 He says but little, and that little said Owes all its weight, like loaded dice, to lead. His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock it never is at home: 'Tis like a parcel sent...  Poems - Page 159by William Cowper - 1803 - 363 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Caroline Howard Gilman - 1859 - 416 pages
...of this world roll off, and leave us alone with God! CHAPTER IV. MB. JOSEPH BATES, THE YANKEE LAD. " A shallow brain behind a serious mask, An oracle within an empty cusk, He says but liltle, and, that little said, Owes all its weight, like loaded dice, to lead." Cowper's... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...FORESIGHT. POP— Description of a. A graver coxcomb we may sometimes see, '•(ale as absurd, tho' not so light as he : A shallow brain behind a serious mask, An oracle within an empty cask ; Tir: solemn fop ; significant and fudge ; A f jol with judges, amongst foole a judge. He isys but... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1863 - 780 pages
...talk, saying — " The sight's enough ; no need to .smell a beau." The solemn fop is next, — "With shallow brain, behind a serious mask, An oracle within an empty cask ; Who says but little — and that little said, Owes all its weight, like loaded dice, to lead." The... | |
 | William Cowper - 1864 - 622 pages
...cogence, we may say, Why Mich a one should keep himself w&y. A graver coxcomb we m&y sometimes see lood, And drown him in her dry and dusty gulfs. What...whose fast anchor' d isle Moved not, while theirs : it< weight, like loaded dice, to lead. His wit invites you by his looks to come, Hut when you knock... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1864 - 638 pages
...countenance and gesture.' Cowper in his Conversation has well described a man of this class : — ' A shallow brain behind a serious mask, An Oracle within...budge ; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge ; i Difference. A subtle distinction. * Blanch. To erade. ' A man horribly cheats his own soul, who... | |
 | 1864 - 520 pages
...The idol only has to keep close and scrupulously preserve his minuteness concealed from the world. A shallow brain behind a serious mask, An oracle within an empty cask, The solemn fog ; significant and budge ; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge, He says but little, and, that... | |
 | William Cowper - 1866 - 720 pages
...cogence, we may say, Why such an one should keep himself away. A graver coxcomb wo may sometimes see, Quite as absurd though not so light as he: A shallow...within an empty cask, The solemn fop ; significant and budge;1 A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge ; He says but little, and that little said Owes all... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 pages
...hard if all is false that I advance, A fool must now and then be right by chance. Coicrer, Conc.95. A shallow brain behind a serious mask, An oracle within an empty cask ; He says but little, and that little said Owes all its weight, like loaded dice, to lead. His wit... | |
 | 1879 - 692 pages
...gentleman," whose " Odoriferous attempts to please Perhaps might prosper with a swarm of bees " ; And the " Shallow brain behind a serious mask, An oracle within an empty cask " ; The retailers of sick experiences — whose discourse we need not quote ; — and, finally, the perversely... | |
 | William Cowper - 1870 - 574 pages
...cogence, we may say, 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...fools a judge. He says but little, and that little aaid, Owes all its weight, like loaded dice, to lead. His wit invites you by his looks to come, But... | |
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