 But fill their purse, our poets' work is done, Alike to them by pathos or by pun. O, you ! whom vanity's light bark conveys On fame's mad voyage, by the wind of praise, With what a shifting gale your course you ply, For ever sunk too low, or borne too...  The British poets, including translations - Page 47by British poets - 1822Full view - About this book
 | Literature - 1764 - 198 pages
...Fame's mad voyage by the wind of praife, With what a Ihifting gale your courfe you ply, Per ever funk too low, or borne too high ! Who pants for glory finds but ftiort repofe, A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows. Nothing can be more beautiful than thefe... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - Biography - 1769 - 600 pages
...its allufion to the Roman triumph. " With what a fhifting gale your courfe you " ply, " For ever funk too low, or borne too high ! *' Who pants for glory finds but fhort repofe, " A breath revives him, or a breath o'er** throws. " Farewell the ftage ! if juft as... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - Biography - 1769 - 592 pages
...to the Koman triumph. , «' With *' With what a mifting gale your courfe you "ply, *' For ever funk too low, or borne too high ! " Who pants for glory finds but fhort repofe, " A breath revives him, or a breath o'er" throws. ie Farewell the ftage ! if juft as... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1778 - 394 pages
...Fame's mad voyage by the wind of praile, With what a ihifting gale your courfe you ply, For ever funk too low, or borne too high ! Who pants for glory finds but fhort repofe, 300 A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrovvs. Farewell the ft age ! if juft as thrives... | |
 | English literature - 1797 - 490 pages
...Fame's mad voyage by the wind of Praife ; With what a fhiftinp gate your coiwfe you ply, For ever funk too low, -or borne too high ; Who pants for glory finds but (hott repofe, A breath revives him or a brenth-o'erthrows. Pdfl. EVERY enquiry that tends to improve... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1791 - 966 pages
...fame's mad voyage by the wind of praile, With what a (hiftmg gale your courfe you plyf For ever funk weak, and fmooth j Unapt to toil and trouble iu the world (hort repofe ; A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows. Farcwcl tlie ftage 1 if, juft as thrives... | |
 | English poetry - 1796 - 500 pages
...or by Pun. 295 0 you! whom s vanity's light bark conveys On Fame's mad voyage by the wind of praise, With what a shifting gale your course you ply, For...high ! Who pants for glory finds but short repose; 300 A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows. 1 Farewell the stage ! if just as thrives the play,... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 480 pages
...! Who pants for glory finds but short repose ; 300 A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows. 7 Farewell the stage ! if just as thrives. the play, The silly bard grows fat, or falls away. Plus oneris, quanto veniic minus, i aspice, Plantus Ouo pactoi paries tuetur amantis ephebi, Ut patris... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1796 - 574 pages
...fame's mad voyage by the wind of praile, With what a (hifting gale your courfe you ply, For ever funk too low, or borne too high ! Who pants for glory finds but fliurt repofe ; A breath revives him, or a breath u'crthrows. Farcwel the ftage ! if, juft as thrives... | |
 | Great Britain - 1798 - 932 pages
...Fame's mad voyage by the wind of Praife ; With what a mining gale your count you ply, For ever funk too low, or borne too high ; Who pants for glory finds but ihort repofe, A breath revives him or a breath o'ertnrows. Vol. «5c Hor. Pore. EVERY inquiry that... | |
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