Jane Brereton Quotes

Jane Brereton was a Welsh poet who wrote in English. She was notable as a correspondent for The Gentleman's Magazine. Wikipedia  

✵ 1685 – 7. August 1740
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Jane Brereton Quotes

“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., 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).

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