 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
 | John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 Seiten
...discreet, His pay is just ten sterling pounds per sheet : Fear not to lie, 'twill seem a lucky hit ; 71 let me blood, and not restore What I have lost with...there was wine ю Before my sighs did dry it ; there caress'd. And shall we own such judgment? no — as soon Seek roses in December, ice in June ; Hope... | |
 | A. G. Barnes - 1926 - 208 Seiten
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 | Joseph Auslander, Frank Ernest Hill, Theresa West Elmendorf - 1927 - 488 Seiten
...where none existed. Fear not to lie, 'twill seem a sharper hit; Shrink not from blasphemy, 'twill pas» for wit; Care not for feeling — pass your proper jest. And stand a critic, hated but caressed. The poem did not stop with reviewers. It slashed out at the poets who were then writing:... | |
 | 1928 - 732 Seiten
...explored. — /. MB Editorial Dinner Echoes (Continued) SHOULD A BOOK REVIEWER EVER TELL THE TRUTH (BBG) "Fear not to lie, 'twill seem a lucky hit ; Shrink...pass your proper jest, And stand a critic, hated yet caress'd." — Byron. C INCE it is illegal to kill a liar, they often go through life quite happily... | |
 | 1891 - 760 Seiten
...Jeffreys : — * "To Jeffrey go, be silent and discreet, Ilis pay is just ten sterling pounds per sheet ; Fear not to lie, 'twill seem a lucky hit, Shrink not...proper jest, And stand a Critic hated, yet caressed." "Can none remember that eventful day, That ever-glorious, almost fatal fray, When Little's leadless... | |
 | 1939 - 450 Seiten
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