...shameless bards we have: and yet 'tis true, G10 There are as mad, abaudon'd critics too. The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned...reads assails, From Dryden's Fables down to Durfey's Talcs : With him most authors steal their works, or buy; Garth did not write his own Dispensary. Name...

...do." A sufficiently clumsy inversion this last, yet in some degree emulated by the following : — " With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always listening to himself appears." " Made for his use all creatures if he call, Say what their use, had he the powers of all." " (Her...

...shameless bards we have: and yet 'tis true, 610 There are as mad, abandon'd critics too. The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned...: With him most authors steal their works, or buy j Garth did not write his own Dispensary. Name a new play, and he's the poet's friend, 620 Nay, show'd...

...shameless bards we have ; and yet 't is true, There are as mad, abandon'd critics too. The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned...not write his own Dispensary. Name a new play, and he 's the poet's friend, T^ay, show'd his faults ; but when would poets mend ? No place so sacred from...

...shameless bards we have ; and yet, 'tis true, There are as mad, abandoned critics too. The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned...head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, 55 And always listening to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads assails, From Dryden's...

...history, memory, victory, calumny, injury, luxury, penury, perjury, usury, industry. "- With these most authors steal their works, or buy ; Garth did not write his own dispensary." — POPE. " But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company." — POPE....

...his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always listening to himself appears. 615 All books he reads, and all he reads assails, From...their works, or buy ; Garth did not write his own Dispensary.4* Name a new play, and he 's the poet's friend, 620 Nay show'd his faults — but when...

...greater ease; And, with its everlasting clack, Set all men's ears upon the rack. Butler. The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned...his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always listenmg to himself appears. Pope. Is there a man of an eternal vein, Who lulls the town in winter...

...exhibited a clever curiosity gone astray, in the portrait of a scholar who reads all books : — " And all he reads assails, From Dryden's Fables down...Durfey's tales ; "With him most authors steal their works — not buy t Garth did not write his own Dispensary ." Swift seems to indicate the fair distinction...

...Such shameless bards we have ; and yet 'tis true, There are as mad, abandon'd critics too. The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned...authors steal their works, or buy ; Garth did not write l his own Dispensary. 620 1 ' Garth did not write : ' a common slander at that time in prejudice of...