 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 דפים
...praise. With what a shifting gale yo\ir course you ply, For ever sunk too low, or borne too high ; Who pants for glory finds but short repose ; A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows. Farewel the stage ! if, just as thrives the play, The silly bard grows fat, or falls away. There still... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 388 דפים
...of praise, With what a shifting gale your course yon ply, For ever sunk too low, or borne too high ! Who pants for glory finds but short repose ; A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows. Farewell the stage! if just as thrives the play The silly hard grows fat or fall away. > Sir Johu Vanbrtigh.... | |
 | 1809 - 402 דפים
...With what a shifting gale your course you ply, Farerer sunk too low, or borue too high ! Who pant* for glory finds but short repose , A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows. Firewel the stage ! if, just as thrives the ptayj The silly bard grows fat, or foils away. There still... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 דפים
...praise, Witli what a shifting gale your course you ply, For ever sunk too low, or borne too high ; Who pants for glory finds but short repose, A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows. 1 J Farewell the stage ! if, just as thrives the play, The silly bard grows fat, or falls away. '*... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1822 - 312 דפים
...before it satisfied his taste. BURNS'S anxiety in finishing his poems was great ; " all my poetry," says he, " is the effect of easy composition, but of laborious...ROMNEY undertook to commence the first subject for the Shakespeare Gallery, in the rapture of enthusiasm, amidst that sublime and pathetic labouring in his... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 294 דפים
...or by pun. With what a shifting gale your course you ply, For ever sunk too low, or borne too high! Who pants for glory finds but short repose; A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows. Farewell the stage ! if just as thrives the play The silly bard grows fat or falls away. There still... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 290 דפים
...or by pun. With what a shifting gale your course you ply, For ever sunk too low, or borne too high ! Who pants for glory finds but short repose; A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows. Farewell the stage! if just as thrives the play The silly bard grows fat or falls away. There still... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 דפים
...of praise. With what a shifting gale your course you ply, For ever sunk too low, or borne too high ! Who pants for glory finds but short repose, A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows. farewell the stage 1 if just as thrives the play, The silly bard grows fat, or falls away. There still... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1824 - 378 דפים
...Praise, With what a shifting gale your course you ply ! F«r ever sunk too low, or borne too high. Who pants for glory, finds but short repose ; A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows." Excessive Study, induced by that love of learning which frequently fastens on the minds ot scholars,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 דפים
...of praise, Wtth what a shifting gale your course you ply, For ever sunk too low, or borne too high ; Who pants for glory finds but short repose ; A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows. Farewell the stage ! if, just as thrives the play, .The silly bard grows fat, or falls away. There... | |
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But fill their purse, our poet's work is done, Alike to them, by pathos or by pun. O you ! whom vanity's light bark conveys On fame's mad voyage by the wind of praise, With what a shifting gale your course you ply, For ever sunk too low, or born too high!... 
