| John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 480 pages
...rabble from your throne: A vaunt is Aristarchus yet unknown ? 210 The mighty Scholiast, whose uriweary'd pains Made Horace dull, and humbled Milton's strains....is vain, Critics like me shall make it prose again. 214 Roman and Greek grammarians! know you better; Author of something yet more great than letter; 'While... | |
| English poetry - 1796 - 500 pages
...rabble from your throne: Avaunt is Aristarehus yet unknown ? 210 The mighty scholiast, whose unweary'd pains Made Horace dull, and humbled Milton's strains. Turn what they will to verse, (he:r toil is vain, Critics like me shall male it prose again. 214 Roman and Greek grammarians! know... | |
| Joseph Warton - 1806 - 536 pages
...his own labours : Thy mighty scholiast, whose unweary'd pains Made Horace dull, and humbled Maro's strains, Turn what they will to verse, their toil...vain ; Critics like me, shall make it prose again. For attic phrase in Plato let them seek ; I poach in Suidas for unlicens'd Greek. Por thee we dim the... | |
| Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...his own labours : Thy mighty scholiast, whose unweary'd pains Made Horace dull, and humbled Maro's strains. Turn what they will to verse, their toil...vain; Critics like me, shall make it prose again. For attic phra.se in Plato let them seek; I poach in Suidas for unlicens'd Greek. For thee we dim the... | |
| Joseph Warton - 1806 - 464 pages
...own labours: Thy mighty scholiast, whose unweary'd pains ¿ ¿1ade Horace dull, and humbled Maro's strains, Turn what they will to verse, their toil is vain; Critics like me, shall make it prose agziin. Fo¿ attic phrase in Plato let them seek; I poach in Suidas for unlicens'd Greek. For thee... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1812 - 374 pages
...pride, 2OJ Walker with rev'rence took, and lay'd aside. Low bow'd the rest: He, kingly, did but nod ; So upright quakers please both man and God. Mistress! dismiss that rabble from your throne: Avaunt—is Aristarchus yet unknown ? 210 Thy VER. 199. iJic itrejms'] The river Cam, running by the... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - Authors, English - 1814 - 302 pages
...mortified Poet the full-length figure of " the slashing Bentley" in the fourth book of the Uunciad ; " The mighty Scholiast, whose unwearied pains Made Horace dull, and humbled Milton's strains." When Bentley was told by some officious friend that Pope had abused him, he only replied, "Ay, like... | |
| Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 530 pages
...(where some have proposed to read, Mme. Dacier). Hence ' the slashing Bentley' of the Dunciad, The mighty Scholiast, whose unwearied pains Made Horace dull, and humbled Milton's strains! Bentley's comment was—" I spoke against his Homer, and the portentous cub never forgives!" Alas!... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1890 - 562 pages
...human pride, Walker 7 with reverence took, and laid aside. Low bowed the rest: he, kingly, did but nod; So upright Quakers please both man and God. " Mistress!...your throne: Avaunt —is Aristarchus" yet unknown ? Thy mighty scholiast, whose unwearied pains Made Horace dull, and humbled Milton's strains. Turn... | |
| British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 294 pages
...pride, Walker with reverence took, and laid aside. Low bow'd the rest: he, kingly, did but nod ; M7 So upright quakers please both man and God. ' Mistress!...from your throne: Avaunt is Aristarchus yet unknown ? 110 Thy mighty scholiast, whose unwearied pains Made Horace dull, and humbled Milton's strains. Turn... | |
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