 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 542 pages
...flatter' d every day, and some days eat : Till grown more frugal in his riper days, He paid some bards with port, and some with praise; To some a dry rehearsal...still the great have kindness in reserve, He help'd to bury whom he help'd to starve. May some choice patron bless his gray goose-quill ! May every Bavins... | |
 | Evenings - 1860 - 386 pages
...flatter'd every day, and some days eat; Till grown more frugal in his riper days, He paid some bards with port, and some with praise: To some a dry rehearsal...assign'd, And others (harder still) he paid in kind. Dry den alone (what wonder 0 came not nigh, Dryden alone escaped his judging eye: But still the great... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 632 pages
...eat ; Till, grown more frugal in his riper days, lie paid some bards with port, and some with praint To some a dry rehearsal was assign'd, And others (harder still) he paid in kind, Uryden alone (what wonder?) name not nigh; Dryden alone escaped this judging eye: But still the great... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 388 pages
...flatter'd every day, and some days eat : Till grown more frugal in his riper days, He paid some bards with port, and some with praise; To some a dry rehearsal...alone (what wonder ?) came not nigh ; Dryden alone escap'd this judging eye : But still the great have kindness in reserve ; He help'd to bury whom he... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 520 pages
...flatter'd every day, and some days eat: Till grown more frugal in his riper days, He paid some bards with port, and some with praise ; To some a dry rehearsal...still, the great have kindness in reserve, He help'd to bury whom he help'd to starve. Bless'd be the great, for those they take away, And those they left... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 626 pages
...flatter'd every day, and some days eat : 240 Till, grown more frugal in his riper days, He paid some bards with port, and some with praise ; To some a dry rehearsal...assign'd, And others (harder still) he paid in kind. Drydeu alone (what wonder ?) came not nigh ; Dryden alone escaped this judging eye : But still the... | |
 | Thomas Craddock - Biography & Autobiography - 1867 - 232 pages
...nattered every day, and some days eat : Till grown more frugal in his riper days, He paid some bards with port, and some with praise, To some a dry rehearsal was assigned, And others, harder still, he paid in kind. ***** But still the great have kindness in reserve... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1869 - 570 pages
...ev'ry day, and some days eat: • 240 Till grown more frugal in his riper days, He paid some bards with port, and some with praise; To some a dry rehearsal...in kind. Dryden alone (what wonder?) came not nigh, 345 Dryden alone escap'd this judging eye: But still the Great have kindness in reserve, He help'd... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1897 - 764 pages
...well-known satirical sketch of Montagu as Bufo, has also misrepresented Montagu's relations with Dryden : " Dryden alone (what wonder?) came not nigh, Dryden...: But still the great have kindness in reserve, He helped to bury whom he helped to starve." Montagu evidently had the will to serve Dryden during the... | |
 | William Clark Russell - Authors, English - 1871 - 550 pages
...flatter' d every day, and some days eat ; Till grown more frugal in his riper days He paid some bards with port, and some with praise ; To some a dry rehearsal...assign'd, And others (harder still) he paid in kind. — Pope. Of him, who from a poet became a patron of poets, it will be readily believed that the works... | |
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Till grown more frugal in his riper days, He paid some bards with port, and some with praise ; To some a dry rehearsal was assign'd, And others (harder still) he paid in kind. 
