 | John Gay - 1796 - 284 страници
...calls her venal train from hell; The servile fiends her nod obey, And all CURL'S authors are in pay. FAME calls up calumny and spite. Thus shadow owes its birth to light. As prostrate to the god of day, With heart devout, a PERSIAN lay, His invocation thus begun :— Parent... | |
 | John Bell - 1797 - 424 страници
...calls her venal train from hell: The servile fiends her nod obey ; And all Curl's authors are in pay. Fame calls up Calumny and spite: Thus shadow owes its birth to light. is As prostrate to the God of Day, With heart devout, a Persian lay, His invocation thus begun: Parent... | |
 | John Gay, Edward Moore - 1800 - 260 страници
...calls her venal train from hell: The servile fiends her nod obey, And all Curl's authors are in pay ; Fame calls up calumny and spite : Thus shadow owes its birth to light. As prostrate to the god of day, With heart devout, a Persian lay, His invocation thus begun: Parent... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1801 - 372 страници
...following celebrated lines .on envy, some people will find easy, and others difficult, to learn by heart: " Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue ; " But, like a shadow, proves the substance true: " For envy'd'wit, like Sol eclips'd, rhakes known " Th* opposing body's grossnfiss, not its "own. "... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 236 страници
...arise: Nay, should great Homer lift his awful head, Zoilus again would start up from the dead. 465 Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow proves the substance true; For envy'd wit, like Sol eclips'd, makes known TV opposing body's grossness, not its own. When first... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 218 страници
...must arise: Nay, should great Homer lift his awful head, Zoilus again would start up from the dead. Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow proves the substance true: For envy'd wit, like Sol eclips'd, makes known Th' opposing body's grossness, not its own. When first... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 страници
...must arise: Nay, should great Homer lift his awful head t Zoilus again would start up from the dead. Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue; But, like a shadow, proves the substance true: For envy'd wit, like Sol eclips'd, makes known Th' opposing body's grossnrss, not its own. When first... | |
 | John Gay - 1808 - 146 страници
...calls her venal train from Hell j The servile fiends hef nod obey, And all Curll's authors are in pay. Fame calls up calumny and spite. Thus shadow owes its birth to light. Parent of light, all-seeing Sun, Prolific beam, whose rays dispense The various gifts of Providence,... | |
 | Christopher Anstey, John Anstey - 1808 - 600 страници
...calls her venal train from hell; The servileJiends her nod obey, And all CURL'S authors are in pay, Fame calls up calumny and spite ; Thus shadow owes its birth to light. As prostrate to the God of day, With heart devout, a Persian lay, His invocation thus begun ; " Parent... | |
 | 1809 - 488 страници
...ALEXANDER POPE. Kay, should great Homer lift his awful head, Zoilus again would start up from the dead. Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow proves the substance true; For envied wit, like Sol eclips'd, makes known The' opposing body's grossness, not its own. "When first... | |
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all wept when he was snatched away from the still higher honours which seemed to be awaiting him. — It is said : " Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But, like a shadow, proves the substance true." " Fame calls up calumny and spite, Thus shadow owes... 
