 | Alexander Pope - 1869 - 570 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... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1870 - 802 страници
...a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens ! how the style refines ! Part ii. Line 220. Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But, like a shadow, proves the substance true. Part ii. Line 266. 1 Solvuntur, tardosque trahit sinus ultimus orbes. Virgil, Georgia, Lib. iii. 424.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1873 - 590 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 Tli' opposing body's grossness, not its own, When first... | |
 | Thomas Beedle - 1873 - 400 страници
...ready wit; And authors think their reputation safe, 450 »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 Th' opposing body's grossness, not its ovcs*.. When... | |
 | John Timbs - 1873 - 662 страници
...inoffensive manners and unquestioned superiority, that all rejoiced at every step he attained—as all wept when he was snatched away from the still higher honours which awaited him." " NEWLY-BORN VANITY." After Fitzgibbon and Scott, of the Irish Bar, had been raised to... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 страници
...but by death : The great Alcides, ev'ry labour past, Had still this monster to subdue at lasL POPE. Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue ; But, like a shadow, proves the substance true. POPE. Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave. Is emulation in the learn'd or brave. Madam, this... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1875 - 760 страници
...calls her venal train from hell: The servile fiends her nod obey, And all Curl's 1 authors are in pay, Fame calls up calumny and spite. Thus shadow owes its birth to light. u As prostrate to the god of day, With heart devout, a Persian lay, His invocation thus begun: ' Parent... | |
 | THOMAS ARNOLD - 1876 - 312 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 envied wit, like Sol eclips'd, makes known Th' opposing body's grossness, not its own. When first... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1877 - 400 страници
...calls her venal train from hell: The servile friends her nod obey, And all Curll's authors are in pay. Fame calls up Calumny and Spite : Thus shadow owes its birth to light." John Gay knew what he was here writing about. And it was a familiar topic with his friend Swift, with... | |
 | Where, Who - 1878 - 186 страници
...all thy faults, I love thee still. 1 COWPER, The Timepiece—Task. Envy is a kind of praise. • GAY. Envy will merit as its shade, pursue; But, like a shadow, proves the substance true. POPE, An Essay on Criticism,. And where she went the flowers took thickest root, As she had sowed them... | |
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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... 
