Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature - Unknown

Cowper: The Task, book iv.

The picture placed the busts between

Adds to the thought much strength;

Wisdom and Wit are little seen,

But Folly 's at full length.

On Beau Nash's Picture at full length between the Busts of Sir Isaac Newton and Mr. Pope.[312:5]

[312:5] Dyce: Specimens of British Poetesses. (This epigram is generally ascribed to Chesterfield. See Campbell, "English Poets," note, p. 521.)