 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
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...go snacks." Glad of a quarrel, straight I clap the door, Sir, let me see your works and you no more. nod, up the chimney he rose. He sprang to his slei tib or sophistry, in vain, The creature 's at his dirty work again, Throned in the centre of his thin... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 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, He spins the slight, self-pleasing thread anew : ťo Destroy his fib or sophistry, in vain, The creature 's at his dirty work again, Throned in the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 192 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 on the centre of his thin designs, Proud of a vast extent of flimzy lines ! Whom have I hurt?... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1872 - 168 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 on the centre of his thin designs, Proud of a vast extent of fiimzy lines ! Whom have I hurt?... | |
 | William John Thoms - Longevity - 1873 - 344 pages
...Sir, — There is nothing so hard to kill as a lie — no one so hard to silence as an impostor. ' Destroy his fib or sophistry — in vain — The creature's at his dirty work again.' Old Geeran, the pretended Centenarian of Brighton, died persisting in his imposture ; and the so-called... | |
 | William John Thoms - Centenarians - 1873 - 350 pages
...'Sir, — There is nothing so hard to kill as a lie — no one so hard to silence as an impostor. ' Destroy his fib or sophistry —in vain — The creature's at his dirty work again.' Old Geeran, the pretended Centenarian of Brighton, died persisting in his imposture ; and the so-called... | |
 | 1874 - 564 pages
...prince of English satirists, appropriately described in the following lines : — " Who shames the scribbler ? Break one cobweb through, He spins the...vain, — The creature's at his dirty work again. Full ten years slandered — did I e'er reply ? SJiree thousand suns went down, on Welsted's lie I"... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...POPE. Glad of a quarrel, straight I clap the door: "Sir, let me see your works and you no more!" POPE. Who shames a scribbler? break one cobweb through, He spins the slight self-pleasing thread anew. POPE. He plunged for sense, but found no bottom there ; Then writ and flounder'd on in mere despair!... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...'Sdeath ! I '11 print it, And shame the fools." Line 61. No creature smarts so little as a fool. Line 84. Destroy his fib, or sophistry — in vain ! The creature's at his dirty work again. Line 91. As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. Line 127.... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 576 pages
...go snacks." Glad of a quarrel, straight I clap the door, Sir, let me see your works and you no more. Who shames a scribbler? break one cobweb through,...anew : Destroy his fib or sophistry, in vain, The creature 's at his dirty work again, Throned in the center of his thin designs, Proud of a vast extent... | |
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