 Of all mad creatures, if the learn'd are right, It is" the slaver kills, and not the bite. A fool quite angry is quite innocent : Alas ! 'tis ten times worse when they repent. One dedicates in high heroic prose...  The Ordeal - Page 3191809Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1824 - 498 pages
...hurtful than a flatterer. For, says he, (in a pleasant simile addressed to his friend's profession), " Of all mad creatures, if the learn'd are right, It is the slaver kills, and not the bite." And how abject and excessive the flattery of these creatures was, he shews, by observing that they... | |
 | Jacques Delille - English poetry - 1824 - 474 pages
...too could write, and I am twice as tall ; But foes like these... P. One flatt'rer's worse than all. Of all mad creatures, if the learn'd are right, It is the slaver kills, and not the bite. A fool quite angry is quite innocent : i Alas ! 'tis ten times worse when they repent. Quand Vulcain,... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1824 - 406 pages
...too could write, and I am twice as tall ; But foes like these — P. One flatterer's worse than all. Of all mad creatures, if the learn'd are right, It is" the slaver kills, and not the bite. A fool quite angry is quite innocent : Alas ! 'tis ten times worse when they repent. One dedicates... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...too could write, and I am twice as tall ; [all. But foes like these — P. One flatterer's worse than -/ A fool quite angry is quite innocent: Alas ! 'tis ten times worse when they repent. One dedicates in... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1824 - 498 pages
...hurtful than a flatterer. For, says he, (in a pleasant simile addressed to his friend's profession), " Of all mad creatures, if the learn'd are right, It is the slaver kills, and not the bite." And how abject and excessive the flattery of these creatures was, he shews, by observing that they... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...too could write, and I am twice as tall ; But foes like these — P. One flatterer's worse than all. Of all mad creatures, if the learn'd are right, It is the slaver kills, and not the bite. A fool quite angry is quite innocent : Alas ! 'tis ten times worse when they repent. One dedicates... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...am twiee as tall ; But foes like these — P. One flatterer's worse than all. Of all mad ereatures, n that blest moment from A fool quite angry is quite innoeent : Alas ! 'tis ten times worse when they repent. One dedieates... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 502 pages
...too ould write, and I am twice as tall ; Пит foes like these— P. One flatterer's worse than al Of all mad creatures, if the learn'd are right, It is the slaver kills, and not the bite. A fool quite angry is quite innocent : Alas ! 'tis ten times worse when they repent. One dedicatee... | |
 | lady Dorothea Knighton - 1838 - 480 pages
...entertains of me. I listened; but I consider a slanderer less hurtful than a flatterer : ,. ' For of all creatures, if the learn'd are right, . . It is the slaver kills, and not the bite.' •• His conduct may be passed by ; and I hope I shall ever retain the wise maxim, ' WisVOL. i. D... | |
 | 1839 - 366 pages
...claims may be, the censure of such assailants I defy. Their praise, indeed, might be fatal ; for, — ' Of all mad creatures,— if the learn'd are right, — It is the slaver kills, and not the bite.' — Pope. " I advocate, Sir, no private or personal object. Selfish interests have never prompted my... | |
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