Destroy his fib, or sophistry, in vain, The creature 's at his dirty work again, Thron'd in the centre of his thin designs, Proud of a vast extent of flimsy lines ! Whom have I hurt ? has poet yet, or peer, Lost the arch'd eye-brow, or Parnassian sneer? Letters, 1784-1789 - Страница 143по John Wilkes - 1805Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
| Robert Chambers - 1881 - 842 страници
...scribbler ? Break one cobweb through, He spins the slight, self-pleasing thread anew; Destroy his flb or sophistry: in vain ! The creature *s at his dirty work again. . . . One dedicatee in high heroic prose, And ridicules beyond a hundred foos : One from all Grub Street... | |
| Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 страници
...'Sdeath ! I '11 print it, And shame the fools.' Line 61. No creature smarts so little as a fool. Line 84. Destroy his fib, or sophistry — in vain ! The creature 's at his dirty work again. Line Ml. As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came. Line 127.... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1895 - 656 страници
...world. Who shames a scribbler ? break one cobweb thro', He spins the slight, self-pleasing thread anew : Destroy his fib, or sophistry, in vain, The creature 's at his dirty work again, Thron'd in the centre of his thin designs, Proud of a vast extent of flimsy lines ! Whom have I hurt... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1901 - 654 страници
...world. Who shames a scribbler ? break one cobweb 1hro', He spins the slight, self-pleasing thread anew : Destroy his fib, or sophistry, in vain, The creature 's at his dirty work again, Thron'd in the centre of his thin designs, Proud of a vast extent of flimsy lines ! Whom have I hurt?... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1902 - 456 страници
...profligacy of others, he is dte dupe of his own jaundiced feelings, and narrow, hood-winked perceptions. ' Destroy his fib or sophistry : in vain — The creature 's at his dirty work again ! ' But this is less from choice or perversity, than because he cannot help it and can do nothing else. He... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1902 - 860 страници
...Who shames a scribbler? Break one cobweb through, He spins the slight, self-pleasing thread anew : f 9 e f fEg f f f f f f g f g f f f f f g g`gag _ f T c N g g gYd ` K ela.e fFg \ Throned in the centre of his thin designs, Proud of a vast extent of flimsy lines. . . . One dedicates... | |
| 1903 - 1186 страници
...ei. 1 See Burton, page 191. No creature smarts so little as a fool. Prologue to the Satires. Line 84. Destroy his fib or sophistry — in vain ! The creature 's at his dirty work again. Line 91. As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. Line 127.... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1902 - 412 страници
...Who shames a scribbler ? break one cobweb through, He spins the slight, self-pleasing thread anew : . Destroy his fib or sophistry, in vain, The creature 's at his dirty work again — Proud of a vast extent of flimsy lines." Mr. Ulric now indulges us with another love affair, beginning... | |
| John Bartlett - 1903 - 1186 страници
...ei. 1 S.- Burton, page 191. No creature smarts so little as a fool. Prulogue to the Satiret. Line 84. Destroy his fib or sophistry — in vain ! The creature 's at his dirty work again. Line gj_ As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, • I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. /,,-„,.... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1903 - 704 страници
...Who shames a Scribbler ? break one cobweb thro', He spins the slight self-pleasing thread anew: go Destroy his fib, or sophistry — in vain! The creature 's at his dirty work again, Throned in the centre of his thin designs, Proud of a vast extent of flimsy lines. Whom have I hurt... | |
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