 | John Nichols - Authors, English - 1815 - 872 pages
...The prime distinction of the Friend they lose. Twas SOCIAL WIT; which, never kindling strife, Blaz'd in the small, sweet courtesies of life: Those little...shone, Lending soft radiance to the richer stone. J. WARNER." * Of Jesus College, Cambridge ; LL. B. 1778; and instituted in that year both to the Rectory... | |
 | John Nichols - Authors, English - 1815 - 866 pages
...prime distinction of the Friend they lose. Twas SOCIAL WIT; which, never kindling strife, J31u7.'d in the small, sweet courtesies of life : Those little sapphires round the diamond shone, landing soft radiance to tlie richer stone. J. WAUNEK." * QfJesiw College, Cambridge ; LL. B. 1778;... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1840 - 616 pages
...prime distinction of the Friend they lose : — 'Twas Social Wit ; which, never kindling strife, Blaz'd in the small, sweet courtesies of life ; Those little...shone, Lending soft radiance to the richer stone." — E. 1 Married, in 1798, to the Earl of Yarmouth ; who, in 1822, succeeded his father as third Marquis... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1842 - 632 pages
...time : — " If, this gay Fav'rite lost, they yet can live, A tear to Selwyn let the Graces give ! With rapid kindness teach Oblivion's pall O'er the...shone. Lending soft radiance to the richer stone." — E. b Married, in 1798, to the Earl of Yarmouth ; who, in 1822, succeeded his father as third Marquis... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1842 - 590 pages
...the time :— " If, this gay Fav'rite lost, they yet can live, A tear to Selwyn let the Graces give ! With rapid kindness teach Oblivion's pall O'er the...diamond shone, Lending soft radiance to the richer stone."—E. Pray, delight in the following story: Caroline Vernon,/i#e cfhonneur, lost t'other night... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1843 - 440 pages
...amiable man : " If, this gay favourite lost, they yet can live, A tear to Selwyn let the Graces give ! With rapid kindness teach Oblivion's pall O'er the...shone, Lending soft radiance to the richer stone." COLONEL JOHN SELWYN. Colonel John Selwyn, of Matson, the father of George Selwyn, had been aide-de-camp... | |
 | 1844 - 702 pages
...published soon after his death, in which the Graces are invoked to fulfil several appropriate duties, 1 And fondly dictate to a faithful Muse The prime distinction...strife, Blazed in the small sweet courtesies of life.' Had we been at the writer's elbow, we would have sugo-ested shone or glowed in preference to blazed.... | |
 | LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, & LONGMANS - 1844 - 652 pages
...published soon after his death, in which the Graces are invoked to fulfil several appropriate duties, ' And fondly dictate to a faithful Muse The prime distinction...strife, Blazed in the small sweet courtesies of life.' Had we been at the writer's elbow, we would have suggested shone or glowed in preference to blazed.... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - Periodicals - 1851 - 584 pages
...dictate to a faithful Muse The prime distinction of the friend they lose. 'Twos social wit, which, novor kindling strife, Blazed in the small, sweet courtesies...shone, Lending soft radiance to the richer stone.' 'Speaking of bon-mots,' concludes our correspondent, 'reminds me of an anecdote of the late JOHN M.... | |
 | Richard Robert Madden - Authors, Irish - 1855 - 580 pages
...was not bestowed on him. Of D'Orsay's rich humor and repartee, it might be said, like Selwyn's : "His social wit, which, never kindling strife, Blazed in...shone, Lending soft radiance to the richer stone." It would be difficult to convey in words any precise idea of D'Orsay's wit and powers of facetiousness... | |
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Twas social wit, which, never kindling strife, Blazed in the small, sweet courtesies of life ; Those little sapphires round the diamond shone, Lending soft radiance to the richer stone. 
