May I (can worse disgrace on manhood fall ?) Be born a Whitehead, and baptized a Paul !" yet I shall never be persuaded to think meanly of the authour of so brilliant and pointed a satire as The Wits and Beaux of Society - Pagina 458door Grace Wharton, Philip Wharton - 1861 - 481 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
| John Bell - 1793 - 612 pagina’s
...Galling thy present friends, and praising those Whom now thy frenzy holds thy greatest foes. 170 C. May I (can worse disgrace on manhood fall ?) Be born a Whitehead * and haptiz'da Paul ; 'This man, by his will, hequeathed his heart to Lord leDupencer, so frequently celebrated... | |
| James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pagina’s
...slighted 'by Johnson, but violently attacked by Churchill, who utters the following imprecation : 't May I (can worse disgrace on manhood fall ?) " Be born a Whitehead, and baptiz'da Paul !" yet I shall never be persuaded to think meanly of the authour of so brilliant and... | |
| James Boswell - 1799 - 640 pagina’s
...White/lead. 145 Johnson, but violently attacked by Churchill, who utters the following imprecation : ' May I (can worse disgrace on manhood fall ?) Be born a Whitehead, and baptiz'da Paul ' !' yet I shall never be persuaded to think meanly of the authour of so brilliant and... | |
| James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pagina’s
...despicable poet.' Johnson, but violently attacked by Churchill, who utters the following imprecation : ' May I (can worse disgrace on manhood fall ?) Be born a Whitehead, and baptiz'da Paul'!' yet I shall never be persuaded to think meanly of the authour of so brilliant and... | |
| James Boswell - 1807 - 514 pagina’s
...slighted by Johnson, but violently attacked by Churchill, who utters the following imprecation : " May I (can worse disgrace on manhood fall ?) " Be born a Whitehead, and baptized a Paul !" yet I shall never be persuaded to think meanly of the auihour of so brilliant and pointed a satire... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 622 pagina’s
...sword, Galling thy present friends, and praising those, Whom now thy frenzy holds thy greatest foes. C. any vicious habit. In politics, and public life, I have made public go baptiz'da Paul ; May I (though to his service deeply tied By sacred oaths, and now by will allied)... | |
| 1817 - 490 pagina’s
...in much esteem, yet it was not uniformly bad. Those who adopt a severe sentence passed by Churchill, in these lines, " May I (can worse disgrace on manhood fall?) Be born a WHITEHEAD and baptised a Paul." * will want nothing else to excite abhorrence; but Churchill has taken too many liberties... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 498 pagina’s
...suffered his small satire and politics to be equally forgotten. Churchill at. tacked him in a couplet, " May I (can worse disgrace on manhood fall) " Be born a Whitehead, and baptized a Paul." But though a libertine like Churchill, he seems not to have been the worse man of the two. Sir John... | |
| James Boswell - 1820 - 442 pagina’s
...slighted by Johnson, but violently attacked by Churchill, who utters the following imprecation : " May I (can worse disgrace on manhood fall '•} " Be born a Whitehead, and baptized a Paul!" yet I shall never be persuaded to think meanly of the author of so brilliant and pointed a satire as"... | |
| James Boswell - 1821 - 394 pagina’s
...slighted by Johnson, but violently attacked by Churchill, who utters the following imprecation : " May I (can worse disgrace on manhood fall ?) Be born a Whitehead, and baptized a Paul !" yet I shall never be persuaded to think meanly of the authour of so brilliant and pointed a satire... | |
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