 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1895 - 308 Seiten
...metaphysical poets, as poets, the most sovereign contempt. That they have followers proves nothing — No Indian prince has to his palace More followers than a thief to the gallows. 1845 THE RAVEN | AND | OTHER POEMS. | By | Edgar A. New York: | Wiley and Putnam, 161... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 Seiten
...the golden hours, The early and the latter rain ! 6. WHITTIEK — For an Autumn Feitival. THIEVING. the gallows. o. BUTLER — Htulibras. Ft. 11. Canto I. L. 273. Kill a man's family, and he may brook... | |
 | Philip Hugh Dalbiac - 1897 - 526 Seiten
...Shakespeare. " No greater shame to man than inhumanitie." SPENSER. Faerie Qitecne, Bk. VI., Can. I., St. 26. " No Indian prince has to his palace More followers than a thief to the gallows." BUTLER. Hiuiibras, Pt. II., Can. I., line 273. " No is no negative in a woman's mouth."... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1900 - 452 Seiten
...Sanuon Agomitet, 971-974. The extremes of glory and of shame, Like East and West, become the same; No Indian prince has to his palace More followers than a thief to the gallows. BUTLEB, Mudibrat, Part II. Canto L 271-874. Who fears not to do ill, yet fears the name,... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1902 - 462 Seiten
...condition to estimate that religion or that philosophy by the mere number of its adherents: unluckily, No Indian Prince has to his palace More followers than a thief to the gallows. vra " If in any point," says Lord Bacon, " I have receded from what is commonly received,... | |
 | 1903 - 1186 Seiten
...by th' blow ; Some kick'd until they can feel whether A shoe be Spanish or neat's leather. Line 221. No Indian prince has to his palace More followers than a thief to the gallows. Line 273. Quoth she, I 've heard old cunning stagers Say fools for arguments use wagers.... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1902 - 448 Seiten
...estimate that religion, or that philosophy, by the mere number of its adherents : — unluckily, " No Indian Prince has to his palace More followers than a thief to the gallows.** In omitting to envelop our Gothic architecture in foliage, we omit, in fact, an essential... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1902 - 394 Seiten
...metaphysical poets, as poets, the most sovereign contempt. That they have followers proves nothing — The Indian prince has to his palace More followers than a thief to the gallows. DEDICATION TO THE EDITION OF 1845. To the Noblest of her Sex — To the Author of " The... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1903 - 586 Seiten
...deafens mortals' ears, As wise philosophers have thought, And that's the cause we hear it not.' a • No Indian prince has to his palace More followers than a thief to the gallows.' ! 'And in his nose, like Indian king, He (Bruin) wore for ornament a ring.' 4 ' Whose... | |
 | James Albert Harrison - 1903 - 564 Seiten
...metaphysical poets, as poets, the most sovereign contempt. That they have followers proves nothing — "The Indian prince has to his palace More followers than a thief to the gallows." POE TO THE " RICHMOND COURIER AND DAILY COMPILER." SEPTEMBER 2, 1836. WHILE Poe was editor... | |
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To sum up this long rigmarole, I have, dear B , what you no doubt perceive, for the metaphysical poets, as poets, the most sovereign contempt. That they have followers proves nothing — No Indian prince has to his palace More followers than a thief to... 
