 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1882 - 544 pages
...right : For Duck can thresh, you know, as well as write.' ON MRS. TOFTS,1 A CELKDUATED OJ'KRA-SINQER. 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. 1 Stephen... | |
 | H. L. Sidney Lear - Quotations - 1882 - 200 pages
...pearles of morning's dew, Ne'r to be found againe. HERRICK. CCXXXII. EUROPE'S BALANCE. Now Europe's balanced, neither side prevails, For nothing's left in either of the scales. ccxxxm. ON SIR JOHN LEACH GOING OVER FROM THE OPPOSITION TO THE TORIES. THE Leach youVe just bought... | |
 | Autumn leaves - 1882 - 210 pages
...Saxon foes.' 4. ' One foot on sea, and one on shore, To one thing constant never.' 5. ' Now Europe's balanced, neither side prevails, For nothing's left in either of the scales.' 6. ' While gentleness its milder radiance throws Along that aged, venerable face.' 7. ' Childe Harold... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1883 - 480 pages
...bep-st on, Bep-st and besh-t on. DA CAPO. EPIGRAM. ON THE FEUDS ABOUT HANDEL AND BONONCINI. STRANGE I all this difference should be 'Twixt Tweedle-DUM and...the beasts and their Orpheus along : But such is thy av'rice, and such is thy pride, That the beasts must have starved, and the poet have died. TWO OR THREE:... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1883 - 480 pages
...bep-st on, Bep-st and besh-t on. DA CAPO. EPIGRAM. ON THE FEUDS ABOUT HANDEL AND BONONCINI. STRANGE I all this difference should be 'Twixt Tweedle-DUM and...the beasts and their Orpheus along : But such is thy av'rice, and such is thy pride, That the beasts must have starved, and the poet have died. TWO OR THREE:... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - Wit and humor - 1884 - 472 pages
...honest, thou'rt a dev'lish cheat. EPIGRAM OF ALEXANDER POPE. On Mrs. Tofts. (A Celebrated Opera ginger.) So bright is thy beauty, so charming thy song, As...the beasts must have starved and the poet have died. EPIGRAMS OP DEAN SWIFT. On Burning A Dull Poem. An ass's hoof alone can hold That poisonous juice which... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1883 - 480 pages
...bep-st on, Bep-st and besh-t on. DA CAPO. EPIGRAM. ON THE FEUDS ABOUT HANDEL AND BONONCINI. STRANGE 1 all this difference should be 'Twixt Tweedle-DUM and...the beasts and their Orpheus along : But such is thy av'rice, and such is thy pride, That the beasts must have starved, and the poet have died. TWO OR THREE:... | |
 | James Parton - English poetry - 1884 - 732 pages
...POPE. ON MRS. TOFTS. (A CELEBRATED OPERA SINGER.) So bright is thy beauty, eo charming thy song, Aa had drawn both the beasts and their Orpheus along...pride. That the beasts must have starved, and the poet hare died TO A BLOCKHEAD. You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come : Knock .as you please, there... | |
 | James Parton - English poetry - 1884 - 732 pages
...POPE. ON MBS. TOFTS. (A CELEBRATED OPERA SINGER.) So bright is thy beauty, so charming thy song, A •> had drawn both the beasts and their Orpheus along...avarice, and such is thy pride, That the beasts must have starred, and the poet hare died TO A BLOCKHEAD. You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come : Knock... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - English literature - 1886 - 418 pages
...brilliant picture was not without its shadows : — 1 Her song in ' Camilla ' ; the first in the opera. ' So bright is thy beauty, so charming thy song, As...beasts must have starved and the poet have died.' No singer of the day attained or deserved a greater reputation than the Cavaliere NICOLINI GRIMALDI,... | |
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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,... 
