 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: And He, whose fustian's so sublimely bad, It is not Poetry,...  The Poetical Register, and Repository of Fugitive Poetry for 1801-11 - Page 3051811Full view - About this book
 | John Bell - 1796 - 480 pages
...round about a meaning; And he whose 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. 190 How did they fume, and stamp, and roar, and chafe 1 And swear, not Addison himself was safe. Peace... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 190 pages
...round about a meaning ; And he whose 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, 190 How did they fume, and stamp, and roar, and chafe ! And swear not Addison himself was safe. Peace... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 562 pages
...round about a meaning ; And he whose 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. 190 How did they fume, and stamp, and roar, and chafe 1 And swear, not Addison himself was safe. Peace... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...round about a meaning ; And he whose 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. How did they fume, and stamp, and roar, and chafe! And swear not Addison himself was safe. Peace to... | |
 | 1811 - 592 pages
...That pleas'd he saw astonish' d Julio stand, tJor know his own, nor Raphael's magic hand ; Ijlushingto find himself enamour'd grown Of rival charms and beauties...represented, may have deterred many from engaging jn it, who would perhaps have made no contemptible figure iu that branch of literature. * Andrea del... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 452 pages
...round about a meaning : And He, whose 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. 190 . NOTES. Ver. 189. All these, my modest Satire bade translate,] See their works, in the Translations... | |
 | 1822 - 284 pages
...round about a meaning; And he whose 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. How did they fume, and stamp, and roar,and chafe! And swear not Addison himself was safe. Peace to... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 452 pages
...round about a meaning : And He, whose 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. 190 NOTES. Ver. 189. All these, my modest Satire bade translate,] See their works, in the Translations... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 468 pages
...round about a meaning: And He, whose 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 Tale. 190 NOTES. Ver. IS:). .•/// these, my modest Satire bade translate,] See their works, in the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 494 pages
...round about a meaning : And he, whose 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. 190 NOTES. Ver. ISO. a Persian tale] Amjb- Philips translated a book called the Persian Tales. Pope.... | |
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