 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1882 - 544 pages
...thy claim resign, allow his right : For Duck can thresh, you know, as well as write.' ON MRS. TOFTS,1 A CELEBRATED OPERA-SINGER. So bright is thy beauty,...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. ' Stephen... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy, James Riddell, George William Clark - English poetry - 1890 - 522 pages
...petunt. 256 Fаr good distinguished and for ill. 0 bright is i by beauty, so charming i by song, they had drawn both the beasts and their Orpheus along ; but such is thine avarice, such is thy pride, the beasts mast have starved, and the poet have died. POPE. Whose... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1891 - 340 pages
...: For Duck can thresh, you know, as well as write. ON MRS. TOFTS, I A CELEBRATED OPERA-SINGER.i JO bright is thy beauty, so charming thy song, As had...pride, That the beasts must have starved, and the poets have died. EPIGRAM. OTJ beat your pate, and fancy wit will come : Knock as you please, there's... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1891 - 336 pages
...right : For Duck can thresh, you know, as well as write. ON MRS. TOFTS, A CELEBRATED OPEEA-SINGEK.1 |O bright is thy beauty, so charming thy song, As had...thy avarice, and such is thy pride, That the beasts nmst have starved, and the poets have died. EPIGRAM. OU beat your pate, and fancy wit will come : Knock... | |
 | John Gay - English poetry - 1893 - 400 pages
...quitted the stage in 1709, having lost her reason. The following epigram upon her is attributed to Pope : So bright is thy beauty, so charming thy song, As...thy pride, That the beasts must have starved, and Orpheus have died. The royal Dane, blest consort of the Queen (line 217). Queen Anne married, in 1683,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1893 - 586 pages
...Sheffield, Duke of BuckinghamMilton's Sonnets. Carmthers. shire, see note to Essay on Criticism, v. 724.] ON MRS TOFTS, A CELEBRATED OPERA-SINGER'. SO bright...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... | |
 | John Gay - English poetry - 1893 - 384 pages
...quitted the stage in 1709, having lost her reason. The following epigram upon her is attributed to Pope : So bright is thy beauty, so charming thy song, As...the beasts and their Orpheus along ; But such is thy ararice, and such is thy pride, That the beasts must hare starved, and Orpheus have died. The royal... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1893 - 566 pages
...note to Essay oil Criticism, v. 724.] 3° MISCELLANEO US. 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... | |
 | Henry Coppée - Literature - 1900 - 524 pages
...Spain. These lines on the subject were never more applicable than they have now become : " Now Europe's balanced ; neither side prevails, For nothing's left in either of the scales." If we pursue the same policy, we must travel the same road and endure the same burdens under which... | |
 | Walter Sichel - Great Britain - 1901 - 584 pages
...sold her kisses to thirty gentlemen at a guinea apiece. Every one remembers Pope's 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, That the beasts .must have starved and the poet have died."2 It is... | |
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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,... 
