 Prescribe, apply, and call their masters fools. Some on the leaves of ancient authors prey, Nor time nor moths e'er spoil'd so much as they: Some drily plain, without invention's aid, Write dull receipts how poems may be made.  Essays on Educational Reformers - Side 451af Robert Hebert Quick - 1890 - 568 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | 1720 - 302 sider
...on the leaves of ancient authors prey, Nor time nor moths e'er fpoil'd fo much as they. Some dryly plain, without invention's aid, Write dull receipts how poems may be made: Thefe loft the fenfe, their learning to difplay, And thofe explain'd the meaning quite away. You then... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1752 - 396 sider
...fools. Some on the leaves of antient authors prey, Nor time nor moths e'er fpoil'd fo much as they. Some drily plain, without invention's aid, Write dull receipts how poems may be made, 115 COMMENTARY. For, as Ignorance, when joined with Humility produces ftupid admiration, on which account... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1754 - 264 sider
...fools. Some on the leaves of ancient authors prey, Nor time nor moths e'er fpoil'd fo much as they : Some drily plain, without invention's aid, Write dull receipts how poems may be made. 115 Thefe leave the fenfe, their learning to difplay, And thofe explain the meaning quite away. You... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1757 - 280 sider
...fools. Some on the leaves of antient authors prey, Nor time nor moths e'er fpoil'd fo much as they. Some drily plain, without invention's aid, Write dull receipts how poems may be made, 115 COMMENTARY. For, as Ignorance, when joined with Humility producer ftupid admiration, on which account... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1760 - 316 sider
...fools. Some on the leaves of antient authors prey, Nor time nor moths e'er fpoil'd fo much as they. Some drily plain, without invention's aid, Write dull receipts how poems may be made. 115 COMMENTARY. For, as Ignorance, when joined with Humility,.prod\iC£s ftupid admiration, on which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 398 sider
...rules were given. After ver. 104. this line is omitted, Set up themfelves, and drove a feparate trade. Some drily plain, without invention's aid, Write dull receipts how poems may be made. ti£ Thefe leave the fenfe, their learning to difplay, And thofe explain the meaning quite away. You... | |
 | Johann Joachim Eschenaburg - 1789 - 484 sider
...on the leaves of ancient authors prey, Nor time nor moths e'er fpoil'd fo much is they ; Some dryly plain, without invention's aid, Write dull receipts how poems may be made. Thefe leave the fenie , their learning to difplay, And thofe explain the meaning quite away. You then... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1791
...fools. Some on the leaves of ancient authors prey ; Nor time nor moths e'er fpoil'd fomuch as they : "+ = 0- Thcfe leave the lenfe, their learning to difplay; And thofc explain the meaning quite away. You then... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 510 sider
...Some on the leaves of ancient authors prey ; Nor time nor months e'er fpoil'd fo much as they : Som« drily plain, without invention's aid, Write dull receipts how poems may be made. Thcfc leave the fcnfc, their learning to difplay ; And thofe explain the meaning quite away. You then... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1797 - 444 sider
...maflers fools. Some on the leaves of ancient authors prey, Nor time nor moths e'er fpoil fo much as they. Some drily plain, without invention's aid, Write dull receipts how poems may be made, 115 NOTES. to fland prominent like a dug of the firft rate, nor wanted excrEfcencies in form of teats,... | |
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