 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1881 - 570 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,...* All these, my modest satire bade translate, And owned that nine such poets made a Tate.' 180 185 190 1 In the Miscellany, "the wretch." J Amb. Philips... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1881 - 176 pages
...a year; 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,...poetry, but prose run mad: All these, my modest Satire bad? translate, And own'd that nine such poets made a Tate. 190 How did they fume, and stamp, and roar,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1881 - 196 pages
...a year; 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,...poetry; but prose run mad : All these, my modest Satire bad translate, And own'd that nine such poets made a Tate. 190 How did they fume, and stamp, and roar,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1881 - 570 pages
...sense still wanting, tho' he lives on Theft, Steals much, spends little, yet has nothing left : 1 Jo n, who now to sense now Nonsense leaning, Means not,...sublimely bad, ; It is not Poetry, but Prose run mad : Should modest Satire bid all these translate, And own that nine such poets make a T te, How would... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1963 - 884 pages
...Steals much, spends little, yet has nothing left : Johnson, who now to Sense, now Nonsense leaning, 35 Means not, but blunders round about a Meaning ; And...sublimely bad, It is not Poetry, but Prose run mad: Should modest Satire bid all these translate, And own that nine such Poets make a Tate; 40 How would... | |
 | William Henry Oliphant Smeaton - Humor - 1899 - 390 pages
...much, spends little, yet has nothing left : 1Ambrose Philips translated a book called the Persian Tabs. And he, who now to sense, now nonsense leaning, Means...mad: All these, my modest satire bade translate, And owned that nine such poets made a Tate. l How did they fume, and stamp, and roar, and chafe ! And swear,... | |
 | Andrew Ashfield, Peter de Bolla - Literary Collections - 1996 - 332 pages
...sublimes in a great one. Arbuthnot on Aliments. SUBLIMELY, adv. [from sublime.} Loftily; grandly. This fustian's so sublimely bad; It is not poetry, but prose run mad. Pope. SUBLIMITY, ns [from sublime; sublimite, Fr. sublimitas, Lat.] 1. Height of place; local elevation.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1998 - 260 pages
...a year; He, who still wanting, though he lives on theft, Steals much, spends litde, yet has nothing left: And he, who now to sense, now nonsense leaning,...poetry, but prose run mad: All these, my modest satire bad translate, And owned that nine such poets made a Tate. 190 How did they fume, and stamp, and roar,... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...DrArbuthnot' To help me through this long disease, my life. weighs, 8855 'An Epistle to DrArbuthnot' rtson Conn | 8856 'An Epistle to DrArbuthnot' Who breaks a butterBy upon a wheel? 8857 'An Epistle to DrArbuthnot'... | |
 | W. H. Auden - Poetry - 2004 - 604 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,...mad: All these, my modest satire bade translate, And owned that nine such poets made a Tate. How did they fume, and stamp, and roar, and chafe ! And swear,... | |
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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... 
