| Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1774 - 374 pages
...V. 90. Each Jhake his loaded Noddle with the ether, And Brother gravely fmell his Cane with Brother. An Imitation of the following Lines ; One Fool lolls his Tongue out at another, And fhakes his empty Noddle at his Brother. V. 94. Six ccal-b/ack Steeds ' drag'd its flow Length along,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1774 - 374 pages
...Each fliake his loaded Noddle with the ether, . And Brother gravely fmell his Cane with Brother• An Imitation of the following Lines ; One Fool lolls his Tongue out at another, And fhakes his empty Noddle at his Brother. V. 94- Six coal-black Steeds ( drag'd its flow Length along,... | |
| 1801 - 448 pages
...go. Each shake his loaded nodMe with the other •, And brother gravely smell his cane with brother. An imitation of the following lines: " One fool lolls...the General Bill of Mortality, fet forth by Parish Cltrks, from December 15, 1766, to December 16, 1767. Me ended, and forthwith to sight appears A car... | |
| English literature - 1803 - 434 pages
...in a couple of humorous lines, which are part of a translation of a satire in Monsieur Boileau: Thus one fool lolls his tongue out at another, And shakes his empty noddle at his brother. Mr. Hobbes's reflection gives us the reason why the insignificant people abovementioned are stirrers-up... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 416 pages
...couple of humorous lines, which are part of a translation of a satire in monsienr Boileau : ' Thus one fool lolls his tongue out at another, And shakes his empty noddle at his brother.' Mr. Hobbs's reflection gives us the reason why the insignificant people abovementioned are stirrers... | |
| James Beattie - Classical education - 1809 - 406 pages
...prove the truth of the distich, quoted by our author from Dennis, who translates it from Boileau, Thus one fool lolls his tongue out at another, And shakes his empty noddle at his brother. But I cannot see how they should prove, that laughter is owing to pride, or to a sense of our superiority... | |
| Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 pages
...a couple of humourous lines, which are part of a translation of a satire in Monsieur Boileau. Thus one fool lolls his tongue out at another, And shakes his empty noddle at his brother. Mr. Hobbs's reflection gives us the reason why the insignificant people abovementioned are stirrers... | |
| Joseph Addison - English literature - 1811 - 508 pages
...a couple of humourous lines, which are part of a translation of a satire in Monsieur Boileau. Thus one fool lolls his tongue out at another, And shakes his empty noddle at bis brother. Mr. Hobbs's reflection gives us the reason why the insignificant people abovementioned... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1813 - 544 pages
...calls humourous and well-expressed, from Mr. Dennis's translation of a satire of Boileau's : • " Thus one fool lolls his tongue out at another, And shakes his empty noddle at his brother." ' Mistaking this quotation for the performance of sir Richard Steele's promise, our author published... | |
| Nathan Drake - English literature - 1814 - 494 pages
...and well-expressed, from Mr. Dennis's translation of a satire of Boilean's : Thus one fool lolls hit tongue out at another, And shakes his empty noddle at his brother. Mistaking this quotation for the performance of Sir Richard Stcele'i .confessed in a letter to the... | |
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