| Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 320 pages
...year: He who, still wanting, though he lives on theft, Steals much, spends little, yet has nothing left : ' And he, who, now to sense, now nonsense leaning, Means not, hut hlunders round ahout a meaning ; And he, whose fostian's so suhlimely had, It is not poetry, hut... | |
| Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 502 pages
...linesayear: He who, still wanting, though he lives on theft, Steals much, spends little, yet has nothing ve-like wing. E'en I more sweetly pass my careless days, 1'leased hut blunders round about a meaning ; And he, whose fustian's so sublimely bad, It is not poetry, but... | |
| Asia - 1838 - 664 pages
...determine if he had any. Perhaps he realizes the picture drawn by Pope, in one of his biting couplets : " And he, who, now to sense now nonsense leaning, Means not, but blunders round about a meaning." The critic has laboured hard, but he has certainly done far more harm to the character of the Britith... | |
| Warden Flood - Great Britain - 1838 - 450 pages
...secured him oblivion, but for humorous stories happily introduced, and quaintly told. " His matter, now to sense, now nonsense leaning, Means not — but blunders round about a meaning." Among the class of minor politicians who CHAP. opposed reform on the present, and on the former ^Y->J... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...year; He, who still wanting, though he lives on theft, Steals much, spends little, yet has nothing left : And he, who now to sense, now nonsense leaning,...translate*, And own'd that nine such Poets made a Tale. How did they fume, and stamp, and roar, and chafe ! And swear not ADDISON himself was safe. Peace... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...ayear; He, who, still wanting, though he lives on theft, Steals much, spends little, yet has nothing hower His benediction so, that in his seed All nations...believes : I see him, but thou const not, with what fa : AH these, my modest satire bad translate, And own'd that nine such poets made a Täte. How did they... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...who, still wanting, though he lives on theft, Steals much, spends little, yet has nothing left : ] z } } i is not poetry, but prose run mad : All these, my modest satire bad translate, And own'd that nine... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...leaning \Ieans not, but blunders round about a meaning: And he, whose fustian's su sublimely bad, ,t glory with the Heavens." He ceas'd, discerning Adam with such bad translate, And own'd that nine such poets made a Tate. rlow did they fume, and stamp, and roar,... | |
| Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 290 pages
...half-a-crown ;« He, who still wanting, though he lives on theft, Steals much, spends little, yet has nothing left; And he who now to sense, now nonsense leaning,...How did they fume, and stamp, and roar, and chafe, Aud swear not Addison himself was safe. Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to... | |
| Leigh Hunt - Humor - 1846 - 282 pages
...half-a-crown ;n He, who still wanting, though he lives on theft, Steals much, spends little, yet has nothing left; And he who now to sense, now nonsense leaning,...How did they fume, and stamp, and roar, and chafe, Aud swear not Addison himself was safe. Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to... | |
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