 It is success that colours all in life ; Success makes fools admir'd, makes villains honest. All the proud virtue of this vaunting world Fawns on success and power, howe'er acquir'd.  Bentley's Miscellany - Page 235edited by - 1844Full view - About this book
 | James Thomson - 1802 - 348 pages
...self-defence, Unheard-of meanness! stamp it into shame ? No; let us wipe it out with bold success. It is success that colours all in life: Success makes...vaunting world Fawns on success and power, howe'er acquir'd. If then, supposing guilt, it were a meanness To stoop to shame, can words express the madness... | |
 | James Thomson, Patrick Murdoch - English literature - 1802 - 332 pages
...self-defence, Unheard-of meanness ! stamp it into shame ? No ; let us wipe it out with bold success. It is success that colours all in life : Success makes...vaunting world Fawns on success and power, howe'er acquir'd. If then, supposing guilt, it were a meanness To stoop to shame, can words express the madness... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...mortals to command success ; But we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it. Addison's Cato. .y£v . It is success that colours all in life : Success makes...vaunting world Fawns on success, and power, howe'er acquir'd. Thomson's Agamemnon, a. 5, s. 1. What tho' I am a villain, who so bold To tell me so ? Let... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...article. — Shenstone. DCCCLXV. It is success that colours all in life: Success makes fools admired, makes villains honest: All the proud virtue of this...on success, and power, howe'er acquired. Thomson. DCCCLXVI. The unhappy affectation of being wise rather than honest, witty than good-natured, is the... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 pages
...article. — Shenstone. DCCCLXV. It is success that colours all in life : Success makes fools admired, makes villains honest: All the proud virtue of this...on success, and power, howe'er acquired. Thomson. DCCCLXVL The unhappy affectation of being wise rather than honest, witty than good-natured, is the... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 822 pages
...Sappho, Bion, Moschus, and MUSSEUS, 12mo. 1760; the Idylliums of Somemle. Success makes fools admired, makes villains honest . All the proud virtue of this...world Fawns on success, and power, howe'er acquired. Thompson. The whole of the speech is hypocritical, fairning, Theocritus, 8vo. 1767 ; and the Argonautics... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1847 - 540 pages
...mortals to command success ; But we 'll do more, Sempronius — we 'i1 deserve it. ADDISON'S Colo. 3. It is success that colours all in life ; Success makes...vaunting world Fawns on success and power, howe'er acquir'd. THOMSON. 1. Applause Waits on success ; the fickle multitude, Like the light straw that floats... | |
 | James Weir - American fiction - 1850 - 704 pages
...entirely different thing ; for — " It is success that colours all in life ; Success makes fools admired, makes villains honest ; All the proud virtue of this...world Fawns on success and power, howe'er acquired." And we delight much to view him when his house is completed and furnished, and he sits down, crosses... | |
 | James Thomson - 1850 - 800 pages
...wipe it out with bold sueeess. It is sueeess that eolours all in life : Sueeess makes fools admired, makes villains honest. All the proud virtue of this vaunting world Fawns on sueeess and power, howe'er aequired. If then, supposing guilt, it were a meanness To stoop to shame,... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1853 - 442 pages
...at moments back to this. The busy have no time for tears. Byron. SUCCESS. It is success that colors all in life : Success makes fools admir'd, makes villains...Fawns on success and power, howe'er acquired. Thomson. Applause Waits on success ; the fickle multitude, Like the light straw that floats along the stream,... | |
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