 | James Beattie - Truth - 1771 - 588 pages
...qualities, that one knows not with what temper of mind to confider it ; " To laugh, were want of goodnefs, and of grace ; «' And to be grave, exceeds all power of face." • ' • • • » . But why infift fo long on the univerfal acknowledgement of man's free agency... | |
 | James Beattie - Classical education - 1776 - 504 pages
...qualities, that one knows not with what temper of mind to confider it: " To laugh, were want of goodnefs, and of grace ; " And to be grave, exceeds all power of face." But why infift fo long on the univerfal acknowledgement of man's free agency ? To me it is as evident,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1777 - 262 pages
...judge, how wretched I! Who can't be filent, and who will not lye : To laugh, were want of goodnefs and of grace, And to be grave, exceeds all power of face. I fit with fad civility, I read With honeft anguilh, and an aching head; And drop at laft, but in unwilling... | |
 | George Chalmers - 1794 - 482 pages
...with regard to the fecufity of property, and the fafety of the ftate. To laugh, were want of goodnefs and of grace ; And to be grave, exceeds all power of face. * Commentaries, vol. ip 328, 4th edit, • -1: K 3 CHA t CHAP. IX. The Commercial Failures, in 1763.... | |
 | George Chalmers - Great Britain - 1794 - 468 pages
...with regard to the fccurity of property, and the fafety of the ftate. To laugh, were want of goodnefs and of grace ; And to be grave, exceeds all power of face. * Commerjtajies, vol. ip ^28, 4th edit. CHAT. CHAP. IX. Commercial Failure!, in 1763. — Opinions... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 906 pages
...judge, h> w wretched I ? Who can't be filent, und who will not lie : To laugh, were want nf goodnefs and of grace ; And to be grave, exceeds all power of. face. 1 fit with fad civility; I read With horeft anguifh. and an aching head ; And drop at lair, hut in... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - English prose literature - 1800 - 550 pages
...from the mouths of the illiterate. « Pope perhaps had this passage in his thoughts when he wrote, " To laugh, were want of, goodness and of grace,, "...And to be grave, exceeds all power of face : " I sit zuitk sad civility,—I read " With honest anguish and an aching.head."' • l Our author appears to... | |
 | James Burgh - Elocution - 1804 - 308 pages
...readme dead. Seiz'd and try'd down to judge, how wretched I, Who can't be silent, and who wz7/ wo? lie. To laugh were want of goodness, and of grace ; And to be grave exceeds all po-w'r of face. I sit with sad civility. I read (1) With serious anguish, and an aching head ; Then... | |
 | James Beattie (LL.D.) - Truth - 1807 - 400 pages
...partakes so much of both qualities, that one knows hot with what temper of mind to consider it : " To laugh, were want of goodness, and of grace ; " And to be grave, exceeds all power of face. But why insist so long on the universal acknowledgment of man's free agency ? To me it is as evident... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...Seia'd and tied down to judge, how wretched I ! Who can't be silent, and who will not lie. To langh were want of goodness and of grace, And to be grave exceeds all pow'r of face. I sit with sad civility, I read With honest anguish and an aching head, And drop at... | |
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I sit with sad civility, I read With honest anguish and an aching head; And drop at last, but in unwilling ears, This saving counsel, 
