 | Benjamin Franklin - 1821 - 232 pages
...BUSY-BODY^-So. U. From Tuesday, February 4, to Tuesday, February 11, 1728—9. OH YULGAR DKRISIOK. All fools have still an itching to deride, And fain would be upon the laughing side. — Pope. MONSIEUR Rochefoucault tells us somewhere in his Memoirs, that the prince of Conde delighted... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 356 pages
...BUSY-BODY.— No. II. From Tuesday, February 4, to Tuesday, February 11,1728—9. ON VULGAR DERISION. All fools have still an itching to deride, And fain would be upon the langhing side. — Pope. MONSIEUR Eochefoucanlt tells us somewhere in his Memoirs, that the prince... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 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 Maevius scribble in Apollo's spite, There are who judge still worse than he can write. Some have... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 426 pages
...own defence : Each burns alike, who can, or cannot write, 30 Or with a Rival's, or a Eunuch's spite. All fools have still an itching to deride, And fain would be upon the laughing side. If Msevius scribble in Apollo's spite, There are, who judge still worse than he can write. Some have... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1823 - 310 pages
...BUSY-BODY, ~THE BUSY-BODY.— No. II. From Tuesday, February 4, to Tuesday, February 1 1, 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 Conde delighted... | |
 | English essays - 1823 - 536 pages
...at the expense of others, even when we are furnishing them with similar occasions for mirth. " Most fools have still an itching to deride, And fain would be upon the laughing side." But as this is an eminence which few only can ascend, and which none can occupy long, observation should... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...own defence : Each burns alike, who can, or cannot write, Or, with a rival's, or an eunuch's spite. iefs If Ma?viuD scribble in Apollo's spite, There are who judge still worse than he can write. Some have... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 404 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 Maevius scribble in Apollo's spite, There are, who judge still worse than he can write. Some have... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 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 Maevius scribble in Apollo's spite, There are, who judge still worse than he can write. Some have... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 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 laughing side. If Msevins scribble in Apollo's spite, There are who judge still worse than he can write. Some have... | |
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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... 
