 | Eustace Budgell - 1732 - 314 páginas
...The 'Difpenfary, which came out foon after, has the following Lines : j " So Diamonds take a Lujtre from their Foil; " And to a Bentley 'tis we owe a Boyle. THE Do&or had fome Waggs, who were ' his Enemies even in Cambridge : They drew his Pi&urein the Hands... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 450 páginas
...like ill paintings, are allow'd, 75 To let off, and to recommend the good. So diamonds, take a luftre from their foil ; And to a Bentley 'tis, we owe a Boyle. .-F ConfiJcr Confider-well the talent you poflefs ; To ftrive to make it more, 'would make it lefs... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - 1783 - 682 páginas
...woodcocka. Dr. Garth, likewife, has thefe memorable lines ID hit Difpenfarv : So diamonds take a laRre from their foil, And to a Bentley 'tis we owe a Boyle. • Bat all men of letters are now agreed, that Dr. Bentley has greatly the advantage in point of argument,... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 358 páginas
...like ill paintings, are allow'd, 75 To fet off, and to recommend the good. So diamonds take a luftre from their foil ; And to a Bentley 'tis we owe a Boyle. VOL. XXVIII. F Confider well the talent you paffefs ; To ftrive to make it more, would make it lefs... | |
 | 1795 - 846 páginas
...like ill painting!, are allow'd, To fet off, and to recommend ihe good. So diamonds take л luftrc from their foil; And to a Bentley 'tis we owe a Boyle. Confider well the talent you poflefs ; To drive to make, it more, would make it left : And recollect... | |
 | 1830 - 622 páginas
...Dispensary, and to compare the partial estimate of contemporaries with the mature decision of posterity. So diamonds take a lustre from their foil, And to a Bentley 'tis we owe a Boyle. But it is only by himself that an author can be written down. A confederacy of wit and fashion may,... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1806 - 796 páginas
...however, were not published before 1 69 9. Garth mentioned both the oppo' nents in his Dispensary . " So diamonds take a lustre from their foil, And to a Bentley 'tis we owe a Boyle !" Some of the wicked wits, even in his own university, drew the Doctor's picture, with the guards... | |
 | Mark Noble - 1806 - 536 páginas
...have a fling at the great critic, in his popular poem of the " Dispensary," in the well-known lines, " So diamonds take a lustre from their foil, " And to a Bentley 'tis we owe a Boyle :" yet it may be truly said both of him and Swift, who opposed him also, in prose, that " Telum " iinbelle... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 620 páginas
...expect a Juvenal. Ill lines, but like ill paintimrs, areallow'd, To set off, and to recommend the good. So diamonds take a lustre from their foil ; And to a Bentley Ч is we owe a Boyle. " Consider well the talent you'possess ; To strive to make it more, would make... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 448 páginas
...another occasion, Garth thus compliments his antagonist, at his expence, in the following lines : v So diamonds take a lustre from their foil, And to a Bentley 'tis we owe a Bovle. Swift too, whose patron, Temple, did not escape some touches ' of Bentley's lash, has retaliated... | |
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Garth thus compliments his antagonist, at his expense, in the following lines : So diamonds take a lustre from their foil, And to a Bentley 'tis we owe a Boyle... 
