 d to find or forge a fault; A turn for punning, call it Attic salt; To Jeffrey go, be silent and discreet, His pay is just ten sterling pounds per sheet: Fear not to lie, 'twill seem a sharper hit ; Shrink not from blasphemy, 'twill pass for wit; Care...  English bards, and Scotch reviewers; a satire - Seite 6von George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1810Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Epigrammatists - 1870 - 654 Seiten
...haekney'd jokes from Miller, got by rote. With just enough of learning to misquote ; A mind well skill'J to find or forge a fault, A turn for punning, call...silent and discreet, His pay is just ten sterling ;«>un<Is per sheet : Fear not to lie, 'twill seem a lucky hit ; Shrink not from blasphemy, 'twill... | |
 | John Tillotson - 1870 - 1154 Seiten
...of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow ; There's nothing true but Heaven." 1. " A mind well skilled to find or forge a fault ; A turn for punning — call it Attic salt." 2. " Thanks, my lord, for your venison, for finer or fatte Never ranged in a forest or smoked in a... | |
 | Henry Philip Dodd - 1870 - 652 Seiten
...Miller, got by rote, With just enough of learning to misquote ; A mind well skillM to find or forgo a fault, A turn for punning, call it Attic salt ; To .Jeffrey go, he silent and discreet, His pay is just ten sterling pounds per sheet : Fear not to lie, 'twill sec:na... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1872 - 776 Seiten
...learning to misquote ; A r.iind well skill'd to find or forge a fault ; A turn for punning,—call it Attic salt ; To Jeffrey go ; be silent and discreet, His pay is just ten sterling pounds per sheet. Fear not to lie, 'twill seem a lucky hit ; Shrink not from blasphemy, 'twill pass for wit ; Care not... | |
 | Henry Philip Dodd - 1875 - 768 Seiten
...hackney'd jokes from Miller, got by rote, With j ust enougli of learning to misquote ; A mind well skillM to find or forge a fault, A turn for punning, call...discreet, His pay is just ten sterling pounds per sheet : Fear not to lie, 'twill seem a lucky hit ; Shrink not from blasphemy, 'twill pass for wit ; Care... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 Seiten
...hackney'd jokes from Miller, got by rote, With just enough of learning to misquote ; A mind well skill'd to find or forge a fault; A turn for punning — call it Attic salt. BYRON. A modern critic is a thing who runs All ways, all risks, to evitate his duns: Let but an author... | |
 | 1876 - 612 Seiten
...the first three numbers ; and Sydney Smith's account of enclosing bills must have been a joke : — ' To Jeffrey go, be silent and discreet ; His pay is just ten sterling pounds per sheet.' This (as Jeffrey states) was frequently much exceeded; but Sydney Smith's mode of charging per article... | |
 | 1876 - 848 Seiten
...the first three numbers ; and Sydney Smith's account of enclosing bills must have been a joke : — To Jeffrey go, be silent and discreet ; His pay is just ten sterling pounds per sheet. This (as Jeffrey states) was frequently much exceeded ; but Sydney Smith's mode of charging per article... | |
 | 1876 - 618 Seiten
...first three numbers ; and Sydney. Smith's account of enclosing bills must have been a joke : — ' To Jeffrey go, be silent and discreet ; His pay is just ten sterling pounds per sheet.' This (as Jeffrey states) was frequently much exceeded ; but' Sydney Smith's mode of charging per article... | |
 | 1877 - 362 Seiten
...from -Miller, got by rote, With just enough of learning to misquote : A mind well skill'd to firel or forge a fault, A turn for punning, call it Attic...discreet, His pay is just ten sterling pounds per sheet : Fear not to lie. 'twill seem a lucky hit ; Shrink not from blasphemy, 'twill pass for wit; Care not... | |
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