 | Robert Southey - 1807 - 512 Seiten
...1684—1738. The man who returned Thompson's Wetter to him with this foolish and impertinent couplet. Beauties and faults so thick lie scattered here, Those I could read if these were not so near. By Gibber's account he seems to have been vicious and dishonest. He was called Sir Robert... | |
 | 1871 - 808 Seiten
...! " When Thomson sent a presentation copy of his Winter to Joseph Mitchell, the latter wrote back : Beauties and faults so thick lie scattered here, Those I could read if these were not so near. An ungracious acknowledgment of the gift, stinging the poet to reply : Why all not faults,... | |
 | 1903 - 664 Seiten
..." The man who returned Thompson's ' Werter ' to him with this foolish and impertmeut couplet : — Beauties and faults so thick lie scattered here. Those I could read, if these were not so near." " Thompson's ' Werter' " is a curious and somewhat recondite substitute for Thomson's... | |
 | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - 1890 - 468 Seiten
...roenig barinne, roaè паф feinen ©ebanfen 511 billigen roäre, unb íфi<fte i^m fotgenbe fteiim ju: Beauties and faults so thick lie scattered here, Those i could read, if these were not so near. bi ©фопЬейеп unb gebier liegen í)ter febr bide unter la einanber. $Ф ïonnte... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1871 - 828 Seiten
...! " When Thomson sent a presentation copy of his Winter to Joseph Mitchell, the latter wrote back : Beauties and faults so thick lie scattered here, Those I could read if these were not so near. An ungracious acknowledgment of the gift, stinging the poet to reply : Why all not faults,... | |
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Beauties and faults so thick lie scattered here, Those I could read if these were not so near. 