Destroy his fib, or sophistry, in vain, The creature 's at his dirty work again, Thron'd in the centre of his thin designs, Proud of a vast extent of flimsy lines ! Whom have I hurt ? has poet yet, or peer, Lost the arch'd eye-brow, or Parnassian sneer? Letters, 1784-1789 - Страница 143по John Wilkes - 1805Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
| Edmund Henry Barker - 1820 - 144 страници
...scribbler ? break one cobaieb thro', He spins the slight, self-pleasing thread yypf.: Destroy his ßb or sophistry, in vain, The creature 's at his dirty work again, Thron'd on the centre of his thin designs, Proud of a wist extent ofßimsy lines ! 1. The Reviewer... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1825 - 420 страници
...profligacy of others, he is the dupe of his own jaundiced feelings, and narrow, hood-winked perceptions. " Destroy his fib or sophistry : in vain — The creature 's at his dirty work again !" But this is less from choice or perversity, than because he cannot help it and can do nothing else. He... | |
| British anthology - 1825 - 460 страници
...Who shames a scribbler ? break one cobweb through, He spins the slight self-pleasing thread anew : Destroy his fib, or sophistry, in vain ; The creature 's at his dirty work again, Throned on the centre of his thin designs, Proud of a vast extent of flimsy lines ! Whom have I hurt... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 страници
...Who shamef a scribbler? Break one cobweb througb, He spins the slight, teli'-pleasing thread, anew; of Mr. Thomson. The »cene of the following stanzas is supposed to lie on the Tha . . . One dedicate« iu high heroic prose, And ridicules beyond a hundred foes : One from all G nib... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 страници
...shames a scribbler? Break one cobweb through, He spins the slight, self-pleasing thread anew : 9« Destroy his fib, or sophistry ; in vain ! The creature 's at his dirty work again, Throned in the centre of his thin designs, Proud of a vast extent of flimsy lines. Whom have I hurt... | |
| John Aikin - 1843 - 826 страници
...world. Who shames a scribbler? Break one cobweb through. He spins the slight, self-pleasing thread anew: q t`q t6t7t r p p5j V ] u u m t jcm f,s U^s_s s u u u u m o /;t u u"j#j o q o Thron'd on tne centre of his thin designs, Proud of a vast extent of flimsy lines ! Whom have I hurt?... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 страници
...shames a scribbler1? break one cobweb through, He spins the slight, self-pleasing thread anew : 90 Destroy his fib or sophistry, in vain, The creature 's at his dirty work again, Throned in the centre of his thin designs, Proud of a vast extent of flimsy lines ! Whom have I hurt... | |
| Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 страници
...shames a scribbler1? break one cobweb through, He spins the slight, self-pleasing thread anew : 90 Destroy his fib or sophistry, in vain, The creature 's at his dirty work agMn, Throned in the centre of his thin designs, Proud of a vast extent of flimsy lines ! Whom have... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate - 1857 - 878 страници
...Who shames a scribbler? Break one cobweb through, He spins the slight, self-pleasing thread anew : Destroy his fib or sophistry — in vain, The creature 's at his dirty work again." The Wilkinson charges against me were three. The second, with its specifications, was entirely rejected,... | |
| John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 страници
...'sdeath I '11 print it, And shame the fools." Line 61. No creature smarts so little as a fool. Line 84. Destroy his fib, or sophistry, in vain ! The creature 's at his dirty work again. Line 91. As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came. Line 127.... | |
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