| John Pinkerton - Literature - 1785 - 532 pages
...weigh'd, fcarce worth the praife. They praife, and they admire, they .know not what, And know not when ; but as one leads the other. And what delight to be...extoll'd, To live upon their tongues, and be their talk, Of whom to be defpifed were no fmall praife ? His lot who dares be fingularly good. Milt. Par. Reg.... | |
| John Bell - English poetry - 1788 - 628 pages
...Things vulgar, and well weigh'd, scarce worth the They praise, and they admire they know not what, And know not whom, but as one leads the other ; And what delight to be by such extoll'd, To live upon their tongues and be their talk, 5 5 Of whom to be disprais'd were no small... | |
| Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 740 pages
...Things vulgar, and, well wcjgh'd, fcarce worth the They praife and they admire they know not what, And know not whom, but as one leads the other ; And...extoll'd, To live upon their tongues, and be their talk, Of whom to be difprais'd were no fmall praife ? His lot who dares be fingularly good. Th' intelligent... | |
| Gilbert Wakefield - 1796 - 382 pages
...with popular breath, And that too after death. And much in the fame manner Milton, Par. Reg. iii. 55. And .what delight to be by fuch extoll'd, To live upon their tongues, and be their talk, Of whom to be difprais'd were no fmall praife ? Young probably followed our poet, in his fourth Satire... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 842 pages
...vulgar, 'and well wcigh'd, fcarce worth the praife? They praife and they admire they know not what, And know not whom, but as one leads the other ; And what delight to be by fuch extoll'd, To live upcn their tongues and be their talk, jj ' Of whom to be difprais'd were no fmall praife? His lot who... | |
| John Milton - 1807 - 434 pages
...Things vulgar, and well weigh'd, scarce worth the They praise, and they admire they know not what, D 2 And know not whom, but as one leads the other; -And what delight to be by such extoll'd, To live upon their tongues and be their talk ? O£ whom to be disprais'd were no smaJl... | |
| John Milton, Henry John Todd - 1809 - 544 pages
...been, as they ought to hav« W«n, remembered. TOOD. They praife,and they admire, they know not what, And know not whom, but as one leads the other; And...: . To live upon their tongues, and be their talk, sj Of whom to be difpruis'd were no fmall praife ? His lot who dares be fingularly good. f The intelligent... | |
| John Milton - 1810 - 414 pages
...vulgar, and, well weigh'd, scarce worth the praise? They praise, and they admire, they know not what, And know not whom, but as one leads the other ; And what delight to be by such extoll'd, To live upon their tongues, and be their talk, Of whom to he disprais'd were no small... | |
| John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...vulgar, and, well weigh'd, scarce worth the praise ? They praise, and they admire, they know not what, And know not whom, but as one leads the other; And what delight to be by such extoll'd, To live upon their tongues, and be their talk, Of whom to be disprais'd were no small... | |
| William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 418 pages
...vulgar, and, well weigh'd, scarce worth the praise ? They praise, and they admire, they know not what, And know not whom, but as one leads the other; And what delight to be by such extoll'd, To live upon their tongues, and be their talk, Of whom to be disprais'd were no small... | |
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