 Wakes from his dream, and labours for a joke ; With brisker air the silken courtiers gaze, And turn the varied taunt a thousand ways. Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest ; Fate never wounds more deep the...  Satire and Satirists - Seite 45von James Hannay - 1854 - 276 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 636 Seiten
...courtiers gaze And turn the varied taunt a thousand ways. Of all the griefs that harass the distressed, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest ; Fate never...heart, Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart. Has Heaven reserv'd in pity to the poor, No pathless waste or undiscovered shore ? No secret island... | |
 | Blackie and son, ltd - 1880 - 406 Seiten
...courtiers gaze, And turn the varied taunt a thousand ways. Of all the griefs that harass the distressed, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest; Fate never...heart, Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart. Has Heaven reserved, in pity to the poor, No pathless waste, or undiscover'd shore ? No secret island... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1881 - 738 Seiten
...feeds on dung, is coloured thereby. Herbert, Temple. Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest. Fate never...heart, Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart. Joanson, London, |ii"/. Yonder he drives — avoid that furious beast ; If he may have his jest, he... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 626 Seiten
...courtiers gaze And turn the varied taunt a thousand ways. Of all the griefs that harass the distressed, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest ; Fate never wounds more deep the generous heait, Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart. Has Heaven reserv'd in pity to the poor, No... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1881 - 638 Seiten
...courtiers gaze And turn the varied taunt a thousand ways. Of all the griefs that harass the distressed, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest ; Fate never wounds more deep the generous heait, Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart. Has Heaven reserv'd in pity to the poor, No... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1881 - 632 Seiten
...courtiers gaze And turn the varied taunt a thousand ways. Of all the griefs that harass the distressed, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest; Fate never wounds more deep the generous heait, Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart. Has Heaven reserv'd in pity to the poor, No... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - 1882 - 926 Seiten
...broken. c. FULLEB— The Holy and Profane States. Jestinj. Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest, Fate never...heart, Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart с/. SAM'L JOHNSON— London. Line 105. Joking decides great things Stronglier and better oft than... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1883 - 782 Seiten
...colored thereby. 2481 Herbert: Temple. Church Porch. St. 39 Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest. Fate never...heart, Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart. 2482 Dr. Johnson : London. Line 156. JESUITS. For none but Jesuits have a mission To preach the faith... | |
 | Cyril L. C. Locke - 1885 - 114 Seiten
...And told me Hubert should put out mine eyes, I would not have believed no tongue but Hubert's. 30. Fate never wounds more deep the generous heart Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart. 31. And as a hare, whom hounds and horn pursue, Pants to the place from whence at first he flew, I... | |
 | John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - 1886 - 428 Seiten
...his language. The following is a fair specimen : — " Of all the griefs that harass the distressed, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest ; Fate never...heart, Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart." 4. OLIVER GOLDSMITH (1728-1774), poet, essayist, historian, and dramatist, was born, at Pallas, in... | |
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