 | Frederick Locker- Lampson - 1867 - 428 pages
...grows proud ; And coxcombs, alike in their failings alone, Adopting his portraits, are pleased with their own. Say, where has our poet this malady caught...directing his view To find out men's virtues, and finding them few, Quite sick of pursuing each troublesome elf, He grew lazy at last, and drew from... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1868 - 276 pages
...grows proud ; And coxcombs, alike in their failings alone, Adopting his portraits, are pleas'd with their own. Say, where has our poet this malady caught? Or wherefore his characters thus without fault ? 18 Cumberland, at this period, was chiefly noted as a dramatist — a dramatist of the sentimental... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1869 - 1502 pages
...grows proud ; And coxcombs, alike in their failings alone, Adopting his portraits, are pleased with rks its weedy way ; Along thy glades, a solitary guest, The hollow-sounding finding them few, Quite sick of pursuing each troublesome elf, He grew lazy at last, and drew from... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1869 - 810 pages
...nutK'ring painter, who made it his caro To draw men am tuey ought to be, Dot as they are. S;iy, whfre htifl our poet this malady caught, Or wherefore his characters...fault? Say, was it that, vainly directing his view To nud out men's virtues, and finding them few, Quito sick of pursuing each troublesome eli. He grew lazy... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1869 - 404 pages
...their fallings alone, Adopting his portraits, are pleas'd with their own. Say, where has our poet thin malady caught, Or, wherefore his characters thus without...fault ? Say, was It that vainly directing his view To fliid oat men'a virtues, and finding them few, unite sick of pursuing each troublesome elf, He grew... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1870 - 456 pages
...grows proud; And coxcombs, alike in their failings alone, Adopting his portraits, are pleased with their own. Say, where has our poet this malady caught,...directing his view To find out men's virtues, and finding them few, Quite sick of pursuing each troublesome elf, He grew lazy at last, and drew from... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1872 - 524 pages
...grows proud; And coxcombs, alike in their failings alone, Adopting his portraits, are pleased with their own. Say, where has our poet this malady caught...directing his view To find out men's virtues, and finding them few, Quite sick of pursuing each troublesome elf, He grew lazy at last— and drew from... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1872 - 80 pages
...grows proud ; 7° And coxcombs alike in their failings alone, Adopting his portraits, are pleased with their own. Say, where has our poet this malady caught...directing his view To find out men's virtues, and finding them few, Quite sick of pursuing each troublesome elf, He grew lazy at last, and drew from... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1872 - 458 pages
...proud; And coxcombs, alike in their failings alone, Adopting his portraits, are pleased with then: own. Say, where has our poet this malady caught, Or...directing his view To find out men's virtues, and finding them few, Quite sick of pursuing each troublesome elf, He grew lazy at last, and drew from... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1872 - 280 pages
...grows proud ; And coxcombs, alike in their failings alone, Adopting his portraits, are pleas'd with their own. Say, where has our poet this malady caught? Or wherefore his characters thus without fault ? Ja Cumberland, at this period, was chiefly noted as a dramatist — a dramatist of the sentimental... | |
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Adopting his portraits, are pleased with their own. Say, where has our poet this malady caught? Or wherefore his characters thus without fault? Say, was it that, vainly directing his view To find out men's virtues, and finding them few, Quite sick of... 
