 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 páginas
...mind, That costing-weight pride adds to emptiness, This, who can gratify ? for who can guesa ? The bard could not win the mistress, woo fromhard-bound brains eight linesayear: He who, still wanting, though he lives on theft, Steals much,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1839 - 782 páginas
...sentiments prevail is not ripe for destruction." — Life, vol. 11. p. 339.] 9 [•' The bard whom pilfer 'd pastorals renown. Who turns a Persian tale for half...barrenness appear. And strains, from hard-bound brains, eight lines a year. " Ambrose Phillips translated a book called the * Persian Tales,' a book full of... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 páginas
...can guess ? The bard whom pilfer'd pastorals renown, Who turns a Persian tale « for half-a-crown, eight lines a year; He, who still wanting, though he lives on theft, Steals much, spends little, yet... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - 1839 - 316 páginas
...r in the last verse is very descriptive of the rudeness and harshness of bad verses. Thus, Pope : " Just writes to make his barrenness appear, And strains from hard-bound brains eight lines a year.71 Letter to Jlrbutlinot. 240. Smooth and easy verses generate an emotion allied... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 372 páginas
...mind, That casting-weight pride adds to emptiness, This, who can gratify ? for who can guess * The bard whom pilfer'd pastorals renown, Who turns a Persian...barrenness appear, And strains from hard-bound brains eight lines a year; He who, still wanting, though he lives on theft, Steals much, spends little, yet... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - 1840 - 314 páginas
...r in the last Terse is very descriptive of the rudeness and harshness of bad verses. Thus, Pope : " Just writes to make his barrenness appear, And strains from hard-bound brains eight lines a year." Letter to Aravi,lnwt. 240. Smooth and easy verses generate an emotion allied to... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 páginas
...who can gratify? for who can guess Î The bard whom pilfer'd pastorals renown, Who turns а Persinn ht shade of tangled thicket» In consecrated earth,...And on the holy hearth, [plain! : The Lars, and L eight lines ayear; He, who, still wanting, though he lives on theft, Steals much, spends little, yet... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1844 - 780 páginas
...such sentiment* prevail b not ripe for destruction." — /-'/•'. vol. li. p. 389.] s [" The bard whom pilfer'd pastorals renown. Who turns a Persian...barrenness appear, And strains, from hard-bound brains, eight Hoea a year. " Ambrose Phillips translated a book called the ' PenSan Tales,' a book full of... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1844 - 786 páginas
...sentiments prevail is not ripe for destruction." — Life, vol. 11. p. 339.] 2 [" The bard whom pllfer'd pastorals renown. Who turns a Persian tale for half...barrenness appear, And strains, from hard-bound brains, eight lines a year. " Ambrose Phillips translated a book called the ' Persian Tales,' a book full of... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1846 - 320 páginas
...mind, That casting-weight pride adds to emptiness, This, who can gratify ? for who can guess 1 The hard whom pilfer'd pastorals renown, Who turns a Persian tale for half a crown ; Just writes to make his harrenness appear, And strains from hard-hound hrains eight lines ayeal He who, still wanting, though... | |
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But each man's secret standard in his mind, That casting-weight pride adds to emptiness, This, who can gratify ? for who can guess * The bard whom pilfer'd pastorals renown, Who turns a Persian tale for half a crown, Just writes to make his barrenness... 
