of Pope. BBERETON. — BERKELEY.— CAREY. 215 JANE BRERETON. 1685-1740. The picture, placed the busts between, Adds to the thought much strength...Wit are little seen, But Folly 's at full length.* On Beau Nash's Picture at full length, between the Busts of Sir Isaac Newton and Mr. Pope.* BISHOP... | |
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