 | 1877 - 564 Seiten
...singer. Pope illustrates his own meaning in * following line, where he says : — " Slander and poison dread from Delia's rage, Hard words or hanging if your judge be Payt " (meaning Sir Francis Page, the hanging judge, 1718-41). Wakefield's idea that "hitch" was 344... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 Seiten
...those poems is a couplet, to which belongs a story related by the Rev. Dr. Ridley: Slander or poison dread from Delia's rage ; Hard words, or hanging, if your judge be **** Fir Francis Page conceiving that his name was meant to till up the blank, sent In clt;rk to complain... | |
 | John Keefe Robinson - 1850 - 162 Seiten
...of Horace." In one of these poems is a couplet, to which the story relates:— " Slander or poison dread from Delia's rage, Hard words, or hanging, if your judge be * * *." Sir Francis Page, a judge well known in his time, conceiving that his name was meant to fill... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - 1852 - 440 Seiten
...a Judge of " hanging " notoriety, whom Pope has " damn'd to everlasting fame." " Poison, or slander dread, from Delia's rage, Hard words, or hanging, if your Judge be Page." .IMITATIONS OF HORACE. " And dies if Dulness gives her Page the word." DUNCIAD. In Johnson's Life of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 450 Seiten
...but the 4i Afterwards Sir Francis Page (died 1741), and made immortal by Pope: — Slander or poison dread from Delia's rage, Hard words or hanging— if your judge be Page. To Mr. Fortcscac. Pope is said to have had Savage's case in recollection when he wrote the couplet.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 344 Seiten
...couplet, to which belongs a story that 1 once heard the Kev. Dr. Ridley relate : " Slander or poison dread from Delia's rage ; Hard words, or hanging, if your judge be * * * *." Sir Francis Page, a judge well known in his time, conceiving that his name was meant to fill... | |
 | Frederick Lawrence - 1855 - 430 Seiten
...Mod. Rep. 265. Page's coarseness and severity are also commemorated by Pope : — " Slander or poison dread from Delia's rage : Hard words or hanging, if your judge be Page." In June, 1741, died Fielding's father, the General, at the age of sixty-five. His decease is recorded... | |
 | Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 Seiten
...Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song. so Slander or poison dread from Delia's rage, Hard words or hanging, if your judge be Page. From furious Sappho scarce a milder fate, Pox'd by her love, or libell'd by her hate. Its proper power to hurt, each creature... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 Seiten
...Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song. so Slander or poison dread from Delia's rage, Hard words or hanging, if your judge be Page. From furious Sappho scarce a milder fate, Pox'd by her love, or libell'd by her hate. Its proper power to hurt, each creature... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 384 Seiten
...rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burden of some merry song. Slander or poison dread from Delia's rage ; Hard words or hanging, if your judge be Page ;" From furious Sappho1 scarce a milder fate, Pox'd by her love, or libell'd by her hate. Its proper power to hurt... | |
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Slander or poison dread from Delia's rage ; Hard words or hanging, if your judge be Page ; From furious Sappho scarce a milder fate, Px'd by her love, or libell'd by her hate. 
