Sing, heavenly muse, Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme;" A shilling, breeches, and chimeras dire. Happy the man, who, void of cares and strife, In silken or in leathern purse retains A Splendid Shilling : he nor hears with pain New oysters... Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Страница 6901874Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 страници
...of Milton, is one of those preposterous conceits which even able men will sometimes entertain. T/te V E* V\b &q1 R[ z, , 5 ҫ L Vmʚ` . bޚ瘐f]d s0M,~" F&fVc tмR֗ 5 !bJ y Ĕ : TP ] ' " D pM ; Q 0 Happy the man, who, void of care and strife, In silken or in leathern purse retains A Splendid Shilling... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 386 страници
...exclamation of the Spaniard ; who said he had torn his " breeches, as if heaven and earth had come together." THE SPLENDID SHILLING. " Sing, heavenly muse, Things...or rhyme;" A shilling, breeches, and chimeras dire. Happy the man, who, void of cares and strife, In silken or in leathern purse retains A Splendid Shilling... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 290 страници
...exclamation of the Spaniard ; who said he had torn his " breeches, as if heaven and earth had come together." THE SPLENDID SHILLING. " Sing , heavenly muse, Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme ;" ji shilling, breeches, and chimeras dire. m Happy the man, who, void of cares and strife, In silken... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 416 страници
...exclamation of the Spaniard ; who said he had torn his " breeches, as if heaven and earth had come together." THE SPLENDID SHILLING. " Sing, heavenly muse, Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme?' JL shilling, breeches, and chimeras dire. Happy the man, who, void of cares and strife, In silken or... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 страници
...fame of Milton, is one of those preposterous conceits which even able men will sometimes entertain. The Splendid Shilling. ' Sing, heavenly muse ! Things...or rhyme, A shilling, breeches, and chimeras dire. Happy the man, who, void of care and strife, In silken or in leathern purse retains A Splendid Shilling:... | |
| George Gilfillan - 1860 - 362 страници
...Cider ' has soured with age, and the loud echo of his Blenheim battle-piece has long since died away. THE SPLENDID SHILLING. " Sing, heavenly Muse ! Things...or rhyme," A Shilling, Breeches, and Chimeras dire. Happy the man who, void of cares and strife, In silken or in leathern purse retains A Splendid Shilling... | |
| 1861 - 858 страници
...close, are as exquisitely mirth-provoking as anything of the mock-heroic order that we know : — " THE SPLENDID SHILLING. " ' Sing, heavenly Muse ! Things...or rhyme ? A shilling, Breeches and Chimeras dire.' " Happy the man who, void of cares and strife, In silken or in leathern purse retains A Splendid Shilling... | |
| 1874 - 804 страници
...works thou deemcst most divine — The ' Art of Cookery ' and mine. My Murray. Tours, travels, cssays, too, I wist. And sermons to thy mill bring grist !...Splendid Shilling" — " Sing, heavenly Muse ! Things unattcmpted yet in prose or rhyme, — A shilling, breeches, and chimeras dire." "These lines were... | |
| 1874 - 870 страници
...addresses and dedications, profuse of compliment, swell the pages to a very inconvenient extent, o£ generations of poets. One exception, however, we must...the argument of the "Splendid Shilling" — Sing, heavenlv muse ! Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme, — A shilling, breeches, and chimeras dire.... | |
| William T. Dobson - 1882 - 320 страници
...quotation, a parody on " Paradise Lost," considered by Steele to be the best burlesque poem extant. THE SPLENDID SHILLING. " ' Sing, heavenly muse ! Things...or rhyme,' A shilling, breeches, and chimeras dire. Happy the man, who, void of care and strife, In silken or in leathern purse retains A Splendid Shilling... | |
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