 | John Nichols - Authors, English - 1815 - 872 pages
...suis qu'un docteur.' ' If, this gay Favourite lost, they yet can live, A tear to Selwyn let the Graces give \ With rapid kindness teach Oblivion's pall O'er...lose. Twas SOCIAL WIT; which, never kindling strife, Blaz'd in the small, sweet courtesies of life: Those little sapphires round the diamond shone, Lending... | |
 | John Nichols - Authors, English - 1815 - 866 pages
...kindness teach Oblivion's pall O'er the sunk foihles of the man to fail ; And fondly dictate to a fiuthful Muse The prime distinction of the Friend they lose. Twas SOCIAL WIT; which, never kindling strife, J31u7.'d in the small, sweet courtesies of life : Those little sapphires round the diamond shone, landing... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1840 - 616 pages
...appeared at the time :— " If, this gay Fav'rite lost, they yet can live, A tear to Selwyn let the Graces give ! With rapid kindness teach Oblivion's pall O'er...— 'Twas Social Wit ; which, never kindling strife, Blaz'd in the small, sweet courtesies of life ; Those little sapphires round the diamond shone, Lending... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - Periodicals - 1851 - 644 pages
...knew him : ' IT, this gny favorite lost, they yet can live, A tear to HKLWVN let th« GRATES Rive ; With rapid kindness teach oblivion's pall O'er the...Muse The prime distinction of the friend they lose. 'Twos social wit, which, never kindling strii'o, Blazed in the ?mnll, sweet courtesies of lile ; Those... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1875 - 376 pages
...can live, A tear to Solwyn let the Graces give ! With rapid kindness teach oblivion's pall O'er tho sunk foibles of the man to fall ; And fondly dictate to a faithful Muso Tho prime distinction of tho friend they lose. 'Twas social wit, which, never kindling strife,... | |
 | John Fyvie - Great Britain - 1909 - 418 pages
...periodicals : — " If, this gay favourite lost, they yet can live, A tear to Selwyn let the Graces give I With rapid kindness teach Oblivion's pall O'er the...Muse The prime distinction of the friend they lose. "I'was social wit, which, never kindling strife. Blazed in the small, sweet courtesies of life ; Those... | |
 | 1844 - 768 pages
...published soon after his death, in which the Graces are invoked to fulfil several appropriate duties, " And fondly dictate to a faithful Muse The prime distinction of the friend they lose. 'T was social wit, which, never kindling strife, Blazed in the small sweet courtesies of life." Had... | |
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With rapid kindness teach Oblivion's pall O'er the sunk foibles of the man to fall -, And fondly dictate to a faithful Muse The prime distinction of the Friend they lose. Twas SOCIAL WIT; which, never kindling strife, Blaz'd in the small, sweet courtesies... 