 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
 | Edmund Gosse - 1891 - 460 pages
...numbers feebly creep ; Thy tragic muse gives smiles, thy comic sleep. With whate'er gall thou set'st thyself to write, Thy inoffensive satires never bite...thou would'st thy different talents suit, Set thy own sonijs, and sing them to thy lute. ' He said : — but his last words were scarcely heard ; For Bruce... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1892 - 1116 pages
...Elizabethan age, acrostics soon sank into disrepute. Dryden scornfully bids the hero of his " Macflecknoe" ,— Another error is a conceit that . the best has .still prevailed and suppressed the And Addison gives the acrostic a high place among his examples of false wit. A fashion that is not... | |
 | William Shepard Walsh - 1892 - 1114 pages
...Elizabethan age, acrostics soon sank into disrepute. Dryden scornfully bids the hero of his " Macflecknoe" Leave writing plays, and choose for thy command Some peaceful province in acrostic land. And Addison gives the acrostic a high place among his examples of false wit. A fashion that is not... | |
 | John Dryden - 1885 - 476 pages
...comic sleep. With whate'er gall thou sett'st thyself to write, Thy inoffensive satires never bite ; *oo In thy felonious heart though venom lies, It does...anagram. Leave writing plays, and choose for thy command, 2°5 Some peaceful province in Acrostic land. There thou may'st wings display, and altars raise,! *... | |
 | John Dryden - 1893 - 194 pages
...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...Some peaceful province in Acrostic land. " There thou mayest wings display and altars raise, I " And torture one poor word ten thousand ways ; 200 I " Or,... | |
 | John Dryden, William Dougal Christie - 1893 - 780 pages
...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..." Leave writing plays, and choose for thy command 205 " So-ne peaceful province in Acrostic land. " There thou mayest wings display and altars raise,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1893 - 236 pages
...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...Anagram. " Leave writing plays, and choose for thy coinn " Some peaceful province in Acrostic land. " There tliou niayest wings displny and altars r "... | |
 | William Hall Griffin - 1897 - 408 pages
...felonious heart though venom lies, It does but touch thy Irish pen, and dies. Thy genius calls tbee not to purchase fame In keen Iambics, but mild Anagram....display and altars raise, And torture one poor word one thousand ways; Or, if thou would thy different talents suit, Set thy own songs, and sing them to... | |
 | William Hall Griffin - 1897 - 406 pages
...felonious heart though venom lies, It docs but touch thy Irish pen, and dies. Thy genius calls thec not to purchase fame In keen Iambics, but mild Anagram....display and altars raise, And torture one poor word one thousand ways ; Or, if thou would thy different talents suit, Set thy own songs, and sing them... | |
 | William Hall Griffin - 1897 - 406 pages
...does but touch thy Irish pen, and dies. Thy genius calls thcc not to purchase fame In keen Iambies, but mild Anagram. Leave writing plays, and choose...display and altars raise, And torture one poor word one thousand ways ; Or, if thou would thy different talents suit, Set thy own songs, and sing them... | |
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