 | 1847 - 540 strani
...soft plume gives swiftness to the dart, Good-breeding sends the satire to the heart. YOUNG. 4. Curs'd be the verse, how well soe'er it flow, That tends...Give virtue scandal, innocence a fear, Or from the soft-eyed virgin steal a tear. POPE. 6. When satire flies abroad on falsehood's wing, Short is her... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 strani
...write at all ? A. Yes, silence if you keep, The town, the court, the wits, the dunces weep. Curs'd be the verse, how well soe'er it flow, That tends...man my foe, Give virtue scandal, innocence a fear, 285 Or from the soft-eyed virgin steal a tear ! But he who hurts a harmless neighbour's peace, Insults... | |
 | Ludwig Tieck - 1848 - 428 strani
...eine freie Ueberfe&ung, »enn er bie aîerfe ^5ope'e überfe|t: Curs'd be the verse, how well so'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe,...a fear, Or from the soft-ey'd virgin steal a tear! ein Sieb, ba$ jítgelloe ber Шч'фШЬ SRufc erfc&ííttert, SBobei bte JEIprán' tnê Slug erblaßter... | |
 | 1852 - 1458 strani
...— „His contemporaries, however uy revereaeed his genius, left his life unwritten." Johnson. — „Curst be the verse, how well soe'er it flow, that tends to make one worthy an my foe." Pope. — „Whatever thy fortune be, let me see thee once a JMr.* Goldsmith. — „This... | |
 | 1865 - 600 strani
...justly places all verse, that is not in the interest of general kindliness and benevolence. ' Cursed be the verse, how well soe'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foo ; Give virtue scandal ; innocence a fear ; Or from the soft-eyed virgin steal a tear.' ART. IX.... | |
 | Ludwig Tieck - 1974 - 412 strani
...Uebcrfefcung, »enn er bie SBerfe ^Jope'è iiberfc|t: Curs'd be the verse , how well so'cr it (low , That tends to make one worthy man my foe, Give virtue...a fear, Or from the soft-ey'd virgin steal a tear! ein Sieb, ba« jügelloä ber Unftf)utb «Hirt) crfc&üttert, SBobci bie j£(>ran' ine Slug crblafjter... | |
 | Yasmine Gooneratne - 1976 - 164 strani
...15-24) and in a paragraph that defends his satire : Curst be the Verse, how well soe'er it flow, 283 Give Virtue scandal, Innocence a fear, Or from the soft-ey'd Virgin steal a tear! . . . A Lash like mine no honest man shall dread, But all such babling blockheads in his stead. The... | |
 | Dennis Todd - 1995 - 366 strani
...keep / Rolls o'er my Grotto, and but sooths my Sleep"), not because he is another Thersites ("Cursed be the Verse, how well soe'er it flow, / That tends to make one worthy Man my foe"), and surely not out of a festering and self-tormenting malignancy that scorns all human kind — all... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 strani
...makes. 280 Poor guildess I! and can I choose but smile, When every coxcomb knows me by my style? Cursed be the verse, how well soe'er it flow, That tends...Give virtue scandal, innocence a fear, Or from the soft-eyed virgin steal a tear! But he who hurts a harmless neighbour's peace, Insults fallen worth,... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 strani
...'An Epistle to DrArbuthnot' A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest. 8861 'Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot' 8862 'An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot' (of his own father) Unleam'd, he knew no schoolman's subtle art,... | |
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