 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 480 pages
...Much they extoll'd his pictures, much his seat, And flatter'd ev'ry day, and some days eat ; 240 Till grown more frugal in his riper days, He paid some...assign'd, And others (harder still) he paid in kind. Dry den alone ( what wonder ? ) came not nigh, 24 5 Dryden alone escap'd this judging eye, But still... | |
 | English poetry - 1796 - 500 pages
...Much they extoll'd his pictures, much his seat, And flatter'd ev'ry day, and some days eat ; 240 Till grown more frugal in his riper days, He paid some bards with port, and some with prai'e ; To some a dry rehearsal was assign'd, And others (harder still) he paid in kind. Drydenalone... | |
 | Juvenal - 1802 - 574 pages
...poet a handsome present. The Bufo of Pope is shadowed out in part from this animated passage: " Till grown more frugal in his riper days, " He paid some...assign'd, " And others, harder still! he paid in kind." Where every door, secur'd by iron plates, Is watch'd, like a beleagur'd city's gates. Nay, he will... | |
 | 1803 - 572 pages
...a handsome present. 4 The Bufo of Pope is shadowed out in part from this animated yassagc : " Till grown more frugal in his riper days, He paid some...assign'd, And others, harder still ! he paid in kind." Mr. Gifford acknowleges his obligations to the Rev. Mr. Ireland, Vicar of Croydon, and to Abraham More,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 190 pages
...Much they extoll'd his pictures, much his seat, And flatter'd ev'ry day, and some days ate ; 240 Till grown more frugal in his riper days, He paid some...assign'd, And others (harder still) he paid in kind. Dryden alone (what wonder ?) came not nigh ; 245 Dryden alone escap'd this judging eye : But still... | |
 | Juvenal - 1806 - 578 pages
...what sneaking ways #c.] The Bufo of Pope is shadowed out in part from this animated passage: ". Till grown more frugal in his riper days, " He paid some...paid in kind." There is a very good story told by Macrobius, which will not be much out of the way here. A Greek poet had presented Augustus Caesar with... | |
 | Juvenal - Satire, Latin - 1806 - 586 pages
...sneaking v:ni/s 3,-c.] The Bufo of Pope is shadowed out in part from this animated passage : " Till grown more frugal in his riper days, " He paid some...paid in kind." There is a very good story told by Macrobius, which will not be much out of the way here. A Greek poet had presented Augustus Caesar with... | |
 | Juvenal - Satire, Latin - 1806 - 572 pages
...in part from this animated passage: " Till grown more frugal in his riper days, " He paid some burds with port, and some with praise; " To some a dry rehearsal...paid in kind." There is a very good story told by Macrobius, which will not be much out of the way here. A Greek poet had presented Augustus Caesar with... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...; Much they extoll'd his pictures, much his seat, And flatter'd ev'ry day, and some days eat, Till, grown more frugal in his riper days, He paid some bards with port, and some with praise, f DR. YOUNG'S parasites and flatterers are painted with equal humour, and a generous contempt of servility... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...; Much they extoll'd his pictures, much his seat, And flatter'd ev'ry day, and some days eat. Till, grown more frugal in his riper days, He paid some bards with port, and some with praise.f DR. YOUNG'S parasites and flatterers are painted with equal humour, and a generous contempt... | |
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Till grown more frugal in his riper days, He paid some bards with port, and some with praise ; To some a dry rehearsal was assign'd, And others (harder still) he paid in kind. 
