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
| Hugh Miller - 1865 - 530 sider
...would not willingly let die." There is one of the satirists justly severe on a class of crities " Who, drily plain, without invention's aid, Write dull receipts how poems may be made." But at some risk of rendering myself obnoxious to his censure, I shall attempt indicating at least... | |
| 1866 - 328 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 leave the sense their learning to display, And those explain the meaning quite away. You then... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1867 - 520 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. [steer,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1867 - 628 sider
...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 : These leave the sense, their learning to display ; And those explain the meaning quite away. You... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1869 - 580 sider
...fools. Some on the leaves of ancient authors prey4, 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 away5. You then... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1871 - 544 sider
...on the leaves of ancient authors prey, 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. You then... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 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 leave the sense, their learning to display, lie And those explain the meaning quite away. You... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 sider
...mind. POPE. Such lays as neither ebb nor flow, Correctly cold, and regularly low. POPE. Some dryly plain, without invention's aid, Write dull receipts how poems may be made. POPE. Before his sacred name flies ev'ry fault, And each excited stanza teems with thought. POPE. The... | |
| THOMAS ARNOLD - 1876 - 312 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 leave the sense, their learning to display, And those explain the meaning quite away. You then... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 sider
...mind. POPE. Such lays as neither ebb nor flow, Correctly cold, and regularly low. POPE. Some dryly plain, without invention's aid, Write dull receipts how poems may be made. POPE. Before his sacred name flies ev'ry fault, And each excited stanza teems with thought. POPE. The... | |
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