 Not weighed or winnowed by the multitude, But swallowed in the mass unchewed and crude. Some truth there was, but dashed and brewed with lies, To please the fools, and puzzle all the wise : Succeeding times did equal folly call, Believing nothing, or...  Irish Monthly Magazine - Page 5871877Full view - About this book
 | 1871
...quotes Dryden's vigorous lines — " From hence begat that Plot, the nation's curse, Bad in itself, but represented worse, Raised in extremes, and in extremes...the fools and puzzle all the wise : Succeeding times did equal folly call Believing nothing or believing all." (ii. 288.) We need hardly add, that he argues... | |
 | William Dougal Christie - 1871 - 642 pages
..." From hence began that Plot, the nation's curse, Bad in itself, but represented worse, I !* 'M , I in extremes, and in extremes decried, With oaths affirmed,...the fools and puzzle all the wise : Succeeding times did equal folly call Believing nothing or believing all. " l But the same poet has with foul injustice... | |
 | William Dougal Christie - 1871 - 652 pages
...thus fairly judged the Plot : — " From hence began that Plot, the nation's curse, Bad in itself, but represented worse, Raised in extremes, and in extremes...but dashed and brewed with lies To please the fools anil puzzle all the wise : Succeeding times did equal folly call Believing nothing or belieTing all."1... | |
 | John Dryden - 1871 - 368 pages
...nation's curse, Bad in itself, but represented worse, Raised in extremes, and in extremes decried, no With oaths affirmed, with dying vows denied, Not weighed...lies To please the fools and puzzle all the wise: 115 Succeeding times did equal folly call Believing nothing or believing all. The Egyptian rites the... | |
 | John Dryden - 1871 - 380 pages
...nation's curse, Bad in itself, but represented worse, Raised in extremes, and in extremes decried, no With oaths affirmed, with dying vows denied, Not weighed...lies To please the fools and puzzle all the wise: 115 Succeeding times did equal folly call Believing nothing or believing all. The Egyptian rites the... | |
 | John Dryden - 1897 - 764 pages
...with dying vows denied, Not weighed or winnowed by the multitude, But swallowed in the mass, uncliewed and crude. Some truth there was, but dashed and brewed...with lies To please the fools and puzzle all the wise : 115 Succeeding times did equal folly call Believing nothing or believing all. The Egyptian t rites... | |
 | 1871 - 650 pages
...morning with their throats cut.'* There was also real danger from the secret compact with Louis : — ' Some truth there was, but dashed and brewed with lies...the fools and puzzle all the wise : Succeeding times did equal folly call Believing nothing or believing all." The manner in which Macaulay endeavours to... | |
 | John Dryden - 1874 - 376 pages
...nation's curse, Bad in itself, but represented worse, Raised in extremes, and in extremes decried, no With oaths affirmed, with dying vows denied, Not weighed...lies To please the fools and puzzle all the wise: 115 Succeeding times did equal folly call Believing nothing or believing all. The Egyptian rites the... | |
 | John Dryden - 1874 - 388 pages
...affirmed, with dying vows denied, Not weighed or winnowed by the multitude, But swallowed in the mas?, unchewed and crude. Some truth there was, but dashed...lies To please the fools and puzzle all the wise: 115 Succeeding times did equal folly call Believing nothing or believing all. The Egyptian rites the... | |
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