 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.  La Belle Assemblée - Sida 151809Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Jacques Delille - 1824 - 474 sidor
...(where busts of poets dead, And a true Pindar stood without a head) Receiv'd of wits an undistinguish'd race, Who first his judgment ask'd, and then a place:...and some with praise ; To some a dry rehearsal was assign 'd, And others (harder still) he paid in kind. Dryden alone (what wonder !) came not nigh ;... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 498 sidor
...(where busts of poets dead And a true Pindar stood without a head) Received of wits an undistinguish'd race, Who first his judgment ask'd, and then a place...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 praise,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 494 sidor
...busts of poets dead 235 And a true Pindar stood without a head) Received of wits an undistinguish'd race, Who first his judgment ask'd, and then a place...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 praise,... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1824 - 406 sidor
...(where busts of poets dead And a true Pindar stood without a head) Received of wits an undistinguish'd race, Who first his judgment ask'd, and then a place...extoll'd his pictures, much his seat, And flatter'd every day, and some days eat : Till grown more frugal in his riper days, He paid some bards with port,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 sidor
...(where busts of poets dead And a true Pindar stood without a head), Receiv'd of wits an undistinguish'd tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast...buxom health, of rosy hue: Wild wit, invention eve every day, and some days eat; Till, grown more frugal in his riper days. He paid some bards with port,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 sidor
...judgment ask'd, and then a plaee ; Mueh they extoll'd his pietures, .mueh his seat, And flatter'd every restrains him, government and Dryden alone (what wonder ! ) eame not nigh, Dryden alone eseap'd this judging eye : But still the... | |
 | Juvenal - 1825 - 234 sidor
...he had himself turned poet. — The Bufo of Pope is shadowed out in part from this animated passage: Till grown more frugal in his riper days, He paid...and some with praise ; To some a dry rehearsal was assigned ; And others, hardet still ! he paid in kind. G. 38. Uni cedit Homero] In his own conceit... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 sidor
...(where busts of poets dead, And a true Pindar stood without a head) Received of wits an undistinguish'd race, Who first his judgment ask'd, and then a place...extoll'd his pictures, much his seat, And flatter'd every day, and some days eat : Till grown more frugal in his riper days, He paid some bards with port,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 sidor
...(where busts of poete dead, And a true Pindar stood without a head) Received of wits an undietinguish'd race, Who first his judgment ask'd, and then a place...Much they extoll'd his pictures, much his seat, And fiatter'd every day, and some days eat ; Till, grown more frugal in hie riper days, He paid some bards... | |
 | John Aikin - 1826 - 840 sidor
...(where busts of poets dead And a true Pindar stood without a head) Receiv'd of wits an undistinguiVhM race, Who first his judgment ask'd, and then a place;...extoll'd his pictures, much his seat, And flatter'd every day, and some days eat ; Till, grown more frugal in his riper days He paid some bards with port,... | |
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