 | Charles Vaughan Grinfield - 1855 - 80 sidor
...fans, altars, angels, temples, and many more such. Their delight was, as Dryden expresses it : — " There thou mayst wings display, and altars raise, And torture one poor word ten thousand ways." We have only space to give one more recent Acrostic on the word News. N orth sends us much of great... | |
 | C. V. G. - 1855 - 80 sidor
...fans, altars, angels, temples, and many more such. Their delight was, as Dryden expresses it : — " There thou mayst wings display, and altars raise, And torture one poor word ten thousand ways." We have only space to give one more recent Acrostic on the word News. N orth sends us much of great... | |
 | John Dryden - 1856 - 568 sidor
...In thy felonious art though venom lies. It does but touch thy Irish pen, and dies. Thy genius calls thee not to purchase fame In keen Iambics, but mild...torture one poor word ten thousand ways. Or, if thou would st thy different talents suit, Set thy own songs, ana sing them to thy lute." He said ; but his... | |
 | John Dryden - 1856 - 592 sidor
...In thy felonious art though venom lies. It does but touch thy Irish pen, and dies. Thy genius calls thee not to purchase fame In keen Iambics, but mild...for thy. command, Some peaceful province in Acrostic laud. "There thou may'st wings display aod altars raise, And torturt "tone poor word tea thousand waya.Tyf,... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1859 - 512 sidor
...play of Shadweira. Thy genius calls thee not to purchase fame In keen Iambics,1 but mild Anagram.2 Leave writing plays, and choose for thy command Some...in Acrostic land ; There thou mayst wings display, aud altars raise, And torture one poor word ten thousand ways. Or, if thou wouldst thy different talents... | |
 | Henry Benjamin Wheatley - 1862 - 212 sidor
...writing plays, and chuse for thy command Some peaceful province in acrostick land. There thou may's! wings display and altars raise, And torture one poor word ten thousand ways." In Samuel Butler's " Genuine Eemains," 2 * A writer in the Quarterly Review says of this work that... | |
 | Double acrostics - 1862 - 208 sidor
...LADIES' POETICAL MISCELLANY." EDITED BY EDMUND SYEE FULCHEE. BY VARIOTJS ATJTHORS EDITED It Y KL " Leave writing plays, and choose for thy command Some peaceful province in Acrostick land i There thou may'st wings display and altars raise. And torture one poor word a thousand... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 720 sidor
...thy felonious heart, though venom lies, It does but touch thy Irish pen, and dies. Thy genius calls thee not to purchase fame In keen Iambics, but mild...And torture one poor word ten thousand ways. Or, if thoa wouldst thy diff'rent talents suit, Set ttiy own songs, and sing them to thy lute. » He said... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 738 sidor
...thy felonious heart, though venom lies, It does but touch thy Irish pen, and dies. Thy genius calls thee not to purchase fame In keen Iambics, but mild...And torture one poor word ten thousand ways. Or, if thoj wouldst thy diff'rent talents suit, Set thy own songs, and sing them to thy lute. » He said :... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 722 sidor
...thy felonious heart, though venom lies, It does but touch thy Irish pen, and dies. Thy genius calls thee not to purchase fame In keen Iambics, but mild...command Some peaceful province in Acrostic land. There Ihou may'st wings display, and altars raise. And torture one roor word ten thousand ways. Or, if thoi... | |
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In thy felonious heart tho' venom lies, It does but touch thy Irish pen, and dies. Thy genius calls thee not to purchase fame In keen iambics, but mild anagram. Leave writing plays, and choose for thy command Some peaceful province in acrostic land. There... 
