 | Jonathan Swift - 1884 - 334 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1882 - 544 páginas
...lower than it was. Though plays for honour iu 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 - 1893 - 566 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. to He says, poor Poets lost, while Players won, As Pimps grow rich, while Gallants are undone. Though... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1893 - 588 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. 10 He says, poor Poets lost, while Players won, As Pimps grow rich, while Gallants are undone. Though... | |
 | William Henry Kearley Wright - 1896 - 508 páginas
...tune with him. The author of the prologue to Tom D'Urfey's last play thus speaks ot him : ' Though Tom the poet writ with ease and pleasure, The comic Tom abounds in other treasure.' JRC SONG IN PRAISE OF THE BONNY MILKMAID. Ye nymphs and sylvan gods that love green fields and woods,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1903 - 704 páginas
...lower than it was. Thl/ plays for honour in old time he made, T is now for better reasons — to be paid. Believe him, he has known the world too long, And seen the death of much immortal song. 10 He says, poor poets lost, while players won, As pimps grow rich while gallants are undone. Though... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 páginas
...Credit lower than it was. Tho' 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. Tho'... | |
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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... 
