 | Benjamin Franklin - 1844 - 600 páginas
...pertinent, and true ; Methinks a genius might the plan pursue. I, (can you pardon my presumption?) I — No wit, no genius, — yet for once will try. Various...lace, — Nice as a band-box were his dwelling-place; He 's the gilt paper, which apart you store, And lock from vulgar hands in the 'scrutoire. VOL. II.... | |
 | Charles Henry Timperley - 1845 - 234 páginas
...pertinent, and true, Methinks a genius might the plan pursue. I (can you pardon my presumption), I — No wit, no genius, yet for once will try. Various...Men are as various : and, if right I scan, Each sort afpaprr represents some man. L Pray note the fop— half powder and half lace — Nice as a bandbox... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1846 - 320 páginas
...pertinent, and true ; Methinks a genius might the plan pursue. I (can you pardon my presumption ?) I — No wit, no genius, yet for once will try. Various...half lace, Nice as a band-box were his dwelling-place : He's the gilt paper, which apart you store, And lock from vulgar hands in the 'scrutoire. Mechanics,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1846 - 250 páginas
...pertinent, and true ; Methinks a genius might the plan pursue. I.— can you pardon my presumption ? — I, No wit, no genius, yet for once will try. Various...note the fop — half powder and half lace, Nice as a hand-hox were his dwelling place ; He's the gilt paper, which apart you store, And lock from vulgar... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1848 - 292 páginas
...pertinent, and true ; Methinks a genius might the plan pursue. I (can you pardon my presumption ?) I — No wit, no genius, yet for once will try. Various...half lace, Nice as a band-box were his dwelling-place : He's the gilt paper, which apart you store, And luck from vulgar Iftnds in the 'scrutoire. Mechanics,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1848 - 312 páginas
...a genius might the plan pursue. I (can you pardon my presumption), I — No wit, no genius, yet tor once will try. Various the papers various wants produce,...some man, Pray note the fop — half powder and half laceNice as a band-box were his dwelling-place : He's the gilt paper, which apart you store, And lock... | |
 | Caroline Howard Gilman - 1848 - 320 páginas
...every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest. Love's Labor Lost. 8. Pray note the fop — half powder and half lace, Nice as a bandbox is his dwelling place 1 He's the gilt paper which apart you store, And lock from vulgar hands in your... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1849 - 322 páginas
...pertinent, and true ; Methinks a genius might the plan pursue. I (can you pardon my presumption ?) I — No wit, no genius, yet for once will try. Various...right I scan, Each sort of paper represents some man. ESSAYS. Mechanics, servants, fanners, and so forth, Are copy paper, of inferior worth ; Less prized,... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1853 - 492 páginas
...elegance, and use. Men are as various ; and, if right I scan, Each sort of paper represents some man. 3. Pray, note the fop, half powder, and half lace ; Nice, as a band-box were his dwelling place ; He 'a the gilt-paper, which, apart you store, And lock from vulgar hands in the +scrutoir.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 páginas
...and true ; Methink-3 a genius might the plan pursue. 1, — can you pardon my presumption ? — I, No wit, no genius, yet for once will try. Various...half powder and half lace, Nice as a bandbox were his dwelling place ; He 's the yilt paper, which apart you store, And lock from vulgar hands in the 'scrutoire.... | |
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Where still, as opening sense her dictates wrote, Fair virtue put a seal, or vice a blot. The thought was happy, pertinent, and true; Methinks a genius might the plan pursue. I (can you pardon my presumption?) I — No wit, no genius, yet for once will... 
