 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1898 - 536 páginas
...sneered at, in the following lines : — " And think'st them, Scott, by vain conceit perchance, On pnblic taste to foist thy stale romance ; Though Murray with...Miller may combine, To yield thy Muse just HALF-A-CROWN A LINE? No ! when the sons of song descend to trade, Their bays are sear, their former laurels fade.... | |
 | 1194 páginas
...Albemarle Street fellowshare-holder in "Mannion": " And think'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?" and so forth. Scott was rather angry with "the young whelp of a Lord Byron,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1900 - 618 páginas
...origin of my productions. A>BOT«rou>, April, 1830. To yield thy muse just half a crown per line 1 No t when the sons of song descend to trade, Their bays...fame ; Still for stern Mammon may they toil in vain I And sadly gaze on gold they cannot gain ! Such be their meed, such still the just reward Of prostituted... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1900 - 622 páginas
...ABBOTSTOBD, April, 1830. To yield thy mute Juit half a crown per line ? No ! when the sons of aong descend to trade, Their bays are sear, their former...fame ; Still for stern Mammon may they toil In vain I And sadly gaze on gold they cannot gain ! Such be their meed, Buch still the Just reward Of prostituted... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1900 - 782 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...To yield thy muse just half-a-crown per line ? No I when the sons of song descend to trade, Their bays are sear, their former laurels fade. Let such... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1900 - 604 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 Murray with his Miller may combine of my publishers. These gentlemen, at least, were not of opinion that they had been taken advantage... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1902 - 808 páginas
...grace ; A mighty mixture of the great and base. And think'st thou, Scott! by vain conceit perchauoe, On public taste to foist thy stale romance, Though Murray with his Miller may combine To yield thymuse just half -a-crown per line? No! when the sons of song descend to trade, Their bays are sear,... | |
 | James Lauren Ford, Mary K. Ford - 1902 - 470 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? Nol when the sons of song descend to trade, Their bays are sear, their former... | |
 | Charles Herbert Sylvester - 1903 - 362 páginas
...grace ; A mighty mixture of the great and base. And thinkest thou, Scott ! 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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1903 - 532 páginas
...thy stale romance ; Though Murray with his Miller may combine, To yield thy Muse just HALF-A-CROWN A LINE ? No ! when the sons of song descend to trade,...name, Who rack their brains for lucre, not for fame : Low may they sink to merited contempt, And scorn remunerate the mean attempt." Now, is it not almost... | |
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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! 
