 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 - Poets, English - 1881 - 572 pages
...B. 8. Pit, box, and gallery in convulsions hurled, Thou stand'st unshook amidst a bursting world.1 Who shames a scribbler ? break one cobweb through,...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 lines ! Whom have I hurt... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1881 - 570 pages
...B. 3. Pit, box, and gallery in convulsions hurled, Thou stand'st unshook amidst a bursting world.1 "Who shames a scribbler ? break one cobweb through,...sophistry — in vain ! The creature's at his dirty work again,3 Throned in the centre of his thin designs, Proud of a vast extent of flimsy lines ! "Whom have... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1881 - 608 pages
...8. 248 Pit, box, and gallery in convulsions hurled; 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,3 Throned in the centre of his thin designs, Proud of a vast extent of flimsy lines ! Whom have... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1881 - 842 pages
...darkened walls? All fly to Twit'uam, and in humble s train Apply to me, to keep them mud or vain. . . . who shames a scribbler ? Break one cobweb through,...the slight, self-pleasing thread anew; Destroy his flb or sophistry: in vain ! The creature *s at his dirty work again. . . . One dedicatee in high heroic... | |
 | Yasmine Gooneratne - Literary Criticism - 1976 - 164 pages
...Let Peals of Laughter, Codrusl round thee break, 85 Who shames a Scribler? 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 in the Centre of his thin designs; Proud of a vast Extent of flimzy lines. The intellectual,... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Gary Richard Thompson - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1984 - 1572 pages
...career without interruption, and, had he lived in the days of Pope, the latter might well have asked, ers which should be left to Mr. Espy, who knows something...and chief poem in the volume, is entitled "The Gre — * * * * Proud of a vast extent of flimsy lines." Mr. Ulric now indulges us with another love affair,... | |
 | Helen Deutsch - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 300 pages
...ruins. The image that follows is even more telling: Who shames a Scribler? 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 in the Centre of his thin designs; Proud of a vast Extent of flimzy lines. Whom have I hurt?... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1998 - 260 pages
...mighty crack: Pit, box, and gallery in convulsions hurled, Thou standst unshook amidst a bursting world. Who shames a scribbler? break one cobweb through, He spins the slight, self-pleasing thread anew: 90 Destroy his fib or sophistry; in vain, The creature's at his dirty work again, Throned in the centre... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...cruel? take it for a rule, No creature smarts so little as a fool. 8852 'An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot' 8853 'An Epistle to DrArbuthnot' As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisped in numbers, for the... | |
 | Howard Anderson - Aesthetics - 1967 - 429 pages
...the following lines from the Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot: Who shames a Scribler? 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 in the centre of his thin designs, Proud of a vast extent of flimsy lines. (11.89-94) This... | |
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