 If I have thoughts and can't express 'em, Gibbon shall teach me how to dress 'em In terms select and terse ; Jones teach me modesty and Greek ; Smith, how to think ; Burke, how to speak ; And Beauclerk to converse.  English Book Collectors - Page 242by William Younger Fletcher - 1902 - 448 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Cook - 1805 - 238 pages
...thirty years thou should'st review, And charm us thirty more. If I have thoughts, and can't express 'cm, 'Gibbon shall teach me how to dress 'em In terms select and terse ; Jones teach me modesty and G reek ; Smith how (o think, Burke how to speak, And Hcauclerc to converse. * Sir Joshua Ucuiolds.... | |
 | John Stark (of Edinburgh.) - Scotland - 1805 - 452 pages
...preserved by Dr. Barnard, inhiswellknown " Verses, addressed to sir Joshua Reynolds and his friend*." If I have thoughts, and can't express "em, Gibbon shall teach me how to dress 'CHI In words select and terse ; Jones teach me modesty and Greek, Smith how to think, Burke how. to... | |
 | History - 1807 - 750 pages
...preserved by Dr. Barnard, in his well known " Verses addressed to sir Joshua Reynolds and his friends :" If I have thoughts, and can't express 'em, Gibbon shall teach me how to dress 'cm In words select and terse : Jones tcacli me modesty and Greek, Smith how to think, Burke how to... | |
 | Charles Snart - Poetry - 1808 - 506 pages
...thou should'st review, And charm us thirty more. If I have thoughts and can't express 'em, Gibbons shall teach me how to dress 'em, In terms select and...Greek, Smith how to think, Burke how to speak, And Beauclerc to converse. Let Johnson teach me how to place, In fairest light, each borrowed grace, From... | |
 | 1811 - 530 pages
...rudeness of Johnson. If I have thoughts, and can't express them, Let Gibbon teach me how to dress them In terms select and terse; Jones teach me modesty...— Burke how to speak, And Beauclerk to converse. In Hardy's Life of Lord Charlemont, lately published in England, the biographer has introduced some... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1811 - 620 pages
...preserved by Dr Barnard, in his well-known " Verses addressed to Sir Joshua Rey•" nolds and his friends." If I have thoughts, and can't express 'em, Gibbon shall teach me how to dress 'em In words select and terse : Jones teach me modesty and Greek, Smith how to think, Bnrkc how to speak,... | |
 | James Northcote - Art - 1819 - 382 pages
...* "* * « • ,If I have thoughts, and can't express them, Gibbon shall teach me how to dress them, In terms select and terse ; Jones teach me modesty...think, Burke how to speak, And Beauclerk to converse. Let Johnson teach me how to place, In fairest light, each boi row'd grace, ti ! .•«':. 'i From him... | |
 | John Bull - English wit and humor - 1825 - 782 pages
...could we read thee backward too. Last thirty years thou should'st review. And charm us thirty more. If I have thoughts, and can't express 'em, Gibbon...Jones teach me modesty and Greek ; Smith how to think, Bi-ikc how to speak, And Beauclerc to converse. Let Johnson teach me how to place In fairest light... | |
 | Richard Ryan - Poetry - 1826 - 320 pages
...could we read thee backwards too, Last thirty years thou should'st review, And charm us thirty more. If I have thoughts and can't express 'em, Gibbon shall...Greek, Smith how to think, Burke how to speak, And Beauclerc to converse. Let Johnson teach me how to place In fairest light each borrow'd grace : From... | |
 | Richard Ryan - Poetry - 1826 - 320 pages
...could we read thee backwards too, Last thirty years thou should'st review, And charm us thirty more. If I have thoughts and can't express 'em, Gibbon shall...and Greek, Smith how to think, Burke how to speak, AndBeauclercto converse. Let Johnson teach me how to place In fairest light each borrow'd grace : From... | |
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