 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, but blunders round about a meaning...  The Poetical Works - Page 107by Alexander Pope - 1828Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1890 - 562 pages
...Philips translated a book called the " Persian Tales, " a book full ot fancy and Imagination.— Pope. 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.1 How did they fums, and stamp, and roar, and chafe ! Arid swear,... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 480 pages
...[a-year ; And strains, from hard-bound brains, eight lines aHe, who still wanting, tho' he lives on theft, Steals much, spends little, yet has nothing...translate, And own'd that nine such poets made a Tate. 190 How did they fume, and stamp, and roar, and chafe 1 And swear, not Addison himself was safe. Peace... | |
 | English poetry - 1796 - 492 pages
...fa-year ; And strains, from hard-bound brains, eight lines aHe, who still wanting, tho' he lives on theft, Steals much, spends little, yet has nothing...It is not poetry, but prose run mad: All these my modestSatire bade translate, And own'd that nine such poets made a Tate. 190 How did they fume, and... | |
 | William Cliffton - 1800 - 156 pages
...between the two sides of a question, and backs and fills like a ship lying off and on in a storm. A man " Who, now to sense, now nonsense leaning, " Means not, but blunders round about a meaning." As is somewhere said of pretty nearly the same kind of person. But touching the other gentlemen, I... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 496 pages
...still wanting, tho' he lives on theft, Steals much, spends little, yet has nothing left. Johnson -f, who now to sense, now nonsense leaning, Means not,...sublimely bad, It is not poetry but prose run mad J : Should modest Satire bid all these translate, And own that nine such poets make a Tate ; • Philips.... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 498 pages
...still wanting, tho' he lives on theft, Steals much, spends little, yet has nothing left. Johnson -f, who now to sense, now nonsense leaning, Means not,...sublimely bad, It is not poetry but prose run mad J : Should modest Satire bid all these translate, And own that nine such poets make a Tate ; » Philips.... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1803 - 434 pages
...still wanting, tho" he lives on theft, Steals much, spends httle, yet has nothing left. Johnson *, who now to sense, now nonsense leaning, Means not,...sublimely bad, It is not poetry but prose run mad t : Should modest Satire bid all these translate, Ami own that nine such poets make a Tate; How would... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 190 pages
...appear, And strains from hard-bound brains eight lines a-year; He who still wanting, tho' he lives' on theft, Steals much, spends little, yet has nothing...; And he who now to sense, now nonsense, leaning, 185 Means not, but blunders round about a meaning ; And he whose fustian's so sublimely bad, It is... | |
 | Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - English poetry - 1806 - 360 pages
...une syllabe surabondante à la fin du vers ; c'est ce qu'il nomme une double rime : And he who,now to sense, now non-sense leaning Means not, but blunders round about a meaning* E, prologue to thé satyres. La rime est ici entre lean et mean ; la finale ing est surabondante dans... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 566 pages
...And strains, from hard-bound brains, eight line* a-year ; He, who still wanting, though he lives On theft, Steals much, spends little, yet has nothing...translate, And own'd that nine such poets made a Tate. 190 How did they fume, and stamp, and roar, and chafe 1 And swear, not Addison himself was safe. Peace... | |
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