He, who still wanting, tho' he lives on theft, Steals much, spends little, yet has nothing left: And He, who now to sense, now nonsense leaning, Means not, but blunders round about a meaning... The Merry Monarch: Or, England Under Charles II. Its Art, Literature, and ... - Pągina 280per William Henry Davenport Adams - 1885Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| Alexander Pope - 1890 - 562 pągines
...Philips translated a book called the " Persian Tales, " a book full ot fancy and Imagination.— Pope. And he, who now to sense, now nonsense leaning, /...fustian's so sublimely bad, It is not poetry, but prose run mad: All these, my modest satire bade translate, And owned that nine such poets made a Tate.1... | |
| 1796 - 500 pągines
...appear, fa-year ; And strains, from hard-bound brains, eight lines aHe, who still wanting, tho' he lives on theft, Steals much, spends little, yet has nothing...fustian's so sublimely bad, It is not poetry, but prose run mad: All these my modestSatire bade translate, And own'd that nine such poets made a Tate.... | |
| William Cliffton - 1800 - 156 pągines
...between the two sides of a question, and backs and fills like a ship lying off and on in a storm. A man " Who, now to sense, now nonsense leaning, " Means not, but blunders round about a meaning." As is somewhere said of pretty nearly the same kind of person. But touching the other gentlemen, I... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 496 pągines
...still wanting, tho' he lives on theft, Steals much, spends little, yet has nothing left. Johnson -f, who now to sense, now nonsense leaning, Means not,...whose fustian's so sublimely bad, It is not poetry but prose run mad J : Should modest Satire bid all these translate, And own that nine such poets make a... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 498 pągines
...still wanting, tho' he lives on theft, Steals much, spends little, yet has nothing left. Johnson -f, who now to sense, now nonsense leaning, Means not,...whose fustian's so sublimely bad, It is not poetry but prose run mad J : Should modest Satire bid all these translate, And own that nine such poets make a... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1803 - 434 pągines
...still wanting, tho" he lives on theft, Steals much, spends httle, yet has nothing left. Johnson *, who now to sense, now nonsense leaning, Means not,...whose fustian's so sublimely bad, It is not poetry but prose run mad t : Should modest Satire bid all these translate, Ami own that nine such poets make a... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1804 - 190 pągines
...appear, And strains from hard-bound brains eight lines a-year; He who still wanting, tho' he lives' on theft, Steals much, spends little, yet has nothing...; And he who now to sense, now nonsense, leaning, 185 Means not, but blunders round about a meaning ; And he whose fustian's so sublimely bad, It is... | |
| Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - 1806 - 360 pągines
...une syllabe surabondante ą la fin du vers ; c'est ce qu'il nomme une double rime : And he who,now to sense, now non-sense leaning Means not, but blunders round about a meaning* E, prologue to thé satyres. La rime est ici entre lean et mean ; la finale ing est surabondante dans... | |
| John Bell - 1807 - 562 pągines
...appear, And strains, from hard-bound brains, eight line* a-year ; He, who still wanting, though he lives On theft, Steals much, spends little, yet has nothing...fustian's so sublimely bad, It is not poetry, but prose run mad : All these my modest Satire bade translate, And own'd that nine such poets made a Tate.... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pągines
...Andstrainsfrom hard-bound brains eightlines ayear; He who still wanting, thongh he lives on theft, Steals mnch, spends little, yet has nothing left; And he who now...fustian's so sublimely bad, It is not poetry, but prose run mad ; All these my modest satire bade translate, And own'd that nine such poets made a Tate.... | |
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