Who shames a scribbler? break one cobweb through, He spins the slight, self-pleasing thread anew: Destroy his fib or sophistry, in vain, The creature's at his dirty work again, Throned in the centre of his thin designs, Proud of a vast extent of flimsy... The Anti-Jacobin, Or, Weekly Examiner - Page 1511803Full view - About this book
| Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 388 pages
...crack : Pit, box, and gallery, in convulsions hurl'd, Thou stand'st unshook amidst a bursting world. Who shames a scribbler? break one cobweb through,...the slight self-pleasing thread anew : Destroy his fih, or sophistry, in vain ; The creature's at his dirty work again, Thron'd on the centre of his thin... | |
| British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...crack : Pit, box, and gallery, in convulsions hurl'd, Thou stand'st unshook amidst a bursting world. Who shames a scribbler ? break one cobweb through....in vain ; The creature's at his dirty work again, Thron'd on the centre of his thin designs, Prond of a vast extent of flimsy lines ! Whom have I hurt... | |
| 1809 - 402 pages
...huiTd, Thou stand'st unshook amidst a burbling world. Who shames a scribbler ? break one cobweb thro* , He spins the slight self-pleasing thread anew . Destroy...sophistry in vain, The creature's at his dirty work again ; Thron'd on the centre of his thin designs, Proud of avast extent of flimsy lines ! Whom have 1 hurt?... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 536 pages
...creek : Pit, box, and gallery, in convulsions hurl'd, Thou stand'st nnshook amidst a bursting world. Who shames a scribbler 'Break one cobweb through, He spins the slight, self-pleasing thread anew : 90 Destroy his 6b or sophistry, in vain. The creature's at 1iis dirty work again, Thron'd on the... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...Who shames a scribler ? break one cobweb thro', He spins the slight, self-pleasing thread anew : 90 Destroy his fib, or sophistry, in vain, The creature's at his dirty work again, Thron'd in the centre of his thin designs, Proud of a vast extent of flimzy lines ! Whom have I hurt... | |
| Liberalism (Religion) - 1814 - 632 pages
...like modest}', and have kept him filcnt for the future. Well might the Poet exclaim, • " Who shame* a scribbler ? break one cobweb through* He spins the...self-pleasing thread anew .Destroy his fib or sophistry, in Tain, The creature's at its dirty work again-" The writer begins his argument by drawing the proper... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...convulsions Imrl'd, Thou stand's! unshook amidst a bursting world. Who shames a scribbler? Break one cobwrb se remotest shores Can soon be shaken by thy naval...all assaults Baffling, as thy hoar cliffs the loud Thron'd on the centre of his thin designs, Proud of a vast extent of flimsy lines ! Whom have I hurt... | |
| Great Britain - 1820 - 606 pages
...cannot excite much alarm. There is a comparison, in your own bard, which might suit you better : " Destroy his FIB, or sophistry in vain, The creature's at his dirty work again !" but rest assured, I regard with equal contempt, your sophistry or falsehood, " your cob-web, or... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 402 pages
...crack : Pit, box, and gallery, in convulsions hurl'd, Thou stand's! unshook amidst a bursting world. Who shames a scribbler? Break one cobweb through,...sophistry, in vain, The creature's at his dirty work again, Thron'd on the centre of his thin designs, Proud of a vast extent of flimsy lines ! Whom have I hurt... | |
| Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...crack: Pit, box, and gallery, in convulsions hurl'd, Thou stand'st unshook amidst a bursting world. Who shames a scribbler ? break one cobweb through,...sophistry, in vain; The creature's at his dirty work again, Throned on the centre of his thin designs, Proud of a vast extent of flimsy lines ! Whom have I hurt... | |
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