All Nature wears one universal grin.

Henry Fielding (1707-1754): Tom Thumb the Great. Act i. Sc. 1.

He passed a cottage with a double coach-house,—

A cottage of gentility;

And he owned with a grin,

That his favourite sin

Is pride that apes humility.

Robert Southey (1774-1843): The Devil's Walk. Stanza 8.

I know it is a sin

For me to sit and grin

At him here;

But the old three-cornered hat,

And the breeches, and all that,

Are so queer!

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894): The Last Leaf.

Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt,

And every grin so merry draws one out.

John Wolcot (1738-1819): Expostulatory Odes. Ode xv.

And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin

Is pride that apes humility.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834): The Devil's Thoughts.

And coxcombs vanquish Berkeley by a grin.

John Brown (1715-1766): An Essay on Satire, occasioned by the Death of Mr. Pope.