 | 1797 - 454 Seiten
...little breath should raise, Would that havespoil'd the poet's song, Or pufTd away the monarch's praise f Pindar, that eagle, mounts the skies, While Virtue leads the noble way; Too like a vulture Boileau flies, Where sordid int'rest shews the prey. When once the poet's honour ceases, From reason... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 448 Seiten
...breath should raise, "Would that have spoil'd the poet's song, Or puft''d away the monarch's praise ? Pindar, that eagle, mounts the skies, While Virtue leads the noble way; Too like a vulture Boileau flies, Where sordid interest shews the prey. When once the poet's honour ceases, From reason... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 466 Seiten
...should raise, Would that have spoil'd the poet's song, Or puff'd away the monarch's praise ? J'indar, that eagle, mounts the skies, While Virtue leads the noble way; Too like a vulture Boileau flies, Where sordid interest shews the prey. When once the poet's honour ceases, From reason... | |
 | Alexander Graydon, John Galt - 1822 - 454 Seiten
...mentisque benignas Ni benefacta sui celebrasset carmen Horati, Et Maro munificum cecinisset gratus amicum ? &c. &c. Might not one here be tempted to exclaim,...reciprocity in the proposal, and that, whatever the carmen Horati vel Maronis might have been worth, that of Mr Beveridge did not amount to a very valuable consideration.... | |
 | Alexander Graydon - 1822 - 454 Seiten
...gratus amicum ? &c. &c. Might not one here be tempted to exclaim, in the spirit of Prior to Eoileau ! Pindar, that eagle mounts the skies, ., While virtue leads the noble way : Too like a vulture Bcv'ridge flies Where sordid int'rest lures the prey. I never heard, however, that the poet was the... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 312 Seiten
...breath should raise, Would that have spoil'd the poet's song, Or pufFd away the monarch's praise ? Pindar, that eagle, mounts the skies, While Virtue leads the noble way ; Too like a vulture Boileau flies, Where sordid interest shows the prey. When once the poet's honour ceases, From reason... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 804 Seiten
...show His rage of love ; it preys upon his life ; He pines, he sickens, he despairs, he dies. Additm. Lb9 < .Ѓ d T %YW' #AN"( ! 6 I ŷ ݇ 6 MY " -n _X I B Boileau flies, Where sordid interest shews the prey. Prior. Their impious folly dared to prty On herds... | |
 | Alexander Graydon - 1846 - 530 Seiten
...mentisque benigna Ni benefacta sui celebrasset carmen Horati, Et Maro munificum cccinissct gratus amicum ? &c. &c. Might not one here be tempted to exclaim in...reciprocity in the proposal, and that, whatever the carmen Horati vel Maronis might have been worth, that of Mr. Beveridge did not amount to a very valuable consideration.... | |
 | Alexander Graydon - 1846 - 534 Seiten
...mentisque benignee Ni benefacta sui cclebrasset carmen Horati, Et Maro munificum cecinissct gratus amicum ? &.C. &,c. Might not one here be tempted to exclaim...leads the noble way : Too like a vulture Bev'ridge flics Where sordid iut'rest lures the prey. I never heard, however, that the poet was the better for... | |
 | Alexander Graydon - 1846 - 532 Seiten
...benignaj Ni benefacta sui celebrasset carmen Horati, Et Maro munificum cecinisset gratus amicum 1 \-c. &.C. Might not one here be tempted to exclaim in the...virtue leads the noble way : « Too like a vulture Bec'ridge flies Where sordid int'rest lures the prey. I never heard, however, that the poet was the... | |
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Where sordid interest shows the prey. When once the poet's honour ceases, From reason far his transports rove ; And Boileau, for eight hundred pieces, Makes Louis take the wall of Jove. 
