...have a friend at court. '* Thus applied by Mr. Pope : — " Here lies Lord Coningsby." -H. ANOTHER. You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come : Knock as you please, there's nobody at home. EPITAPH OF BY-WORDS. HERE lies a round woman, who thought mighty odd,...

...have a friend at court. * Thus applied by Mr. Pope : — " Here lies Lord Coningsby." -H. ANOTHER. You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come : Knock as you please, there's nobody at home. EPITAPH OF BY-WORDS. HERE lies a round woman, who thought mighty odd,...

...what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought. 5440 Dryden : Cym. and Iph. Line 84. You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come, Knock as you please, there's nobody at home. 5441 Pope: Epigram. VALENTINES, VALENTINE'S DAY. Oft have I heard both...

...all of them asking to be quoted. But only a few lines can be given here, ßwift's well-known lines, You beat your pate and fancy wit will come; Knock as you will, there's nobody at home, seem to drop of their own accord into the obvious Latin : Cmi cerebrum pulsas venturaque grandia credis...

...ignorant of. Pope has hit off the empty-headedness of many would-be wits in the following epigram : You beat your pate and fancy wit will come; Knock as you please, there's nobody at home. Here is another fair hit at the race of intellectual fools : " I vow,"...

...ignorant of. Pope has hit off the empty-headedness of many would-be wits in the following epigram : You beat your pate and fancy wit will come; Knock as you please, there 's nobody at home. Here is another fair hit at the race of intellectual fools : " I vow,"...

...babe a life so short : Consider, Peter, he's in Heaven ; 'Tis good to have a friend at court. ANOTHER. You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come : Knock as you please, there's nobody at home. EPITAPH OF BY-WORDS. HERE lies a round woman, who thought mighty odd,...

...avarice, and such is thy pride. That the beasts must have starved, and the poet hare died TO A BLOCKHEAD. You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come : Knock .as you please, there 's nobody at home. THB POOL AND THE POBT. Sir, I admit your general rule, That every...

...I chose her," says he, " like old plate, Not for the fashion but the weight." — Elegant Extracts. You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come ; Knock as you please, there 's nobody at home. — Epigram : Pope. CHAPTER XXII. PURE REPRESENTATION IN THE POETRY...

...fire and light." W. А. В.— "Night after night He sat and bleared his eyes with books." FHC — "You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come ; Knock as you please, there's nobody at home. " SGP — " But love is blind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies...