 He, who still wanting, tho' he lives on theft, Steals much, spends little, yet has nothing left: And He, who now to sense, now nonsense leaning, Means not, but blunders round about a meaning...  The Merry Monarch: Or, England Under Charles II. Its Art, Literature, and ... - Seite 280von William Henry Davenport Adams - 1885Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | George Willis - 1853 - 322 Seiten
...to severe." IV. 379. d'«ne voix legere Patter du grave au dome, du plaitant au severe. Boileau. " And he who now to sense, now nonsense leaning:, Means not but blunders round abuut a meaning." Epistle to Arbuthnot, 185. Johnson, author of the Victim and Cobler of Preston. It... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1854 - 338 Seiten
...34 Amb. Philips translated a book called the Persian Tales. He, who still wanting, though he lives on theft, Steals much, spends little, yet has nothing...: And he, who now to sense, now nonsense leaning, 185 Means not, but blunders round about a meaning : And he, whose fustian's so sublimely bad, It is... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1854 - 340 Seiten
...early editions— " Not that the things are either rich or rare, He, who still wanting, though he lives on theft, Steals much, spends little, yet has nothing...left: And he, who now to sense, now nonsense leaning, 18o Means not, but blunders round about a meaning: And he, whose fustian 's so sublimely bod, It is... | |
 | G. WILLIS - 1854
...to severe." IV. 879. d'une voix leyere Passer du grave au doua:, du plaisant au severe. Boileau. " And he who now to sense, now nonsense leaning, Means not but blunders round about a meaning." Epietle to Arbuthnot, 185. Johnson, author of the Victim and Cobler of Preston. It is not poetry but... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 592 Seiten
...him as "fat Johnson," and in his " Fragment of a Satire " has tins spoken of him : — ' ' Jo — n, who now to sense, now nonsense, leaning. Means not, but blunders round about a meaning." 1 Lewis Theobald, the editor of Shakespeare, and the hero of the first Dunciad. Died 1744. in every... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 612 Seiten
...barrenness appear, And strain from hard-bound brains, eight llnes a year. Pope's Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnat. And he whose fustian's so sublimely bad, It is not poetry, but prose run mad. Pope's EpisOe ta Dr. АrЬatiаиЛ. That flattery ev'n to kings, he held a shame, And... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 Seiten
...appear, And strains from hard-bound brains eight lines a year ; He who, still wanting, though he lives on theft, Steals much, spends little, yet has nothing...but blunders round about a meaning : And he, whose fustian 's so sublimely bad, It is not poetry, but prose run mad : 1 ' A Persian tale : ' Ambrose Philips... | |
 | Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 Seiten
...appear, And strains from hard-bound brains eight lines a year ; He who, still wanting, though he lives on theft, Steals much, spends little, yet has nothing...but blunders round about a meaning : And he, whose fustian 's so sublimely bad, It is not poetry, but prose run mad : 1 « A Persian tale : ' Ambrose... | |
 | 1857 - 818 Seiten
...editor of the Quarterly sends us a printed report of a speech delivered by an AB, of the class of '57, " Who now to sense, now nonsense leaning, Means not, but blunders round about a meaning." We give a part of one or two of the best sentences : — " It is to a heavenly and not an earthly tribunal,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 Seiten
...pastorals renown, Who turns a Persian tale for half-a-crown ;n He, who still wanting, though he lives on theft, Steals much, spends little, yet has nothing...fustian's so sublimely bad, It is not poetry, but prose run mad ; All these my modest satire bade translate, And own'd that nine such poets made a Tate.... | |
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