 ... choice, not want of wit; Whose foppery, without the help of sense, Could ne'er have rose to such an excellence. Nature's as lame in making a true fop As a philosopher; the very top And dignity of folly we attain By studious search and labour of the...  The invisible spy, by Explorabilis - Page 232by Eliza Haywood - 1773Full view - About this book
 | Edward Bysshe - English language - 1710 - 620 pages
...making a true Fop, As a Philosopher : The very Top And Dignity of Folly we attain By ftudious Search and Labour of the Brain ; By Obfervation, Counfel,...made a Coxcomb worth a Groat : We owe that Name to Induftry and Arts ; An eminent Fool mull be a Man of Parts. For Fools are double Fools, endeavouring... | |
 | John Wilmot Earl of Rochester - English drama (Tragedy) - 1714 - 344 pages
...very Top And Dignity of Folly, we artain By ftudious Search, and Labour of the Brain : By Obfervarion, Counfel, and deep Thought :. God never made a Coxcomb worth a Groat. We owe that Name to Induftry and Arts; An Eminent Fool muft be a Fool of Pates. And fuch a one was ffic ; who had turn'd... | |
 | Charles Gildon - Criticism - 1718 - 490 pages
...Phllofopher ; the very Top, And Dignity of Folly, we attain By ftudiem Search, and Labour of the Brain j By Obfervation, Counfel, and deep Thought ; God never...made a Coxcomb worth a Groat ; We owe that Name to IndufW and Arti ; . , An eminent Fool muft be a M»n of Parti. R>eli> FOREST. There ftood a Foreft... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1746 - 306 pages
...ridiculous, and lay out their fenfe to appear a mafter-piece in buffoonery. Folly we attain, By (ludious fearch and labour of the brain, By obfervation, counfel,...made a coxcomb worth a groat : We owe that name to induftry and arts ; An eminent foci muft be a man of parts. ROCHESTER. No man is free from fometimes... | |
 | Eliza Fowler Haywood - 1755 - 336 pages
...; the very top * And dignity of folly we attain sfeai ' Byjludiousjearch, and labour of the Irain ; By obfervation, counfel, and deep thought ; God never...made a coxcomb worth a groat, We owe that name to induftry and arts : An eminent fool muft he a man of parts. ' THE various motions of the eyes is an... | |
 | Eliza Fowler Haywood - English fiction - 1755 - 332 pages
...dignity of folly, we attain « By ftudious fearch, and labour of the ' brain; « By obfervation, council, and deep « thought; « God never made a coxcomb worth a « groat: « We owe that name to induffry and' * arts; ' An eminent fool mult be a Man of * parts. A perfon may be endow'd with great... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 258 pages
...And dignity of folly we attain By ftudious fearch and labour of the brain, By obfervation, counitl, and deep thought : God never made a coxcomb worth a groat ; We owe that name to tnduftry and arts : An eminent fool muft be a fool of parts, And fuch a one was flie, who had turn'd... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 248 pages
...excellence : Nature 's as lame in making a true fop, • As a philofopher ; the very top VOL. XV. D And And dignity of folly we attain By ftudious fearch...made a coxcomb worth a groat ; We owe that -name to indu'ftry and arts : An eminent fool muft be a fool of parts, And fuch a one was fhe, who had turn'd... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 842 pages
...lame in making a true fop, As a philofopher ; the very top And dignity of folly we attain By (bulimis fearch and labour of the brain, By obfervation, counfel,...made a coxcomb worth a groat ; We owe that name to induftry and arts : An eminent fool muft be a fool of parts, And fuch a one was file,' who had turned... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 654 pages
...And dignity of folly we attain By studious search and labour of the brain, T3y observation, counsel, and deep thought: God never made a coxcomb worth a groat ; We on e that name to industry and arts : An eminent fool must be a fool of parts, And such a one was she,... | |
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