 In thy felonious heart tho' venom lies, It does but touch thy Irish pen, and dies. Thy genius calls thee not to purchase fame In keen iambics, but mild anagram. Leave writing plays, and choose for thy command Some peaceful province in acrostic land. There...  The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected ... - Page 440by John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808Full view - About this book
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 pages
...thy felonious heart though venom lies, it does but touch thy Irish pen, and dies. Thy genius calls thee not to purchase fame in keen iambics, but mild...some peaceful province in acrostic land. There thou rnayst wings display and altars raise, and torture one poor word ten thousand ways. Or if thou wouldst... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 pages
...venom lies, (does but touch thy Irish pen, and dies. I'hy genius calls thee not to purchase fame n keen iambics, but mild anagram. Leave writing plays, and choose for thy command, ome peaceful province in acrostic land. There thou mayst wings display and altars raise, md torture... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 654 pages
...thy felonious heart though venom lies, It does but touch thy Irish pen, and dies. Thy genius calls LE. DIM as the borrow'd beams of Moon and stars To lonely, weary, writjng plays, and choose for thy command, Some peaceful province in Acrostic land. There thou mayst... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1813 - 610 pages
...attention of Shadwell to the studious cultivation of it, in his satire of Mac Flecknoe, in these lines : Leave writing plays, and choose for thy command Some...raise, And torture one poor word ten thousand ways. That Lord Westmoreland should have condescended to adopt this enigmatic mode from some of the minor... | |
 | 1845 - 808 pages
...genins calls thee not to purchase fame In keen Iambiet, but mild Anagram. Leave writing Plays, and chuse for thy command Some peaceful province in Acrostic...poor word ten thousand ways : Or if thou would'st thy diff'rent talents suit, Set thy own songs, and sing them to thy lute.' He said ; but his last words... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1819 - 644 pages
...thy felonious heart though v^nom lies, It does hut touch thy Irish pen, and dies. Thy genius calls thee not to purchase fame In keen Iambics, but mild Anagram. Leave writing p!a\ s, and choose for thy command, Some peaceful province in Acrostic land. There thou mayst wings... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 476 pages
...writing plays, and chusefor thy command, Some peaceful province in Acrostic land. There thou may'sl wings display, and altars raise, And torture one poor word ten thousand ways. — P. 440. Among other efforts of gentle dulness, may be noticed the singular fashion which prevailed... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...but mild anagram. Leave writing plays, and ehoose for thy eommand Some peaeeful provinee in aerostie s. The sun, that light imparts to all, reeeives From all his alimental reeompense In humid exhalatio OF if thou wouldst thy different talents suit, Set thy own songs, and sing them to thy lute. He said... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 pages
...felonious heart, though venom lies, It does but touch thy Irish pen, and dies. Thy genius calls thce rp' comm.ind Some peaceful province in Acrostic land. There thou may'st wings display, and altars raise,... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...Irish pen, and dies. Thy genius calls thee not to purchase fame In keen Iambics,1 but mild Anagram.2 Leave writing plays, and choose for thy command Some...suit, Set thy own songs, and sing them to thy lute." THE CHARACTER OF A GOOD PARSON.3 AllRIDGED. A PARISH priest was of the pilgrim train ; An awful, reverend,... | |
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