 With every wild absurdity comply, And view each object with another's eye ; To shake with laughter ere the jest they hear, To pour at will the counterfeited tear ; And, as their patron hints the cold or heat, To shake in dogdays, in December sweat. How,...  The Poetical Works ...: With the Life of the Author - Sida 58efter Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 132 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Henry Headley - 1810 - 236 sidor
...to cloak the vice ; * Grin when he laughs, &c.] So Johnson : To shake with laughter ere the jest you hear, To pour at will the counterfeited tear: And...or heat, To shake in dog-days, in December sweat. And as to purpose likewise it shall fall, To press the virtue that it may not rise ; As drunkenness... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 656 sidor
...With er'ry wiW absurdity comply. And view/ each abject with another's eye ; To shake with laughter ere the jest they hear, To pour at will the counterfeited...patron hints the cold or heat, To shake in dog-days, inDecemberswe.it. 24 How, when competitors like I bese coutend, Can surly virtue hope to fix. a frieud... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 202 sidor
...With every wild absurdity comply, And view each object with another's eye ; To shake with laughter ere the jest they hear, To pour at will the counterfeited...without a blush, without a smile ; Exalt each trifle, every vice adore, Vour taste in snuff, your judgment in a whore Can Balbo's eloquence applaud, and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - 1811 - 250 sidor
...counterfeited tear ; And as their patron to each pole may turn, To shake in dog-days, in December burn. How, when competitors like these contend, Can surly...beguile,. And lie without a blush, without a smile ; r Exalt each trifle, every view extol, Your taste in snuff, your judgment in a doll. •For arts... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 154 sidor
...part; Praetis'd their master's notions to embrace, Repeat his maxims, and reflect his face; With every wild absurdity comply, And view its object with another's...without a blush, without a smile; Exalt each trifle, every vice adore, Your taste in snuff, your judgment in a •whore— Can Balbo's eloquence applaud,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 368 sidor
...With ev'ry wild absurdity comply, And view each object with another's eye ; To shake with laughter ere the jest they hear, To pour at will the counterfeited...Exalt each trifle, ev'ry vice adore, Your taste in snuflfj your judgment in a whore ; Can Balbo's eloquence applaud, and swear He gropes his breeches... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 314 sidor
...With ev'ry wild absurdity comply, And view each object with another's eye; To shake with laughter ere the jest they hear, To pour at will the counterfeited...beguile, And lie without a blush, without a smile: Kxalt each trifle, ev'ry vice adore, Your taste in snuff, your judgment in a whore; Can Balbo's eloquence... | |
 | 1822 - 292 sidor
...With every wild absurdity comply, And view each object with another's eye; To shake with laughter ere the jest they hear,, To pour at will the counterfeited...without a blush, without a smile; Exalt each trifle, every vice adore, Your taste in snuft', your judgment in a whore; Can Balbo's eloquence applaud, and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 436 sidor
...With ev'ry wild absurdity comply, And view each object with another's eye ; To shake with laughter ere the jest they hear, To pour at will the counterfeited...And, as their patron hints the cold or heat, To shake iu dog-days, in December sweat. e) How, when competitors like these contend, Can surely virtue hope... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1824 - 406 sidor
...With every wild absurdity comply, And view each object with another's eye ; To shake with laughter ere the jest they hear, To pour at will the counterfeited...without a blush, without a smile ; Exalt each trifle, every vice adore, Your taste in snuff, your judgment in a whore ; Can Balbo's eloquence applaud, and... | |
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