...of this world roll off, and leave us alone with God! CHAPTER IV. MB. JOSEPH BATES, THE YANKEE LAD. " A shallow brain behind a serious mask, An oracle within an empty cusk, He says but liltle, and, that little said, Owes all its weight, like loaded dice, to lead." Cowper's...

...FORESIGHT. POP— Description of a. A graver coxcomb we may sometimes see, '•(ale as absurd, tho' not so light as he : A shallow brain behind a serious mask, An oracle within an empty cask ; Tir: solemn fop ; significant and fudge ; A f jol with judges, amongst foole a judge. He isys but...

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...countenance and gesture.' Cowper in his Conversation has well described a man of this class : — ' A shallow brain behind a serious mask, An Oracle within...budge ; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge ; i Difference. A subtle distinction. * Blanch. To erade. ' A man horribly cheats his own soul, who...

...The idol only has to keep close and scrupulously preserve his minuteness concealed from the world. A shallow brain behind a serious mask, An oracle within an empty cask, The solemn fog ; significant and budge ; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge, He says but little, and, that...

...cogence, we may say, Why such an one should keep himself away. A graver coxcomb wo may sometimes see, Quite as absurd though not so light as he: A shallow...within an empty cask, The solemn fop ; significant and budge;1 A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge ; He says but little, and that little said Owes all...

...hard if all is false that I advance, A fool must now and then be right by chance. Coicrer, Conc.95. A shallow brain behind a serious mask, An oracle within an empty cask ; He says but little, and that little said Owes all its weight, like loaded dice, to lead. His wit...

...gentleman," whose " Odoriferous attempts to please Perhaps might prosper with a swarm of bees " ; And the " Shallow brain behind a serious mask, An oracle within an empty cask " ; The retailers of sick experiences — whose discourse we need not quote ; — and, finally, the perversely...

...cogence, we may say, Why such a one should keep himself away. A graver coxcomb we may sometimes see, Quite as absurd, though not so light as he : A shallow...fools a judge. He says but little, and that little aaid, Owes all its weight, like loaded dice, to lead. His wit invites you by his looks to come, But...