 | John Dryden - 1811 - 628 pàgines
...for Tereus or Thyeftes dreft ; 25 'Tis tafk enough for thee to expofe a Roman feaft. PERSIUS. JTis not, indeed, my talent to engage In lofty trifles, or to fwell my page Ver. 11. Progne was wife to Tereus, king of Tbracia: Tercus foil in love with Philomela, fitter to... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 444 pàgines
...Ragouts for Tereus or Thyestes drest ; 'Tis task enough for thee t' expose a Roman feast. PERSIUS. 'Tis not, indeed, my talent to 'engage In lofty trifles, or to swell my page With wind and noise ; but freely to impart, As to a friend, the secrets of my heart,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 316 pàgines
...feet, Ragouts for Tereus or Thyestes dress'd; Tis task enough for thee to' expose a Roman feast. PERS. 'Tis not, indeed, my talent to engage In lofty trifles, or to swell my page With wind and noise; but freely to impart, As to a friend, the secrets of my heart; And,... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 884 pàgines
...equidem hoc studeo bullatis vt mihi nugis Pagina turgescat, dare fxnulus idaneafumO. PE»s. SAT. v. 19. 'Tis not indeed my talent to engage In lofty trifles, or to swell my page With wind and noise. — THERE is no kind of false wit which has been so recommended... | |
 | 1824 - 284 pàgines
...Addison. ffral equidem sludm, bullatis ut mihi nugit Pagina turgescat, dare pondus idanca fumo. FEUS. 'Tis not indeed my talent to engage In lofty trifles, or to swell my page 'With wind and noise. DRTOXBT. • THERE is no kind of false wit which has been so recommended... | |
 | Tertius T C. Kendrick - 1825 - 742 pàgines
...shouldered his fusil, and strode out of the room witli a happy and: satisfied countenance. CHAP. IX. 'Tis not, indeed, my talent to engage In lofty trifles, or to swell my page With wind and noise; but freely to impart, As to a friend, the secrets of my heart: And... | |
 | George Crabb - 1826 - 768 pàgines
...mimicry, of dramatic acting, and of imitation in general, is what distinguishes one man from the other ; 'Tis not, indeed, my talent to engage In lofty trifles, or to swell my page With wind and noise. DRYDEN. These terms are all used in the plural, agreeably to the... | |
 | 1827 - 558 pàgines
...compared to a bad cork in a bottle of good wine. It spoils the flavour of every thing. The Poet says, " 'Tis not, indeed, my talent to engage In lofty trifles, or to swell my page With wiad and noise ;" nevertheless, having been indulged with a licence of now and then... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1828 - 432 pàgines
...equidem hoc studeo, bullatis ut mihi nugis Pagina turgescat, dare pondus idonea fumo. i Pen. Sat. v. 1 9. 'Tis not indeed my talent to engage In lofty trifles, or to swell my page With wind and noise. Dryden, THERE is no kind of false wit which has been so recommended... | |
 | Hugh Moore - 1831 - 528 pàgines
...do not study to swell my book with pompous trifles, or to publish what will pass away like smoke." " 'Tis not indeed my talent to engage In lofty trifles, or to swell my page With wind and noise." — M. 2713. ATore est ad astro mollis a terris via. SEN. — "... | |
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