 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
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 480 Seiten
...line? No ! wheii 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, (5) not for fame: Constable, Murray, and Miller, worshipful booksellers, in consideration of the receipt... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1841 - 380 Seiten
...are aear, their former laurels fade. Let such forego the poet's sacred name, Who rack their hrains for lucre, not for fame : Low may they sink to merited...contempt, And scorn remunerate the mean attempt ! Such he their meed, such still the just reward Of prostituted muse and hireling hard ! For this we spurn... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 848 Seiten
...line ? No! when the sons of song descend to trade, Their bays are sear, their former laurels fade. ulousness ; H z ; 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 - 1841 - 998 Seiten
...line? No ! when the sons of song descend to trade, Their bays are sear, their former laurels fade. hanged! and who That marks the fire still sparkling m each eye, \Vho bat (5) not for fame : Constable, Murray, and Miller, worshipful booksellers, in consideration of the receipt... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1842 - 866 Seiten
...line ? No 1 when the sons of song descend to trade, Their bays are sear, their former laurels fade. 6, not for fame : Still for stern Mammon may they toil in vain 1 And sadly gaze on gold they cannot... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - 1847 - 372 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 their... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1847 - 880 Seiten
...line ? No ! when the sons of song descend to trade, Their bays are sear, their former laurels fade. , ", 6, not for fame : Still for stern Mammon may they toil in vain ! And sadly gaze on gold they cannot... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1848 - 428 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 : Slill for stern Mammon may they toil in vain, And sadly gaze on gold they cannot gain ! Such be their... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow - 1853 - 616 Seiten
...line ; No ! when the sons of song descend to trade, Their bays Hre 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, Anil sadly gaze on gold they cannot gain ; Such be their... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1126 Seiten
...line? No ! when the sons of song descend ta trade, Their bays are sear, their former laurels fade. e1 : Still for stern Mammon may they toil in vain, And sadly gaze on gold they cannot gain ! Such be their... | |
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