 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
 | H. M. Melford - 1841 - 466 sider
...(Blair.) 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, These leave the sense, their learning to display, And those explain the meaning quite away. (Pope's... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 sider
...learned. Some on the leaves of ancient authors prey ; Nor time nor moths e'er spoiled so much as they : Some drily plain, without invention's aid, Write dull receipts how poems may be made : These leave the sense, their learning to display, And those explain the meaning quite away. You then,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 488 sider
...Some on the leaves of ancient authors prey, Nor time nor moths e'er spoil so much as they. Some dryly plain, without invention's aid, Write dull receipts how poems may be made. 115 had torn. There was Opinion, her sister, light of foot, hood-winked, and headstrong, yet giddy,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 sider
...masters fools Some on the leaves of ancient authors prey, Nor time nor moths e'er spoil so much as they. Some drily plain, without invention's aid, Write dull receipts how poems may be made. These leave the sense, their learning to display, And those explain the meaning quite away. You then... | |
 | 1856 - 568 sider
...and receipt, Are drawn to nibble at the bnit. And in Pope's Essay on Criticism, pt. i. line 114.: " Some drily plain, without invention's aid, Write dull receipts how poems may be made." Doubtless recipe was, gome time or other, the usual commencement of a physician's prescription, and... | |
 | 1851 - 464 sider
...on the leaves of ancient authors prey; Nor time nor moths e'er spoil'd so much as they: Some dryly plain, without invention's aid, Write dull receipts how poems may be made; These leave the sense their learning to display, And those explain the meaning quite away. • * *... | |
 | 1851 - 510 sider
...on the leaves of ancient authors prey; Nor time nor moths e'er spoil'd so much as they: Some dryly plain, without invention's aid, Write dull receipts how poems may be made; These leave the sense their learning to display, And those explain the meaning quite away. • •... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 sider
...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. These lose the sense, then: learning to display ; And those explain the meaning quite away. You, then,... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 sider
...the leaves of ancient authors prey, no Nor time nor moths e'er spoiled so much as they ; Some dryly plain, without invention's aid Write dull receipts how poems may be made. These leave the sense, their learning to display, And those explain the meaning quite away. us You,... | |
 | 1856 - 598 sider
...receipt, Are drawn to nibble at the bait." And in Pope's Essay on Criticism, pt. i. line 114. : • " Some drily plain, without invention's aid, Write dull receipts how poems may be made." Doubtless recipe was, some time or other, the usual commencement of a physician's prescription, and... | |
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