 | James Hildyard - 1879 - 464 страници
...certainly so much more than Heraclitus had achieved in uearly two hundred years.* And as it is said that "Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue, But, like a shadow, proves the substance true;" so I think it may be assumed that there is some truth in what " Ingoldshy " has thus jestingly written,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1879 - 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 Gay - 1879 - 606 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... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1881 - 738 страници
...smallest speck is seen on snow. Gay, Fable xi. 1. That thousands want what you enjoy. Gay, Falle xv. 36. Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue ; But, like a shadow, proves the substance true. Canst thou discern another's mind ? What is't you envy? Envy's blind ; Tell envy, when she would annoy,... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1881 - 892 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 orbcs. Essay on Criticism continued.]... | |
 | John Gay - 1882 - 294 страници
...venal train from hell: 5 FABLES. The servile fiends her nod obey, And all CURLL'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... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 страници
...191. But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines! Line 220. Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But, like a shadow, proves the substance true. Line 266. To err is human, to forgive divine. Line 325. All seems infected that the infected spy, As... | |
 | John Gay - 1884 - 298 страници
...calls her venal train from hell: The servile fiends her nod obey, And all CURLL'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... | |
 | Thomas Young Crowell - 1885 - 702 страници
...calls her venal train from hell; The servile fiends her nod obey, And all Curll'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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1889 - 572 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, It draws... | |
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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... 
