 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1126 страници
...Miller may combine To yield thy muse justhalf-a-crown per line? No ! when the sons of song descend ta don Byron : Still for stern Mammon may they toil in vain, And sadly gaze on gold they cannot gain ! Such be their... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1104 страници
...yield thy muse just half-a-crown per line í No ! when the sons of song descend to trade, Their hays are sear, their former laurels fade. Let such forego...name, Who rack their brains for lucre, not for fame : Still for stern Mammon may they toil in vain, And sadly gaze on gold they cannot gain ! Such be their... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1126 страници
...! when the sons of song descend to trade, Their bays aro scar, their former laurels fade. Let auch forego the poet's sacred name, "Who rack their brains for lucre, not for fame : Still foi' stern Mammon may they toil in vain, And sudly gaze on gold they cannot gain ! Such be... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1855 - 418 страници
...yield thy muse just half-a-crown per line? No ! when the sons of song deseond to trade, Their hays are sear, their former laurels fade. Let such forego the poet's sacred name, Who rack their braius for lucre, not for fame ; Still for stern Mammon may they toil in vain ! And sadly gaze on gold... | |
 | 1856 - 592 страници
...letter abounds with the simplest absurdities ever concocted for public perusal; and of such I will say " Low may they sink to merited contempt, And scorn remunerate the mean attempt.'' In allusion to the subject of my former letter, I still adhere firmly to my original proposition, that... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1857 - 420 страници
...stale romance, Though Murray with his Miller may combine To yield thy muse just half a crown per line ? No ! when the sons of song descend to trade, Their...name, Who rack their brains for lucre, not for fame ; Still for stern Mammon may they toil in vain ! an arrangement between an author and Ms publishers,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1857 - 428 страници
...stale romance, Though Murray with his Miller may combine To yield thy muse just half a crown per line? No! when the sons of song descend to trade, Their...name, Who rack their brains for lucre, not for fame; Still for stern Mammon may they toil in vain ! And sadly gaze on gold they cannot gain ! an arrangement... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1859 - 914 страници
...muse just half-a-crown per line ? No 1 when the sons of song descend to trade, Their bays are sere, ^— " I have seen A curious child, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-llpp'd shell, 6, not for fame : Still for stem Mammon may they toil in vain ! And sadly gaze on gold they cannot... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1861 - 734 страници
...stale romance? Though Murray with his Miller may combine To yield thy muse just half-a-crown per line? No! when the sons of song descend to trade, Their...their meed, such still the just reward Of prostituted rause and hireling bard! For this we spurn Apollo's venal son, And bid a long "good-night to Marmion."*... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1861 - 1154 страници
...Murray with big Miller may combine Го yield thy muse just half-a-crown per line ? No ! when the »one of song descend to trade, Their bays are sear, their...name, Who rack their brains for lucre, not for fame : Still for stern Mammon may they toil in rain, And sadly gaze on gold they cannot gain ! Such be their... | |
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And think'st thou, Scott! by vain conceit perchance, On public taste to foist thy stale romance, Though Murray with his Miller may combine To yield thy muse just half-a-crown per line? No! when the sons of song descend to trade, Their bays are sear, their... 
