 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1885 - 996 páginas
...Albemarle Street fellowshare-holder in "Marmion": " And think'st thon, Scott, by vain conceit perchauce On public taste to foist thy stale romance, Though...with his Miller may combine To yield thy muse just half a crown per line?" and so forth. Scott was rather angry with "the young whelp of a Lord Byron,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1885 - 352 páginas
...grace ; A mighty mixture of the great and base. And think'st thou, Scott ! by vain conceit perchance, On public taste to foist thy stale romance, Though...with his Miller may combine To yield thy muse just half a crown per line? No ! when the sons of song descend to trade. Their bays are sear, their former... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1888 - 682 páginas
...Л mighty mixture of the ^ ri-.it and ! tase. And thmk'st tliou, Scott ! by vain conceit perchance, On public taste to foist thy stale romance. Though...with his Miller may combine To yield thy muse just half a crown per line ? No ! when the sons of song descend to trade. Their bays are scar, their former... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1887 - 676 páginas
...stale romance, Though Murray with hs Miller may combine To yield thy muse just half a crown per line T No ! when the sons of song descend to trade, Their bays are scar, their former laurels fade. Let such forego the poet's sacred name. Who rack their brains for... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1889 - 336 páginas
...Reviewers.' This is a portion of the passage : — ' And think'st thou, Scott ! by vain conceit perchance, On public taste to foist thy stale romance. Though...trade, Their bays are sear, their former laurels fade.' As a matter of fact, there was on Scott's part no trade whatever in the case. If a publisher chose... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1891 - 752 páginas
...grace ; A mighty mixture of the great and base. And think'st thou, Scott ! by vain conceit per chance, death has reap'd theV *- fniit. / 'Twos thine own genius gave the tlieir former laurels fade. Let such forego I he poet's sacred name, Who rack their brains for lucre,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1896 - 794 páginas
...brains ; But, being for all other trades unfit, Only t' avoid being idle set up wit. BUTLER: Hudibras. No ! when the sons of song descend to trade, Their bays are sere, their former laurels fade : Let such forego the poet's sacred name Who rack their brains for... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1898 - 560 páginas
...romance, Though MURRAY with his MILLER may combine To yield thy muse just half-a-crown per line ? l No ! when the sons of song descend to trade, Their...fame : Still for stern Mammon may they toil in vain ! 2 i. Not quite a footpad . — [British Bards. ] 1. [In his strictures on Scott and Southey, Byron... | |
 | John Thomson - 1898 - 118 páginas
..." English Bards and " Scotch Reviewers." " And think'st thou, Scott I by vain conceit, perchance, " On public taste to foist thy stale romance, " Though...the sons of song descend to trade " Their bays are sere, their former laurels fade. " Let such forego the poet's sacred name, "Who rack their brains for... | |
 | Free Library of Philadelphia - 1898 - 112 páginas
...•• English Bards and " Scotch Reviewers." " And think'st thou, Scott ! by vain conceit, perchance, " On public taste to foist thy stale romance, " Though...To yield thy muse just half-a-crown per line ? " No 1 when the sons of song descend to trade " Their bays are sere, their former laurels fade. " Let such... | |
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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! 
