To yield thy muse just half-a-crown per line? No! when the sons of song descend to trade, Their bays are sear, their former laurels fade. Let such forego the poet's sacred name, Who rack their brains for lucre, not for fame: Still for stern mammon may... English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers: A Satire - Page 6by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1809 - 54 pagesFull view - About this book
| Walter Scott - Poetry, English - 1857 - 428 pages
...per line? No! when the sons of song descend to trade, Their bays are sear, their former laurels fade. Let such forego the poet's sacred name, Who rack their brains for lucre, not for fame; Still for stern Mammon may they toil in vain ! And sadly gaze on gold they cannot gain ! an arrangement... | |
| Walter Scott - Poetry, English - 1857 - 420 pages
...line ? No ! when the sons of song descend to trade, Their bays are sear, their former laurels fade. Let such forego the poet's sacred name, Who rack their brains for lucre, not for fame ; Still for stern Mammon may they toil in vain ! an arrangement between an author and Ms publishers,... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1859 - 914 pages
...line ? No 1 when the sons of song descend to trade, Their bays are sere, their former laurels fade. s child, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-llpp'd shell, 6, not for fame : Still for stem Mammon may they toil in vain ! And sadly gaze on gold they cannot... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1861 - 734 pages
...per line? No! when the sons of song descend to trade, Their bays are sear, their former laurels fade. Let such forego the poet's sacred name, Who rack their...their meed, such still the just reward Of prostituted rause and hireling bard! For this we spurn Apollo's venal son, And bid a long "good-night to Marmion."*... | |
| Walter Scott - 1865 - 424 pages
...a commercial, rather than a proud and warlike age. This gross defect ought to have been remedied or Such be their meed, such still the just reward Of prostituted muse and hireling bardl For this we spurn Apollo's venal son, And bid a long ' Good-night to Marmion.' " BYRON'S Works,... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1866 - 292 pages
...line ? No! when the sons of song descend to trade, Their bays are sear, their former laurels fade. Let such forego the poet's sacred name, Who rack their brains for lucre,* not for fame: Still for stern Mammon may they toil in vain! And sadly gaze on gold they cannot gain! Such be their... | |
| Theodore Martin - Authors, English - 1867 - 396 pages
...— " No ! when the sons of song descend to trade, Their bays are sere, their former laurels fade ; Let such forego the poet's sacred name, Who rack their...just reward Of prostituted muse and hireling bard 1" Now these, although they have passed current in the world for some thirty years, are in reality... | |
| Henry George Bohn - Quotations - 1867 - 752 pages
...Ib. m.109-10. When the sons of song descend to trade, Their bays are sere, their former laurels fade. Let such forego the poet's sacred name, Who rack their brains for lucre not for fame. Byron, English Bards and Scotch Reweteeri Which deserves the laurel, rhyme or blank ? Which holds on... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1868 - 666 pages
...line? No 1 when the sons nf song descend to trade, Their bays ?.re scar, their former laurels fade. Let such forego the poet's sacred name, Who rack their...merited contempt, And scorn remunerate the mean attempt ! See the L(ty_ of the Last Minstrel, fnssim. Never was any plan so" incongruous and absurd as the... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Fore-edge painting - 1870 - 770 pages
...line ? No ! when the sons of song descend to trade, Their bays are sear, their former laurels fade. fnme : Still fur stern Mammon may they toil in vain ! And sadly gaze on gold they cannot gain ! Such... | |
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