 What? Touch-paper to be sure. What are our poets, take them as they fall, Good, bad, rich, poor, much read, not read at all? Them and their works in the same class you'll find; They are the mere waste-paper of mankind.  The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin, Consisting of Essays, Humorous, Moral ... - Seite 147von Benjamin Franklin - 1839 - 224 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 630 Seiten
...jest, a hint, or look endure, — What is he ? — what 1 Touch-paper, to be sure. What are our poets, take them as they fall, Good, bad, rich, poor, much read, not read at all ? They and their works in the same class you '11 find ; They are the mere waste-paper of mankind. Observe... | |
 | Albert Newton Raub - 1878 - 444 Seiten
...— Touch-paper, to be sure. 9. 10. Observe the maiden, innocently sweet ! She 's fair white paper ! an unsullied sheet, On which the happy man, whom fate...ordains, May write his name, and take her for his pains11. One instance more, and only one, I '11 bring ! 'T is the great man who scorns a little thing... | |
 | Phineas Garrett - 1879 - 784 Seiten
...step awry, Who can'ta jest, or hint, or look endure, — What 's he? What? Touch-paper, to be sure. Them and their works in the same class you'll find...waste-paper of mankind. Observe the maiden, innocently sweet ; She 's fair white paper, an unsullied sheet ; On which the happy man, whom fate ordains, May write... | |
 | John William Kirton - 1880 - 284 Seiten
...jest, or hint, or look endure, What is he ? — what ? — touch-paper to be sure. What are the poets, take them as they fall — Good, bad, rich, poor,...in the same class you'll find ; They are the mere waste paper of mankind. Observe the maiden, innocently sweet — She's fair white paper, an unsullied... | |
 | John Nichol - 1882 - 492 Seiten
...spendthrift race is clenched in one of several stanzas on various sorts of paper — " What are the poets, take them as they fall, Good, bad, rich, poor, much...youll find, They are the mere waste-paper of mankind." Of a somewhat later date, the following more consecutive 1 Compare the advices of Sir Walter Raleigh... | |
 | John Nichol - 1882 - 496 Seiten
...spendthrift race is clenched in one of several stanzas on various sorts of paper — " What are the poets, take them as they fall, Good, bad, rich, poor, much...you'll find, They are the mere waste-paper of mankind." Of a somewhat later date, the following more consecutive 1 Compare the advices of Sir Walter Raleigh... | |
 | 1884 - 780 Seiten
...jest, or hint, or look endure, — What 's he ? What 1 Touch-paper, to be sure. AVhat are our poeta,— take them as they fall, — Good, bad, rich, poor,...of mankind. Observe the maiden, innocently sweet; She 's fair while paper, an unsullied sheet ; On which the happy man, whom fate ordains, May write... | |
 | Eric Sutherland Robertson - 1887 - 204 Seiten
...acquaintance with poets, we know not; but this was his estimate of their genius : " What are the poets, take them as they fall, Good, bad, rich, poor, much...find ; They are the mere waste-paper of mankind." Franklin was born only three years later than Jonathan Edwards ; and the two thinkers form a curious... | |
 | 1891 - 208 Seiten
...want no type his weakness to proclaim While such a thing as fool's cap has a name. What are the poets, take them as they fall, Good, bad, rich, poor, much...works in the same class you'll find; They are the mere waste paper of mankind. Observe the maiden, innocently sweet; She's fair white paper, an unsullied... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - 1894 - 464 Seiten
...can'ta jest, or hint, or look endure, — What 's he? What? Touch-paper, to be sure. What are our poets, take them as they fall, Good, bad, rich, poor, much read, not read at all 7 Them and their works in the same class you'll find; They are the mere waste paper of mankind. Observe... | |
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