 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
 | Matthew Iley, J. M. Millingen - 1825 - 448 Seiten
...: 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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