 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 278 pages
...ridicule, no doubt, i05 A fool in fafhion, but a fool that 's out. His paffion for abfurdity 's fo ftrong, He cannot bear a rival in the wrong ; Though wrong the mode, comply ; more fenfe is fhewn In wearing others' follies, than your oivn. lze If what is out of fafhion moft you prize,... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 1036 pages
...ridicule, no dov.bt, A fuel in fafiiion, but a foo! that's out. His paflion for abfurdiij-'s lo ftror.g, He cannot bear a rival in the wrong ; Though wrong the mode, coir.ply ; more fenfe is fliown In wearing ttltri" foUits, than your CV.-H. If what is <.ut of falhion... | |
 | Edward Young - English poetry - 1805 - 232 pages
...surprise them in the right ; If they by change blurt out, ere well aware, A swan is white, or Q y is fair. Nothing exceeds in ridicule, no doubt, A fool in fashion,...absurdity's so strong, He cannot bear a rival in the wrong. Tho* wrong the mode, comply : more sense is shewn In wearing others' follies than your own. If what... | |
 | Cabinet - 1808 - 524 pages
...in the right; If they by change blurt out, ere well aware, A swan is white, or Queensberry is fair. Nothing exceeds in ridicule, no doubt, A fool in fashion,...is shown In wearing other's follies, than your own^ If what is out of fashion most you prize, Methinks you should endeavour to be wise. But what in oddness... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...or Quecnsberry is fair. Nothing exceeds in ridicule, no doubt, A fool rn fashion, but a fool that 's out , His passion for absurdity's so strong, He cannot bear a rival in the wrong. Tho'wrongthemode,comply;morcsenseisshowil In wearing others' follies than your own. If what is out... | |
 | Edward Young - Drama - 1811 - 294 pages
...them in the right ,• If they by chance blurt out, ere well aware, A swan is white, or QY is fair. L Nothing exceeds in ridicule, no doubt, A fool in fashion, but a fool that's out, His passion for absurdity so strong, He cannot bear a rival in the wrong ; Tho' wrong the mode, comply ; more sense... | |
 | mrs. Purcell - 1820 - 822 pages
...stifled g^oan, muf natfred " Exit thte arbiter 'etegatotiarum of " Ballanaghiera." VOL. I. CHAPTER V. ' Nothing exceeds in ridicule no doubt A fool in fashion,...that's out, His passion for absurdity's so strong, That what in oddness can be more sublime Than L , the foremost toyman of his time ? His nice ambition... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 358 pages
...in the right ; If they by chance blurt out, ere well aware, A swan is white, or Queensberry is fair. Nothing exceeds in ridicule, no doubt, A fool in fashion, but a fool that 's out. His passion for absurdity 's so strong, He cannot bear a rival in the wrong ; Though wrong... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 270 pages
...in the right; If they by chance blurt out, ere well aware, A swan is white, or Queensberry3 is fair. Nothing exceeds in ridicule, no doubt, A fool in fashion, but a fool that's out ; His passion for absurdity 's so strong, He cannot bear a rival in the wrong. Though wrong the mode, comply : more sense... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1824 - 406 pages
...the right ; If they by chance blurt out, ere well aware, A swan is white, or Queensberry* is fair. Nothing exceeds in ridicule, no doubt, A fool in fashion,...rival in the wrong. Though wrong the mode, comply : mere sense is shown In wearing others' follies than your own. If what is out of fashion most you... | |
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Nothing exceeds in ridicule, no doubt, A fool in fashion, but a fool that's out, His passion for absurdity's so strong, He cannot bear a rival in the wrong ; Though wrong the mode, comply ; more sense is shown In wearing others 
