 | John Quincy Adams - 1810 - 466 pages
...species. This is rather abstruse ; but perhaps the following little epigram of Prior will make it plainer. Yes, every poet is a fool, By demonstration Ned can show it ; Happy, could Ned's inverted rule Prove every fool to be a poet. Here fool is the genus, and poet the species... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 582 pages
...John unhappily thought fit To publish it to all the nation : {Sure John and I are more than quit. Yu, every poet is a fool. By demonstration Ned can show it, Happy, could Ned's inverted rule Prove every foul to be a poet. TBT nag*, the leanest things alive ' So very... | |
 | John Quincy Adams - 1810 - 446 pages
...species. This is rather abstruse ; but perhaps the following little epigram of Prior will make it plainer. every poet is a fool, By demonstration Ned can show it ; Happy, could Ned's inverted rule Prove every fool to be a poet. Here fool is the genus, and poet the species... | |
 | 1812 - 156 pages
...whose power can soften all, But that dear breast on which they fall. ccxxxcx. Reverse the Proposition. Yes ! every poet is a fool : By demonstration Ned can show it : Happy could Ned's inverted rule Prove every fool to be a poet. CCXL. Jack his own merit sees. This gives... | |
 | 1821 - 818 pages
...him among the successful poets of the present day. 173 ON VULGAB PREJUDICES AGAINST LITERATURE. Yea, every poet is a fool ; By demonstration, Ned can show it : Happy, could Ned's inverted rule Prove every fool to be a poet. PBIOB. THERE is nothing more to be lamented,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1824 - 598 pages
...add the weight of my authority, but that I stand in awe of the retort fulminated against Ned: — " Yes, every poet is a fool, By demonstration Ned can show it ; Happy, if Ned's inverted rule Prove every fool to be a poet." Whatever may have been the motive, certain it... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1824 - 598 pages
...the weight of my authority, but that I stand in awe of the retort fulminated against Ned :—- " Ye>, every poet is a fool, By demonstration Ned can show it ; Happy, if Ned's inverted rule Prove every fool to be a poet." Whatever may have been the motive, certain it... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1825 - 436 pages
...to add the weight of my authority, but that I stand in awe of the retort fulminated against Ned: " Yes, every poet is a fool— By demonstration Ned can show it; Happy, if.Ned's inverted rule Prove every fool to be a poet." M Whatever may have been the motive, certain... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1825 - 360 pages
...add the weight of my authority, but that I stand in awe of the retort fulminated against Ned: — " Yes, every poet is a fool, — By demonstration Ned can show it; Happy, if Ned's inverted rule Prove every fool to be a poet." Whatever may have been the motive, certain it... | |
 | Joe Miller - 1836 - 266 pages
...break, And my cruel unkindness compels him to speak : For of late I invite him— but four times a week. Yes, every poet is a fool : By demonstration Ned can show it : Happy, could Ned's inverted rule Prove every fool to be a poet. Rhymes given by Miss and filled up by the... | |
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Yes, every poet is a fool; By demonstration Ned can show it; Happy could Ned's inverted rule Prove every fool to be a poet. 
