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 Satirevon George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1809 - 85 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Horace Smith - 1892 - 164 Seiten
...ready made. Take hackney'd jokes from Miller, got by rote, With just enough of learning to misquote ; A mind well skilled to find or forge a fault ; A turn...— 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... | |
| John Bulloch, John Alexander Henderson - 1892 - 252 Seiten
...with raking up the affair of the duel, even linked his name with the infamous Judge Jeffreys : — "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... | |
| John Bulloch - 1892 - 250 Seiten
...affair of the duel, even linked his name with the infamous Judge Jeffreys : — "To Jeffrey go, he 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... | |
| Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1894 - 282 Seiten
...hackneyed 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...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 not... | |
| Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1894 - 280 Seiten
...hackneyed 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...discreet His pay is just ten sterling pounds per sheet : Fear not to He, 'twill seem a sharper hit ; Shrink not from blasphemy, 'twill pass for wit ; Care... | |
| Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1894 - 296 Seiten
...hackneyed 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...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... | |
| Charles Mackay - 1896 - 680 Seiten
...ready-made. Take hackneyed jokes from Miller, got by rote, With just enough of learning to miscjuotc ; A mind well skilled to find or forge a fault ; A turn...discreet, His pay is just ten sterling pounds per sheet Fear not to lie, 'twill teem a lucky hit; Shrink not from blasphemy, 'twill past for wit; Care not... | |
| 1896 - 1224 Seiten
...hackney'd jokes from Miller, got by role, With just enough of learning to misquote ; A mind well skill'd ch Ado About Nothing. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 63. You ; Fear not to lie, 'twill seem a lucky hit ; Shrink not from blasphemy, 'twill pass for wit; Care not... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1896 - 692 Seiten
...422af.: A man must serve his time to ev'ry trade Save censure — critics all are ready made').... To Jeffrey go, be silent and discreet, His pay is just ten sterling pounds per sheet: Fear not to lie, 't will seem a sharper hit 2) ; Shrink not from blasphemy, 't will pass for wit; Care... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1896 - 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... | |
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