 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 430 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, Th' opposing body's grossness, not its own. NOTES.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 426 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, Th' opposing body's grossness, not its own. NOTES.... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 страници
...arise : Nay, should great I Tomer lift his awful head, /niliis again would start up from the dead. .Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But, like a shadow, proves the substance true; 1'or envied wit, like Sol eclipsed, makes known The' opposing body's grossncss, not its own. "When... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 270 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... | |
 | Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 страници
...intend; And if the means be just, the conduct true, Applause, in spite of trivial faults, is due. " 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... | |
 | John Gay - 1823 - 228 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. TS there a bard whom genius fires, As prostrate to the God of day, With heart devout a Pevs\ax\ \wj,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 400 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 Th' opposing body's grossness, not its own. NOTES. Ver.... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 400 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 Th' opposing body's grossness, not its own. NOTES. Ver.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 страници
...must arise: Nay, should great Homer lift his awful head, Zoilus again would start up from the dead: ELEGANT EXTRACTS. Of flavour or of scent in fruit or flower, Or what lie views of beau For envy'd wit, like Sol eclips'd, makes known Th' opposing body's grossness, not its own. When first... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 404 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 Th' opposing body's grossness, not its own. NOTES. Ver.... | |
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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... 
