 | Isaac Jack Reeve - 1866 - 332 pages
...show it ; Whene'er he writes verses he cannot be borne. And therefore he is not a poet. RIJLE INVERSE. 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. MATTHEW PRIOE. PORSON'S EPIGRAM ON HIS ACADEMIC... | |
 | Matthew Prior - 1866 - 350 pages
...unhappily thought fit To publish it to all the nation : Sure John and I are more than quit. ANOTHER. ES, every poet is a fool : By demonstration Ned can show it : Happy, could Ned's inverted rule Prove every fool to be a poet. ANOTHER. HY nags, (the leanest things alive)... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1867 - 334 pages
...wine had warmed the politician, Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician." '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." bear a great resemblance to that most delightful... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 414 pages
...wine had warmed the politician, Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician." ' 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." " On his death-bed poor Lubin lies, His spouse... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 410 pages
...wine had warmed the politician, Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician." " 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." " On his death-bed poor Lubin lies, His spouse... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 410 pages
...wine had warmed the politician, Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician." ' 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." " On his death-bed poor Lubin lies, His spouse... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 414 pages
...wine had warmed the politician, Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician." ' 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." " On his death-bed poor Lubin lies, His spouse... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1872 - 660 pages
...wine had warmed the politician, Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician." ' 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." ' ' On his death-bed poor Lubin lies, His... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1873 - 610 pages
...wine had warmed the politician, Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician." ' 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." (' * A different cause,' says Parson Sly,... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1874 - 332 pages
...resemblance to that most delightful and accomplished master.' f Here is one of his epigrams: — ' 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.' . To Prior, in the lecture from which 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. 
