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| John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...Nay, fly to altars, there they'll talk you dead ; For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. 6.'5 Distrustful sense with modest caution speaks, It still looks home, and short excursions makes; But rattling nonsense in full vollies breaks, And never shock'd, and never turn'd aside, Hursts out,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1804 - 236 pages
...Nay, fly to altars, there they'll talk you dead ; For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. *~ 62S Distrustful sense with modest caution speaks, It still looks home, and short excursions makes ; But rattling nonsense in full vollies breaks, And never shock'd, and never turn'd aside, Bursts out,... | |
| Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1807 - 316 pages
...No place so sacred from such fops is harr'd, Nor is Paul's Church more safe than Paul's Churchyard : Distrustful sense with modest caution speaks, It still looks home, and short excursions makes But rattling nonsense in full vollies hreaks, And never shock'd, and never turn'd aside, Bursts out,... | |
| Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...: Nay, fly to altars ; there they'll talk yon dead ; For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. Distrustful sense with modest caution speaks, It still looks home, and short excursions makes ; But rattling nonsense in full vollies breaks, And never shock'd, and never turn' d aside, Bursts... | |
| Eaton Stannard Barrett - Great Britain - 1809 - 170 pages
...speedy K 2 and soon," and actually delivers it, with not more than the usual proportion of blunders. " Distrustful sense with modest caution speaks, It still looks home, and short excursions makes ; But rattling nonsense in full vollies breaks, And never shock'd, and never turn'd aside, Bursts out,... | |
| Eaton Stannard Barrett - 1809 - 458 pages
...speedy and soon," and actually delivers it, with not more than the usual proportion of blunders. " Distrustful sense with modest caution speaks, It still looks home, and short excursions makes ; But rattling nonsense in full vollies breaks, And never shock'd, and never turn'd aside, Bursts out,... | |
| Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 pages
...ChurchNay, fly to altars, there they 'II talk you dead; for fools rush in where angels fear to tread. 625 Distrustful sense with modest caution speaks, it still looks home, and short excursions makes; but rattling nonsense in full vollies breaks, and never shock'd, and never turn'd aside, bursts out,... | |
| Lindley Murray - Readers - 1810 - 262 pages
...destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize. Sense and Modesty connected. Distrustful sense with modest caution speaks ; It still looks home, and short excursions makes ; But rattling nonsense in full volleys breaks. Moral Diteifiline Salutary. Heav'n gives us friends... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 pages
...ChurchNay, fly to altars, there they '11 talk yon dead; for fools rush in where angels fear to tread. 625 Distrustful sense with modest caution speaks, it still looks home, and short excursions makes; but rattling nonsense in full vollies breaks, and never shock'd, and never turn'd aside, bursts out,... | |
| Horace - Criticism - 1812 - 198 pages
...Nay, fly to altars, there they'll talk you dead; For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. 6£5 Distrustful sense with modest caution speaks, It still looks home, and short excursions makes; But rattling nonsense in full vollies breaks, And never shock'd, and never turn'd aside, Bursts out,... | |
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