 And think'st thou, Scott, by vain conceit perchance, On public taste to foist thy stale romance, Though Murray with his Miller may combine To yield thy muse just half-a-crown per line ? No ! when the sons of song descend to trade, Their bays are sear,...  English bards, and Scotch reviewers; a satire - Seite 11von George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1810Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1821 - 420 Seiten
...something between a freebooter and a knight, .H-., ;. •• . " Now forging scrolls, riowforemost in the fight, Not quite a felon, yet but half a knight." Hence we trace the unconnected wanderings of a noble, but ruined spirit in Manfred ; and hence we wonder... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1822 - 102 Seiten
...black-letter Ballad imitations. Now forging scrolls, now foremost in the fight ; Not quite a Fe!on, yet but half a Knight ; The gibbet or the field prepared...perchance., On public taste to foist thy stale romance, Though MURRAY with his MILLER may combine To yield thy muse just haif-a-crown per line? No! when the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1822 - 106 Seiten
...disgrace his genius; which is undoubtedly great, by a repetition of black-letter Ballad imitations. i Now forging scrolls, now foremost in the fight; Not...mixture of the great and base. And think'st thou, SCOTT I by vain conceit percViance, On public taste to foist thy stale romance, Though MURRAY with his MILLER... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1822 - 498 Seiten
...shield a knave. Next view in state, proud prancing on his roan, The golden-crested haughty Marmion, 160 Now forging scrolls, now foremost in the fight, Not quite a felon, yet but half a knight, * The Biography of Gilpin Homer, and the marvellous pedestrian page, who travelled twice as fast as his master's... | |
 | 1820 - 558 Seiten
...mournful to the blast.' And the following are from twenty lines which he bestows on " Marmion :" ' And think'st thou, SCOTT ! by vain conceit perchance. On public taste to foist thy stale romance,8 Though MURRAY with his MILLER may combine To yield thy muse just half-a-Hirown per line ?... | |
 | John Mathew Gutch - 1822 - 584 Seiten
...whose points, he may find at last, are dangerous often to those they protect î — but to proceed. " Not quite a felon, yet but half a knight, The gibbet or the field prepar'd to grace, A mighty mixture of the great and base;" may well apply to him, who makes a trade... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Walter Blunt - 1824 - 446 Seiten
...inconsistency. Hence we have the soldier of Flodden Field, something between a freebooter and a knight, " Now forging scrolls, now foremost in the fight, Not quite a felon, yet but half a knight." Hence we trace the unconnected wanderings of a noble, but ruined spirit in Manfred ; and hence we wonder... | |
 | 1824 - 446 Seiten
...inconsistency, Hence we nave the soldier of Flodden Field, something between a freebooter and a knight, " Now forging scrolls, now foremost in the fight, Not quite a felon, yet but half a knight." Hence we trace the unconnected wanderings of a noble, but ruined spirit in Manfred ; and hence we wonder... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1824 - 478 Seiten
...knave. Next in view in state, proud prancing on his roan, The golden-crested haughty Marmion, -169 Now forging scrolls, now foremost in the fight, Not quite a felon, yet bat half a knight ; The gibbet or the field prepared to grace, A mighty mixture of the great and base.... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824 - 340 Seiten
...shield a knave. Next view in state proud prancing on his roan, The golden-crested haughty Marmion, Now forging scrolls, now foremost in the fight, Not quite a felon, yet hut half a knight, The gihhet or the field prepared to grace J A mighty mixture of the great and hase.... | |
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