 | Isaac Jack Reeve - 1865 - 232 sidor
...He sees* LOVERS' PUZZLING RHYMES. one but love I down and read I 0 thee 0 O me 0 to go 0 thee so " Leave writing plays, and choose for thy command, Some peaceful province in acrostic land." BUT little need here be said of the Acrostic, so frequently found in provincial newspapers, valentines,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1866 - 348 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...Acrostic land. There thou may'st Wings display and Altars-raise, And torture one poor word ten thousand ways. Or, if thou wouldst thy different talents... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1866 - 442 sidor
...does but touch thy Irish pen , and dies. Thy genius calls thee not to purchase fame In keen lambics, but mild Anagram. Leave writing plays , and choose...land. There thou may'st wings display, and altars raiso, And torture one poor word ten thousand ways. Or, if thou wouldst thy diffrent talents suit,... | |
 | 1866 - 520 sidor
...dying monarch of the realms of nonsense and dulness address his son and successor Shadwell : — " Leave writing plays, and choose for thy command Some peaceful province in acrostic land." The acrostic, being addressed merely to the eye, and conveying no pleasure either to the imagination... | |
 | Acrostics - 1866 - 280 sidor
...not of the earth, for of earth's baser part No trace can we find in thy form or thy heart. G. 339. " There thou may'st wings display, and altars raise, And torture one poor word a thousand ways." "I have here made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own... | |
 | John Dryden - 1867 - 556 sidor
...does but touch thy Irish pen, and dies. Thy genius calls thee not to purchase fame In keen Iambies, aa There thou may'st Wings display and Altars raise, tA-nd torture one poor word ten thousand ways.... | |
 | A. P. A. - 1869 - 226 sidor
... OUBLE 7-1CROSTICS, FROM THE POETS. &g apa " Choose for thy command. Some peaceful province in Acrostic- Land, There thou may's t Wings display, and Attars raise. And torture one po»r word ten thousand ways." — Drydtti,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1897 - 764 sidor
...plays, and choose for thy command 205 " Some peaceful province in Acrostic land. " There thou mayest wings display and altars raise, " And torture one...suit, " Set thy own songs, and sing them to thy lute." 2IO lie said, hut his last words were scarcely heard," For Bruce and Longville had a trap prepared,... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 572 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 thuu may'st wings display, and altars raise, And torture one poor word ten thousand ways ; Or, if thou... | |
 | Whetstones - 1872 - 182 sidor
...— Leave writing plays, and choose fur thy command Some peaceful province in acrostic land ; Where thou may'st wings display, and altars raise. And torture one poor word ten thousand ways. In the first volume of the " Spectator " Addison severely ridicules the passion for poems fancifully... | |
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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... 
