 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...wife, To help me through this long disease, my life. Soft were my numbers ; who could take olleiice l is drest After the sun's remove. I see them walking...of glory, Whose light doth trample on my days, — Oildan dniw his venal quill ; I wished the man a dinner, and sate still. Yet then did Dennis rave in... | |
 | American poetry - 1872 - 900 pages
...to ease some friend, not wife, To help me through this long disease, my life. Soft were my numbers ; ering his wished the man a dinner, and sate still. Yet then did Dennis rave in furious fret ; I never answered,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 pages
...world will judge of men and books, Not from the Burnets,1 Oldmixons, and Cookes. Soft were my numbers ; who could take offence While pure description held...theme, ' A painted mistress, or a purling stream.' 160 Yet then did Gildon 2 draw his venal quill ; I wish'd the man a dinner, and sat still. Yet then... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1872 - 168 pages
...world will judge of men and books, Not from the Burnets, Oldmixons, and Cooks. Soft were my numbers ; who could take offence While pure Description held the place of sense? Like gentle Fanny's was my flow'ry theme, A painted mistress, or a purling stream. 150 Yet then did Gildon draw his venal quill;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 192 pages
...world will judge of men and books, Not from the Burnets, Oldmixons, and Cooks. Soft were my numbers ; who could take offence While pure Description held the place of sense? Like gentle Fanny's was my flow'ry theme, A painted mistress, or a purling stream. 150 Yet then did Gildon draw his venal quill;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1873 - 590 pages
...judge of men and books, 145 Not from the finrnets, Oldmixons^ and Cookes™, Soft were my numbers ; who could take offence, While pure Description held the place of Sense ? Like gentle Fanny's was my flow'ry theme, A painted mistress, or a purling stream11. 150 Yet then did GildoriP draw his venal... | |
 | Austin Dobson - Authors, English - 1874 - 332 pages
...Plays. He attacked Pope, who put him in the Dunciad, and in the Prologue to the Satires (1. 151) : — ' Yet then did Gildon draw his venal quill ; I wish'd the man a dinner, and sate still/ Gillies, Dr. Jobn, 1747-1836. (GEOEGE III., GEOEGE IV.) p History of Ancient Greece, 1786;... | |
 | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - Aesthetics - 1874 - 456 pages
...not in Fancy's maze he wandered long, But stoop'd to Truth, and moraliz'd his song.' Ibid. 148:— ' Who could take offence, While pure description held the place of Sense?' The observation which Warburton makes upon this last passage may be taken for an authentic explanation... | |
 | Jakob Olaus Løkke - 1875 - 556 pages
...second, Arbuthnot! thy art and care, And teach, the being you preserved, to bear. Soft were my numbers; who could take offence While pure Description held the place of sense? Yet then did Gildon draw his venal quill; I wished the man a dinner, and sate still. Yet then did Dennis... | |
 | THOMAS ARNOLD - 1876 - 312 pages
...such hostile criticism that Pope referred, when he wrote, many years later— Soft were my numbers ; who could take offence While pure description held the place of sense ? Like gentle Fanny's was my flow'ry theme, A painted mistress, or a purling stream. Yet then did Dennis rave in furious fret, I... | |
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Soft were my numbers ; who could take offence While pure description held the place of sense ? Like gentle Fanny's was my flowery theme, A painted mistress, or a purling stream. 
