NLY think, to have lords overrunning the nation,
As plenty as frogs in a Dutch inundation;
No shelter from barons, from earls no protection,
And tadpole young lords, too, in every direction,—
Things created in haste, just to make a court list of,
Two legs and a coronet all they consist of!
Thomas Moore.
O! the king, his footsteps this way bending,
His cogitative faculties immersed
In cogibundity of cogitation.
Aldiborontiphoscophornio, in Carey's Chrononhotonthologos.
T is with narrow-souled people, as with narrow-necked bottles: the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
Pope, Thoughts on Various Subjects.