 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 480 pages
...flatter'd ev'ry day, and some days eat ; 240 Till grown more frugal in his riper days, He paid some bards with port, and some with praise ; To some a dry rehearsal...assign'd, And others (harder still) he paid in kind. Dry den alone ( what wonder ? ) came not nigh, 24 5 Dryden alone escap'd this judging eye, But still... | |
 | English poetry - 1796 - 500 pages
...240 Till grown more frugal in his riper days, He paid some bards with port, and some with prai'e ; To some a dry rehearsal was assign'd, And others (harder still) he paid in kind. Drydenalone (what wonder?) came not nigh, 245 Dryden alone escap'd this judging eye, But stil! the... | |
 | Juvenal - 1802 - 574 pages
...in part from this animated passage: " Till grown more frugal in his riper days, " He paid some bards with port, and some with praise; " To some a dry rehearsal...assign'd, " And others, harder still! he paid in kind." Where every door, secur'd by iron plates, Is watch'd, like a beleagur'd city's gates. Nay, he will... | |
 | 1803 - 572 pages
...in part from this animated yassagc : " Till grown more frugal in his riper days, He paid some bards with port, and some with praise ; To some a dry rehearsal...assign'd, And others, harder still ! he paid in kind." Mr. Gifford acknowleges his obligations to the Rev. Mr. Ireland, Vicar of Croydon, and to Abraham More,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 190 pages
...flatter'd ev'ry day, and some days ate ; 240 Till grown more frugal in his riper days, He paid some bards with port, and some with praise ; To some a dry rehearsal...assign'd, And others (harder still) he paid in kind. Dryden alone (what wonder ?) came not nigh ; 245 Dryden alone escap'd this judging eye : But still... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...flatter'd every day, and some days eat: Till grown more frngal in his riper days, He paid some bards with port, and some with praise; To some a dry rehearsal...assign'd, And others (harder still) he paid in kind. Diyden alone (what wonder i) came not nigh ; Dryden alone escap'd his judging eye : But still the great... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 288 pages
...flatter'd every day, and some days eat; 940 Till grown more frugal in his riper days, He paid some bards with port, and some with praise ; To some a dry rehearsal...assign'd, And others (harder still) he paid in kind. Dryden alone (what wonder!) came not nigh; 545 Dryden alone escap'd this judging eye: But still the... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 388 pages
...flatter1* every day, and some days eat: Till grown more frugal in his riper days, He paid some hards with port, and some with praise . To some a dry rehearsal...assign'd, And others (harder still) he paid in kind. Drydeo alone (what wonder?) came not nigh ; Dryden alone escap'd this judging eye : But still the great... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1808 - 702 pages
...flattcr'd every day, and somo days .eat; Till, grown more frugal in his riper days, He paid some bards with port, and some with praise; To some a dry rehearsal was assign'd, And other.) (harder still) he paid in kind. Dryden alone (what wonder?) came not nigh ; Pryden alone escap'd... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...flatter'd every day, and some days eat : Till grown more frugal in his riper days, He paid some bards with port, and some with praise , To some a dry rehearsal...assign'd, And others (harder still) he paid in kind. Diy d( n alone (what wonder ') came not nigh , Dryden alone escap'd this jndging eye : But still the... | |
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Till grown more frugal in his riper days, He paid some bards with port, and some with praise ; To some a dry rehearsal was assign'd, And others (harder still) he paid in kind. 
