 | Barclay Mounteney - 1824 - 586 pages
...the assertion of the Editor is founded on passion, and not on facts : " Virtuous and vicious ev'ry man must be, Few in th' extreme, but all in the degree:...The rogue and fool, by fits, is fair and wise ; And e'en the best, by fits, what they despise*." And, now that we are about to take our leave of the Editor,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 pages
...natures shrink at with affright, The hard inhabitant contends is right. 230 Virtuous and vicious ev'ry Man must be, Few in th' extreme, but all in the degree...The rogue and fool by fits is fair and wise ; And ev'n the best, by fits, what they despise. COMMENTARY. Ver. 231. Virtuous and vicious ev'ry Man must... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1824 - 430 pages
...natures shrink at with affright, The hard inhabitant contends is right. 230 Virtuous and vicious ev'ry Man must be, Few in th' extreme, but all in the degree...The rogue and fool by fits is fair and wise ; And ev'n the best, by fits, what they despise. COMMENTARY. Ver. 231. Virtuous and vicious ev'ry Man must... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...happier natures shrink at with affright, The hard inhabitant eontends is right. Virtuous and vieious ; ; = > < ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ev'n the best, by fits, what they despise. 'Tis but by parts we follow good or ill ; For, viee or virtue,... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...affright, The hard Inhabitant contends is right. Virtuous and vicious every man must be, Few in the extreme, but all in the degree : The rogue and fool by fits is fair and wise, And ev'n the best by fits what they despise. 'Tis but by parts we follow good or ill ; For, vice or virtue,... | |
 | Anthologies - 1827 - 290 pages
...seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. * * * * * Virtuous and vicious every man must be, Few in th'...rogue and fool, by fits is fair and. wise, ., And e'en the best, by fits what they despise. ***** Fear to the statesman, rashness to the chief, To kings... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Thayer - Gambling - 1828 - 316 pages
...and more tender than either. * SACRED DRAMAS, | PAKADIIB LOST THE GAMESTERS. 217 GHAFTER XXVIL • Virtuous and vicious^ every man must be, • Few in th" extreme, but all in a degree ; • The rogue and fool, by fits, are fair and wise, ' And e'en the best, by turns, what... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1829 - 420 pages
...happily he wrought, Each found the likeness in his thought. - ' VI. — Diversity in the Human Character. VIRTUOUS and vicious every man must be, Few in th'...but all in the degree ; The rogue and fool by fits are fair and wise, And e'en the best, by fits what they despise. 'Tis but by part we follow good or... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 436 pages
...Wimble is as merry as any of them, and shews a thousand roguish tricks on these occasions. Addison. The rogue and fool by fits is fair and wise, And even the best, by fits, what they despise. Pope. The roguerti of alcnymy, And we, the bubbled fools, Spend all our present stock in hopes of golden... | |
 | Jabez Burns - 1829 - 378 pages
...affright, The hard inhabitant contends is right. Virtuous and vicious every man must be, Few in the' extreme, but all in the degree ; The rogue and fool by fits are fair and wise ; And e'en the best, by fits, what they despise. ""Tis but by parts we follow good... | |
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Ev'n those who dwell beneath its very zone, Or never feel the rage, or never own ; What happier natures shrink at with affright, The hard inhabitant contends is right. Virtuous and vicious ev'ry man must be, Few in th... 
