 | 1846 - 806 páginas
...your stndy of Fitzball has not been too exclusive, you may perhaps recollect the lines of Byron :— " No ! when the sons of song descend to trade, Their bays are sear, their former lanrels fade, Let such forego the poet's sacred name, Who rack their brains for lucre, not for fame;... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1847 - 880 páginas
...grace ; A mighty mixture of the great and base. And think'st thou, Scott 1 5 by vain conceit perchance, On public taste to foist thy stale romance, Though...poet's sacred name, Who rack their brains for lucre 6, not for fame : Still for stern Mammon may they toil in vain ! And sadly gaze on gold they cannot... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1847 - 606 páginas
...study of Fitzball has not been too exclusive, you may perhaps recollect the lines of Byron : — " No ! when the sons of song descend to trade, Their...name, Who rack their brains for lucre, not for fame . Low may they sink to merited contempt, And scorn remunerate the mean attempt ! Such be their meed,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1848 - 428 páginas
...grace, A mighty mixture of the great and base. And th ink'st thou Scott ! by vain conceit perchance, On public taste to foist thy stale romance, Though...name, Who rack their brains for lucre, not for fame : Slill for stern Mammon may they toil in vain, And sadly gaze on gold they cannot gain ! Such be their... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow - 1853 - 616 páginas
...traffic of Scott : Though Murray with bis Miller may combine, To yield thy muse just half-a-crown a line ; No ! when the sons of song descend to trade, Their bays Hre sear, their former laurels fade ; Let such forego the poet's sacred name, Who rack their brains... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow - 1853 - 616 páginas
...Locke instructed and delighted mankind." In vain will Byron contemn the literary traffic of Scott : Though Murray with his Miller may combine, To yield thy muse just Imlf-a-crown a line ; No ! when the sons of song descend to trade, Their bays arc scar, their former... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1854 - 892 páginas
...Reviewers."' I never could conceive how an arrangement between on author and his publishers, if satisfactory No ! when the sons of song descend to trade, Their...name, Who rack their brains for lucre, not for fame ; Btill for stem Mammon may they toil in vain I And sadly gaze on gold they cannot gain ! Buch be their... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1104 páginas
...by a repnluon of black-kllor ballad ImiuUona. And think'et thou, Scott ! by rain conceit perchance, On public taste to foist thy stale romance, Though...combine To yield thy muse just half-a-crown per line í No ! when the sons of song descend to trade, Their hays are sear, their former laurels fade. Let... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1126 páginas
...repetition of black-letter ballad ImÜatlona. And think'st thou, Scott ! by vain conceit perchance, justhalf-a-crown per line? No ! when the sons of song descend ta trade, Their bays are sear, their... | |
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Now forging scrolls, now foremost in the fight, Not quite a felon, yet but half a knight, The gibbet or the field prepared to grace ; A mighty mixture of the great and base. And think'st thou, Scott! 
