"The picture placed the busts between Adds to the thought much strength; Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly's at full length."
— Jane Brereton

January 1, 1970

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On Beau Nash's Picture at full length between the Busts of Sir Isaac Newton and Mr. Pope., in Dyce, Specimens of British Poetesses. This epigram is generally ascribed to Chesterfield. See Campbell, English Poets, note, p. 521. Reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).