 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - 530 Seiten
...studied ; as they felt, they writ : Intrigue was plot, obscenity was wit Vice always found a sympathetic friend ; They pleas'd their age, and did not aim to mend. Yet bards like these aspir'd to lasting praise, And proudly hop'd to pimp in future days. Their cause was gen'ral,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1868 - 578 Seiten
...fame. Themselves they studied; as they felt, they STUDIES OF SHAKSPERE. Vice always found a sympathetic friend ; They pleas'd their age, and did not aim to mend. Yet bards like these aspir'd to lasting praise, And proudly hop'd to pimp in future days. Their cause was gen'ral,... | |
 | Walter Scott, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William) Turner - 1869 - 486 Seiten
...studied, as they felt they writ ; Intrigue wa-* plot, obscenity was witVice always fonnd a syrnpaihetic friend, They pleas'd their age, and did not aim to mend. Yet b;t ds like these aspir'd to lasting praise, And proudly hoped to p mp in future days. Their cause... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - 1909 - 1334 Seiten
...studied; as they felt, they writ; intrigue was plot, obscenity was wit. Vice always found a sympathetic friend; They pleas'd their age, and did not aim to mend. Yet bards like these aspir'd to lasting praise, And proudly hoped to pimp in future days. Their cause was gen'ral,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 Seiten
...studied, as they felt they writ; Intrigue was plot, obscenity was wit. 20 Vice always found a sympathetic friend; They pleas'd their age, and did not aim to mend. Yet bards like these aspir'd to lasting praise, And proudly hoped to pimp in future days. Their cause was gen'ral,... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - 1915 - 852 Seiten
...studied; as they felt, they writ; Intrigue was plot, obscenity was wit. 20 Vice always found a sympathetic friend; They pleas'd their age, and did not aim to mend. Yet bards like these aspir'd to lasting praise, And proudly hoped to pimp in future days. Their cause was gen'ral,... | |
 | Iolo Aneurin Williams - 1923 - 524 Seiten
...studied, as they felt they writ ; Intrigue was plot, obscenity was wit. Vice always found a sympathetic friend ; They pleas'd their age, and did not aim to mend. Yet bards like these aspir'd to lasting praise, And proudly hop'd to pimp in future days. Their cause was gen'ral,... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1926 - 744 Seiten
...studied, as they felt, they writ, Intrigue was Plot, Obscenity was Wit. Vice always found a sympathetick Friend ; They pleas'd their Age, and did not aim to mend. Yet Bards like these aspir'd to lasting Praise, And proudly hop'd to pimp in future Days. Their Cause was gen'ral,... | |
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Vice always found a sympathetic friend; They pleas'd their Age, and did not aim to mend. Yet Bards like these aspir'd to lasting Praise, And proudly hop'd to pimp in future days. 
