Take 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 ; To JEFFREY go, be silent and discreet, His pay is just ten sterling pounds... English bards, and Scotch reviewers; a satire - Seite 6von George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1810Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1996 - 830 Seiten
...sheet: Fear not to lie, 'twill seem a sharper hit; Shrink not from blasphemy, 'twill pass for wit; Clare not for feeling - pass your proper jest, And stand a critic, hated yet caress'd. 75 And shall we own such judgment? no - as soon Seek roses in December - ice in June; Hope... | |
 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - 2001 - 636 Seiten
...forge a fault; A turn for punning, call it Attic salt . . . Fear not to lie, 'twill seem a sharper hit; Shrink not from blasphemy, 'twill pass for wit; Care not for feeling-pass your proper jest— And stand a critic, hated yet caressed. —Byron, English Bards and... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth - 1819
...to mis-quote ; A mind, well skill'd to find or forge u tault, A turn for punning call it attic salt; Fear not to lie 'twill seem a lucky hit, Shrink not from blasphemy, 'twill pass for wit; Care not f>.¡- fec'/ini/. pass your proper jest , And stand a critic, haled, yet caress'd. The Edinburgh Reviewers... | |
 | Matthew Iley, J. M. Millingen - 1825
...: Jeffrey. " 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." Scott. " And think'st thou, Scott, by vain conceit perchance, On public taste to foist thy stale romance,... | |
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