 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 pages
...but smile, When every coicomb knows me by my style 7 Cursed be the verse, how well soe'cr it (low, That tends to make one worthy man my foe, Give virtue scandal, innocence a fear, Or from the soft-eyed virgin steal a tear : But he who hurts a harmless neighbour's peace, Insults fallen worth,... | |
 | George William F. Howard (7th earl of Carlisle.) - 1850 - 52 pages
...himself, at all events, to have indulged in this estimate of the tenor of his own productions:— " Curst be the verse, how well soe'er it flow, That tends to make one honest man my foe, Give virtue scandal, innocence a fear, Or from the soft-eyed virgin steal a tear."... | |
 | James Boswell - 1863 - 352 pages
...something only, if there be nothing against it. I should, however, be sorry to offend worthy men: ‘ Caret be the verse, how well soe'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.” BOSWELL : “ Curst be the spring, the water.” JOHNSON : “ But let us consider what a sad thing... | |
 | George William Frederick Howard Earl of Carlisle - Slavery - 1851 - 54 pages
...himself, at all events, to have indulged in this estimate of the tenor of his own productions :— " Curst be the verse, how well soe'er it flow, That tends to make one honest man my foe, Give virtue scandal, innocence a fear, Or from the soft-eyed virgin steal a tear."... | |
 | John Dawson Ross - M'Lehose, Agnes (Craig) 1759-1841 - 1897 - 288 pages
...kindness, your smile of approbation, you would not, either in prose or verse, risk a censorious remark. " Curst be the verse, how well soe'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe !" No. XII. To CLARINDA. SYLVANDER. You talk of weeping, Clarinda: some involuntary drops wet your... | |
 | John Dawson Ross - M'Lehose, Agnes (Craig) 1759-1841 - 1897 - 288 pages
...kindness, your smile of approbation, you would not, either in prose or verse, risk a censorious remark. " Curst be the verse, how well soe'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe !" No. XII. To CLARINDA. SYLVANDER. You talk of weeping, Clarinda: some involuntary drops wet your... | |
 | William Keith Leask - 1897 - 168 pages
...cellar ! Benevolence calls for compliance, for, ' curst be the spring? he adds with a change of Pope's verse, 'how well soe'er it flow, that tends to make one worthy man my foe !' 'I do,' he wrote in the London Magazine for March 1780, 'fairly acknowledge that I love drinking... | |
 | Robert Burns, Frances Anna Wallace Dunlop - Authors - 1898 - 488 pages
...dead. Remember, this is only poetic justice, and not pronounced by me. Curst be the line, how smooth soe'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe. For, as the lines may have beauty and merit if unappropriated, I would absolve them and mercifully... | |
 | Quotations - 1899 - 704 pages
...hell. / Were such the wife had fallen to my part, / I'd break her spirit or I'd break her heart. Bums. Curst be the verse, how well soe'er it flow, / That...Give virtue scandal, innocence a fear, Or from the soft-ey'd virgin steal a tear. Л'/г. Curs'd merchandise, where life is sold, / And avarice consents... | |
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makes. Poor guiltless I! and can I choose but smile, When every coxcomb knows me by my style ? Curst be the verse, how well soe'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe, Give virtue scandal, innocence a fear, Or from the soft ey'd virgin steal... 
