| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 648 Seiten
...monthly wits. Content if some few friends indulge my name, So slightly am I stung with love of fame,' I would not scrawl one hundred idle lines — Not...praise of all the magazines. Yet once a moon, perhaps, 1 steal a night ; And, if our sire Apollo pleases, write, [follow, You smile : but all the train the... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 656 Seiten
...indulge my name, So slightly am I stung with love of fame, I would not scrawl one hundred idle Inns, — Not for the praise of all the magazines. Yet once a moon, perhaps, 1 steal a night ; And, if our sire Apollo pleases, write, [follow, You smile: but all the train the... | |
| John Armstrong, John Dyer, George Gilfillan, Matthew Green - 1858 - 314 Seiten
...monthly wits. Content if some few friends indulge my name, So slightly am I stung with love of fame, I would not scrawl one hundred idle lines — Not...quote Apollo. Unhappy still our poets will rehearse 20 To Goths, that stare astonished at their verse; To the rank tribes submit their virgin lays : So... | |
| John Armstrong, John Dyer, George Gilfillan, Matthew Green - 1858 - 314 Seiten
...monthly wits. Content if some few friends indulge my name, So slightly am I stung with love of fame, I would not scrawl one hundred idle lines — Not...follow, Christians and dunces, still we quote Apollo. 1 ' A worthy gentleman : ' John Wilkes, we believe. Unhappy still our poets will rehearse 20 To Gotha,... | |
| John Armstrong - 1868 - 330 Seiten
...monthly wits. Content if some few friends indulge my name, So slightly am I stung with love of fame, I would not scrawl one hundred idle lines — Not...steal a night; And, if our sire Apollo pleases, write. Y ou smile ; but all the train the Muse that follow, Christians and dunces, still we quote Apollo.... | |
| John Armstrong (Physician & Poet.) - 1880 - 692 Seiten
...monthly wits. Content if some few friends indulge my name, So slightly am I stung with love of fame, I would not scrawl one hundred idle lines — Not...follow, Christians and dunces, still we quote Apollo. 1 ' A worthy gentleman : ' John WUkes, we believe. Unhappy still our poets will rehearse 20 To Goths,... | |
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