 Why such a one should keep himself away. A graver coxcomb we may sometimes see, Quite as absurd, though not so light as he: A shallow brain behind a serious mask, An oracle within an empty cask, The solemn fop; significant and budge; A fool with judges,...  Friends and Fortune: A Moral Tale - Página 155por Anna Harriet Drury - 1849 - 240 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | William Cowper - 1808 - 360 páginas
...An oracle within an empty cask, The solemn fop ; significant and budge ; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge ; He says but little, and that little said Owes all it's weight, like loaded dice, to lead. His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock... | |
 | William Cowper - 1810 - 422 páginas
...An oracle within an empty cask, The solemn fop; significant and budge; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge; He says but little, and that little said Owes all it's weight, like loaded dice, to lead. His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock... | |
 | William Cowper - 1810 - 390 páginas
...An oracle within an empty cask, The solemn fop ; significant and budge ; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge; He says but little, and that little said Owes all it's weight, like loaded dice, to lead. His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock... | |
 | William Cowper - 1812 - 396 páginas
...An oracle within an empty cask, The solemn fop; significant and budge; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge; He says but little, and that little said Owes all it's weight, like loaded dice, to lead. His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock... | |
 | 1837 - 604 páginas
...humbug, and all his doctor's stuff." Mr. Gowland, indeed, fully came up to Cowper's description of " The solemn fop, significant and budge, A fool with judges, among fools a judge ;" and as Sir George's mother-wit made him rather belong to the class of judges, it was easily to be... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 278 páginas
...An oracle within an empty cask. The solemn fop ; significant and budge ; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge ; He says but little, and that little said Owes all it's weight, like loaded dice, to lead. His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 450 páginas
...An oracle within an empty cask, The solemn fop ; significant and budge ; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge ; He says but little, and that little said Owes al| its weight, like loaded dice, to lead. His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock,... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 páginas
...An oracle within an empty cask, The solemn fop ; significant and budge ; A tool with judges, amongst fools a judge; He says but little, and that little said Owes all it's weight, like loaded dice, to lead. His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock... | |
 | William Cowper, Henry Stebbing - 1854 - 850 páginas
...oracle within $.n empty cask, The solemn fop ; significant and budge ; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge ; He says but little, and that little said Owes all its weight, lik« loaded dice, to lead. His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock, it never... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 612 páginas
...An oraele within an empty eask, The solemn fop ; signifieant and budge ; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge ; He says but little, and that little said Owes all its weight, like loaded diee, to lead. His wit invites yon by his looks to eome, But when you knoek it never is at home. Cowper.... | |
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