 | 1866 - 328 páginas
...lower than it was. Though plays for honour in old time he made, 'Tis now for better reasons — to be paid. Believe him, he has known the world too long,...won, As pimps grow rich while gallants are undone. Though Tom the poet writ with ease and pleasure, The comic Tom abounds in other treasure. Fame is at... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 626 páginas
...than it was. Though plays for honour in old time he made ; 'Tis now, for better reasons, — to be paid. Believe him, he has known the world too long, And seen the death of much immortal song : 20 He says, poor poets lost, while players won, As pimps grow rich while gallants are undone. Though... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1869 - 570 páginas
...lower than it was. Though Plays for Honour in old time he made, 'Tis now for better Reasons — to be paid. Believe him, he has known the World too long, And seen the Death of much immortal Song. 70 He says, poor Poets lost, while Players won, As Pimps grow rich, while Gallants are undone. Though... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 páginas
...lower than it was. Though plays for honour in old time he made, 'Tis now for better reasons — to be paid. Believe him, he has known the world too long, And seen the death of much immortal song. 20 He says, poor poets lost, while players won, As pimps grow rich, while gallants are undone. Though... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1882 - 544 páginas
...lower than it was. Though plays for honour in old time he made, 'Tis now for better reasons — to be paid. Believe him, he has known the world too long, And seen the death of much immortal song. 20 He says, poor poets lost, while players won, As pimps grow rich, while gallants are undone. Though... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1882 - 550 páginas
...lower than it was. Though plays for honour in old time he made, "Pis now for better reasons—to be paid. Believe him, he has known the world too long, And seen the death of much immortal song. 20 He says, poor poets lost, while players won, As pimps grow rich, while gallants are undone. Though... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1883 - 480 páginas
...lower than it was. Though plays for honour in old time he made, 'Tis now for better reasons — to be paid. Believe him, he has known the world too long,...won, As pimps grow rich, while gallants are undone. Though Tom the poet writ with ease and pleasure,. The comic Tom abounds in other treasure. Fame is... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 480 páginas
...lower than it was. Though plays for honour in old time he made, 'Tis now for better reasons — to be paid. Believe him, he has known the world too long,...won, As pimps grow rich, while gallants are undone. Though Tom the poet writ with ease and pleasure,. The comic Tom abounds in other treasure. Fame is... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1883 - 480 páginas
...lower than it was. Though plays for honour in old time he made, 'Tis now for better reasons — to be paid. Believe him, he has known the world too long,...won, As pimps grow rich, while gallants are undone. Though Tom the poet writ with ease and pleasure, The comic Tom abounds in other treasure. Fame is at... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Stanley Lane-Poole - 1884 - 342 páginas
...writ before . . . Though plays for honour in old time he made, 'Tis now for better reasons, — to be paid. Believe him, he has known the world too long, And seen the death of much immortal song. Dennis was a trenchant critic and an inferior poet of the day, whose attacks upon Pope and upon Addison's... | |
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I'm afraid, If all your debts to Greece and Rome were paid. From this deep fund our author largely draws, Nor sinks his credit lower than it was. Though plays for honour in old time he made, 'Tis now for better reasons— to be paid. Believe him, he has... 
