 Of all the griefs that harass the distrest, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest. Oldham's, though less elegant, is more just : Nothing in poverty so ill is borne, As its exposing men to grinning scorn.  Paul Clifford - Page 44by Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1840 - 368 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...an exquisite remark on the galling meanness and contempt annexed to poverty: JOHNSON'S imitation is, 'Of all the griefs that harass the distrest, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.' OLDHAM'S, though less elegant, is more just : ' Nothing in poverty so ill is borne, As its exposing... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
...exquisite remark on the galling meanness and contempt annexed to poverty : JOHNSON'S imitation is, 1 Of all the griefs that harass the distrest, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.' OLDHAM'S, though less elegant, is more just : ' Nothing in poverty so ill is borne, As its exposing... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 514 pages
...exquisite remark on the galling meanness and contempt annexed to poverty : JOHNSON'S imitation is, " Of all the griefs that harass the distrest, " Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest." * I own it pleased me to find amongst them one trait of the manners of the age in London, in the last... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 466 pages
...exquisite remark on the galling meanness and contempt anoexed to poverty : JOHNSON'S imitation is, " Of all the griefs that harass the distrest, " Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest." OLDHAM'S, though less elegant, is more just ; " Nothing in poverty so ill is borne, " As its exposing... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 394 pages
...exquisite remark on the galling meanness and contempt annexed to poverty: JOHNSON'S imitation is, " Of all the griefs that harass the distrest, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest." OLDHAM'S, though less elegant, is more just ; " Nothing in poverty so ill is borne, As its exposing... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1822 - 508 pages
...is the subject of chap. 14-3, entitled " De damno per -r and has a very appropriate engraving. AC] " Of all the griefs that harass the distrest, " Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest." OLDHAM'S, though less elegant, is more just : " Nothing in poverty so ill is borne, " As its exposing... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 514 pages
...subject of chnp. 143, entitled " De damno per ejecta," and has a very appropriate engraving. AC] " Of all the griefs that harass the distrest, " Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest." OLDHAM'S, though less elegant, is more just: " Nothing in poverty so ill is borne, " As its exposing... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 440 pages
...an exquisite remark on the galling meanness and contempt annexed to poverty. Johnson's imitation is, Of all the griefs that harass the distrest, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest. Oldham's, though less elegant, is more just : Nothing in poverty so ill is borne, As its exposing men... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 602 pages
...of English ridicule, what was some time ago too common a practice in my native city of Edinburgh ! " Of all the griefs that harass the distrest, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest." Oldham's, though less elegant, is more just : " Nothing in poverty so ill is borne, As its exposing... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1831 - 604 pages
...of English ridicule, what was some time ago too common a practice in my native city of Edinburgh ! " Of all the griefs that harass the distrest, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest." Oldham's, though less elegant, is more just : " Nothing in poverty so ill is borne, As its exposing... | |
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