 To yield thy muse just half-a-crown per line? No! when the sons of song descend to trade, Their bays are sear, their former laurels fade. Let such forego the poet's sacred name, Who rack their brains for lucre, not for fame: Still for stern mammon may...  English bards, and Scotch reviewers; a satire - Seite 12von George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1810Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Free Library of Philadelphia - 1898 - 112 Seiten
...? " No 1 when the sons of song descend to trade " Their bays are sere, their former laurels fade. " Let such forego the poet's sacred name, " Who rack their brains for lucre, not for fame." This, with more in the same strain, is pretty tolerable fustian from an author who received ^15,455... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1898 - 536 Seiten
...trade, Their bays are sear, their former laurels fade. Let such forego the poet's sacred name, Who rach their brains for lucre, not for fame : Low may they sink to mcrited contempt, And scorn remunerate the mean attempt." Now, is it not almost incredible that this... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1900 - 420 Seiten
...line ? No ! when the sons of song descend to trade, Their bays are sear, their former laurels fade. Let such forego the poet's sacred name, Who rack their brains for lucre, not for fame ; Still for stern Mammon may they toil in vain ! And sadly gaze on gold they cannot gain ! Such be... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1900 - 782 Seiten
...line ? No I when the sons of song descend to trade, Their bays are sear, their former laurels fade. Let such forego the poet's sacred name, Who rack their brains for lucre, not for fame ; Still for stern Mammon may they toil in vain 1 And sadly gaze on gold they cannot gain ! Such be... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1903 - 532 Seiten
...LINE ? No ! when the sons of song descend to trade, Their bays are sear, their former laurels fade. Let such forego the poet's sacred name, Who rack their...contempt, And scorn remunerate the mean attempt." Now, is it not almost incredible that this very Murray (the only remaining one of the booksellers whom... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1903 - 532 Seiten
...LtNE? No ! when the sons of song descend to trade, Their bays are sear, their former laurels fade. Let such forego the poet's sacred name, Who rack their...contempt, And scorn remunerate the mean attempt." Now, is it not almost incredible that this very Murray (the only remaining one of the booksellers whom... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1903 - 530 Seiten
...LINE? No ! when the sons of song descend to trade, Their bays are sear, their former laurels fade. I^et such forego the poet's sacred name, Who rack their...brains for lucre, not for fame: Low may they sink to meriteti contempt, And scorn remunerate the mean attempt." this same Murray? and, what is a yet more... | |
 | Charles Herbert Sylvester - 1903 - 362 Seiten
...line ? No ! when the sons of song descend to trade, Their bays are sere, their former laurels fade, Let such forego the poet's sacred name, Who rack their brains for lucre, not for fame ; Still for stern Mammon may they toil in vain ! And sadly gaze on gold they cannot gain ! Such be... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1092 Seiten
...line ? No ! when the sons of song descend to trade, Their bays are sere, their former laurels fade. ars are met, And on the wave is deeper blue, And on the leaf a browner hue, 10 And in Still for stern Mammon may they toil in vain, And sadly gaze on gold they cannot gain ! Such be their... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1088 Seiten
...line? No ! when the sons of song descend to trade, Their bays are sere, their former laurels fade. Still for stern Mammon may they toil in Such be their meed, such still the just reward igi Of prostituted... | |
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