 | G. WILLIS - 1854
...to severe." IV. 879. d'une voix leyere Passer du grave au doua:, du plaisant au severe. Boileau. " And he who now to sense, now nonsense leaning, Means not but blunders round about a meaning." Epietle to Arbuthnot, 185. Johnson, author of the Victim and Cobler of Preston. It is not poetry but... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 592 pages
...him as "fat Johnson," and in his " Fragment of a Satire " has tins spoken of him : — ' ' Jo — n, who now to sense, now nonsense, leaning. Means not, but blunders round about a meaning." 1 Lewis Theobald, the editor of Shakespeare, and the hero of the first Dunciad. Died 1744. in every... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Quotations, English - 1855 - 612 pages
...barrenness appear, And strain from hard-bound brains, eight llnes a year. Pope's Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnat. And he whose fustian's so sublimely bad, It is not poetry, but prose run mad. Pope's EpisOe ta Dr. АrЬatiаиЛ. That flattery ev'n to kings, he held a shame, And thought a lie... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 512 pages
...a-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....bad, It is not poetry, but prose run mad: All these rny modest satire bade translate, And owned that nine such poets made a Tate. How did they fume, and... | |
 | Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 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,...but blunders round about a meaning : And he, whose fustian 's so sublimely bad, It is not poetry, but prose run mad : 1 « A Persian tale : ' Ambrose... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 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,...but blunders round about a meaning : And he, whose fustian 's so sublimely bad, It is not poetry, but prose run mad : 1 ' A Persian tale : ' Ambrose Philips... | |
 | Universities and colleges - 1857 - 818 pages
...editor of the Quarterly sends us a printed report of a speech delivered by an AB, of the class of '57, " Who now to sense, now nonsense leaning, Means not, but blunders round about a meaning." We give a part of one or two of the best sentences : — " It is to a heavenly and not an earthly tribunal,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 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 nut Addison himself was safe. Peace to all such ! But were there one whose firef True genius... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 542 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,...but blunders round about a meaning : And he, whose fuslian's so sublimely bad, It is not poetry, but prose run mad : All these my modest satire bade translate,... | |
 | Benjamin Lambert - Humor in literature - 1861 - 62 pages
...blunders round about a meaning ; And he whose fustian 's so sublimely bad, It is not poetry, but prote run mad ; All these my modest satire bade translate,...that nine such poets made a Tate. How did they fume, aud stamp, and roar, and chafe, And swear not Addison himself wag safe ! Peace to all such ! But were... | |
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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... 
