 | John Booth - Epigrams - 1865 - 400 pages
...Highness's dog at Kew : Pray tell me, Sir, whose dog are you ? 7 On one Beautiful but Proud and Avartcious. So bright is thy beauty, so charming thy song As had...the beasts must have starved and the poet have died. My lord complains that Pope, stark mad with gardens, Has lopp'd three trees, the value of three farthings... | |
 | Epigrams - 1865 - 398 pages
...Highness's dog at Kew : Pray tell me, Sir, whose dog are you ? 7 On one Beautiful but Proud and Avartcious. So bright is thy beauty, so charming thy song As had...the beasts must have starved and the poet have died. My lord complains that Pope, stark mad with gardens, Has lopp'd three trees, the value of three farthings... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 pages
...grieved, J. where still so much is said ; one half will never be believed, the other never read. HI SO bright is thy beauty, so charming thy song as had...pride, that the beasts must have starved and the poet died. A. POPE TO A FRIEND ON HIS BIRTHDAY ON parent knees a naked newborn child weeping thou sat'st,... | |
 | 1866 - 328 pages
...difference should be 'Twixt Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee ! ON MRS. TOFTS, A CELEBRATED OPERA SINGER. So bright is thy beauty, so charming thy song, As...avarice, and such is thy pride, That the beasts must have starv'd, and the poet THE BALANCE OP EUROPE. Now, Europe balanc'd, neither side prevails ; For nothing's... | |
 | Isaac Jack Reeve - 1866 - 332 pages
...time, Another building towers sublime Whose basis rests on — Paper. BALANCE OF EUEOPE. Now Europe's balanced, neither side prevails, For nothing's left in either of the scales. * The equivocation of some of our ancient chroniclers who have " palter'd with us in a double sense,"... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 628 pages
...difference should be 'Twixt Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee ! ON MRS. TOFTS, A CELEBRATED OPERA SINOKR. So bright is thy beauty, so charming thy song, As...poet have died. THE BALANCE OF EUROPE. Now Europe 's balanced, neither side prevails ; For nothing 's left in either of the scales. EPITAPH. APPLIED... | |
 | 1868 - 506 pages
...seems to have combined with it many other unpopular traits, which led to the following epigram : — " So bright is thy beauty, so charming thy song, As...the beasts and their Orpheus along : But such is thy av'rice, and such is thy pride, Large salaries were paid to singers from the Continent from the very... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1869 - 580 pages
...Carruthers. shire, see note to Essay on Criticism, v. 724.] ON MRS TOFTS, A CELEBRATED OPERA-SINGER1. SO bright is thy Beauty, so charming thy Song, As...the Beasts and their Orpheus along; But such is thy Av'rice, and such is thy Pride, That the Beasts must have starv'd, and the Poet have died. EPIGRAM... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - English poetry - 1870 - 524 pages
...I'm grieved, where still so much is said; one half will never be believed, the other never read. О bright is thy beauty, so charming thy song, as had...the beasts must have starved and the poet have died. A. POPE 59 Partridge and Pheasant Shooting "V7"E vigorous swains ! while youth ferments your blood,... | |
 | Henry Philip Dodd - Electronic books - 1870 - 652 pages
...glance of Howard flies. ON MItS. TOFTO, A Handsome Woman with a Fine Voice, but very Covetous and Proud. So bright is thy beauty, so charming thy song, As...avarice, and such is thy pride, That the beasts must have starv'd, and the poet have died. This epigram has been ascribed to both Swift and Pope. It is given... | |
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So bright is thy beauty, so charming thy song, As had drawn both the beasts and their Orpheus along : But such is thy avarice, and such is thy pride, That the beasts must have starved, and the poet have died. THE BALANCE OF EUROPE. Now Europe balanced,... 
