...glace. Le lord Chesterfield lui prêta son crayon, dont la tête était de diamant ; et Pope écrivit : Accept a miracle instead of wit See two dull lines with Stanhope's pencil writ.** * Ainsi la petite épigramme nous amuse et nous charme par son esprit en miniature. ** Accepter un...

...Should you even write as ill as you can, your letters would be published as curiosities : ' Behold a miracle ! instead of wit, ' See two dull lines with Stanhope's pencil writ." He gave us an entertaining account of Bet Flint, a woman of the town, who, with some eccentrick talents...

...Should you even write as ill as you can, your letters would be published as curiosities : * Behold a miracle ! instead of wit, ' See two dull lines with Stanhope's pencil writ/' He gave us an entertaining account of Bet Flint? a woman of the town, who, with some eecentrick talents...

...this kind of poem. It was written on glass with the diamond pencil of the late Lord Chesterfield — " Accept a miracle, instead of wit; " See two dull lines with Stanhope's pencil writ." Martial is the author among the antients whose poems approach the nearest to the modern idea of epigram....

...it. Should you even write as ill as you can, your letters would be published as curiosities: ' Behold a miracle ! instead of wit, ' See two dull lines with Stanhope's pencil writ,' Johnson's attention to precision and clearness in expression was very remarkable. He disapproved of...

...or fancy inverted, and so applied to given objects, as to make the little look less, the mean more light and worthless ; or to divert our admiration...passion, as poetry does. Wit may sometimes, indeed, be shewn in compliments as well as satire; as in the common epigram — " Accept a miracle, instead of...

...it. Should you even write as ill as you can, your letters would be published as curiosities: ' Behold a miracle ! instead of wit, See two dull lines with Stanhope's pencil writ.' " He gave us an entertaining account of Bet Flint, :i woman of the town, who, with some eccentrick...

...Should you even write as ill as you can, your letters would be published as curiosities : ' Behold a miracle ! instead of wit, ' See two dull lines with Stanhope's pencil writ.' " He gave us an entertaining account of Bet Flint, a woman of the town, who with some eccentrick talents...

...declined writing, because he hail no diamond : Lord Stanhope lent him his, und he wrote immediately — " Accept a miracle, instead of wit ; See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ." THE POZTICAL LANDLORD. A gentleman passing through Seven Oiks, in Kent, observed on a si^n in the road...

...Should you even write as ill as you can, your letters would be published as curiosities : ' Behold a miracle ! instead of wit, See two dull lines with Stanhope's pencil writ.' " Johnson's attention to precision and clearness in expression was very remarkable. He disapproved...