 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 236 pages
...own defence : Each burns alike who can or cannot write, 30 Or with a rival's or an eunuch's spite. All fools have still an itching to deride, And fain would be upon the laughing side. If Mzvius scribble in Apollo's spite, There are who judge still worse than he can write. Some have... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1806 - 586 pages
...BUSY-BODY. The Busy-Body.—Wo. II. I ROM TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, TO TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1728,—9. All fools have still an itching to deride. And fain would be upon the laughing side.—POPE. MONSIEUR Rochefocault tells us somewhere in his Memoirs, that the Prince of CondS delighted... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1806 - 590 pages
...Busy-Body.— No. II. TUESDAY, rEURUART 4i TO TCKJDAY, rLURU IP.T 11, 7728,— & All fools have (till an itching to deride, And fain would be upon the laughing side. — POPS. MONSIEUR Rochefocauh tells us somewhere in h*8 Memoirs, that the Prince of Cond6 delighted... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1807 - 310 pages
.... 23 THE BUSYBODY.— No. II. from 'Tuesday, February 4, to Tuesday, February 1 {, 1728 — 9. • All fools have still an itching to deride, And fain would be upon the laughing side. — POPE. MONSIEUR Rochefocault tells u» somewhere in his Memoirs, that the Prince of Conde delighted... | |
 | John Ring - 1807 - 92 pages
...sufficient to feed the multitude, which principally consists of cursory readers and superficial judges. " All fools have still an itching to deride, And fain would be upon the laughing side." ' While, therefore, the Edinburgh Reviewers are able to please the mob of readers, it is not likely... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...their own defence ; Each burns alike, who can or cannot write, Or with a rival's or an ennuch's spite. All fools have still an itching to deride, And fain would be upon the langhing side. If Maevins scribble in Apollo's spite, There are who judge stitl worse tban he can write.... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...their own defence : Each burns alike, who can or caunot write, Or with a rival's or an ennuch's spite. All fools have still an itching to deride, And fain would be upon the laughing side. If Maivins scribble in Apollo's spite, There are whojudge still worse than he can write. Some have... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...their own defence : Each burns alike, who can or cannot write, Or with a rival's or an eunuch's spite. All fools have still an itching to deride, And fain would be upon the laughing side. If Man-ins scribble in Apollo's spite, There are whojudge still worse than he can write. Some have... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...own defence : Kach bums alike, wiio can or cannot write, Or with a Rival's or an F.imuc-h'? spite. All fools have still an itching to deride, And fain would be upon the lunching side. If Mxtius scribble in Apollo's -|)ite, Thrre are whojud^e still worse than he can write.... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...defence : Each burns alike, who can or cannot write. Or with a rival's or an ennuch's spite. All foots have still an itching to deride, And fain would be upon the langhing side. If Mttvins scribble in Apollo's spite, There are who jndge still worse than he can write.... | |
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... is good sense defaced: Some are bewilder'd in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs Nature meant but fools. In search of wit these lose their common sense, And then turn critics... 
