 But thou in clumsy verse, unlickt, unpointed, Hast shamefully defied the Lord's anointed. I will not rake the dunghill of thy crimes, For who would read thy life that reads thy rhymes ? But of King David's foes, be this the doom, May all be like the young...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 3681845Full view - About this book
 | 1895 - 610 pages
...But of king David's foes, be this the doom, May all be like the young man Absalom ; And for my foos may this their blessing be, To talk like Doeg, and to write like thee. No one, I think, can fail to recognize here the qualities which have already been set forth as specially... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1896 - 520 pages
...unpointed, Hast shamefully defied the Lord's anointed : I will not rake the dunghill of thy crimes, , But of king David's foes be this the doom, May all...blessing be, To talk like Doeg and to write like thee. TRADITION. [From Religio Laid ; November, 1682.] Must all tradition then be set aside? This to affirm... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 452 pages
...verse, unlicked, unpointed. Hast shamefully defied the Lord's anointed. I will not rake the dunghill of thy crimes, For who would read thy life that reads...be, — To talk like Doeg and to write like thee." Refinement of tone is not the distinguishing characteristic of satire of this sort. It does not attack... | |
 | Cecil Headlam - 1897 - 346 pages
...verse, unlick'd, unpointed, Hast shamefully defied the Lord's anointed : I will not rake the dunghill of thy crimes, For who would read thy life that reads...blessing be, To talk like Doeg, and to write like thee. From ' The Medal.' OF all our antic sights and pageantry, Which English idiots run in crowds to see,... | |
 | Cecil Headlam - 1897 - 348 pages
...verse, unlick'd, unpointed, Hast shamefully defied the Lord's anointed : I will not rake the dunghill of thy crimes, For who would read thy life that reads...blessing be, To talk like Doeg, and to write like thee. From ' The Medal: OF all our antic sights and pageantry, Which English idiots run in crowds to see,... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 430 pages
...anointed : I will not rake the dunghill of thy crimes, For who would read thy life that reads thy rhymes t But of King David's foes be this the doom, May all...blessing be, To talk like Doeg and to write like thee. TOU XT. — 11 THE BETRAYAL. BY THOMAS OTWAY. (From " Venice Preserved.") [THOMAS OTWAY, English dramatist,... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 434 pages
...verse, unlicked, unpointed, Hast shamefully defied the Lord's anointed : I will not rake the dunghill of thy crimes, For who would read thy life that reads...blessing be, To talk like Doeg and to write like thee. voi. xv. — 11 THE BETRAYAL. BY THOMAS OTWAY. (From " Venice Preserved.") [THOMAS OTWAY, English dramatist,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900 - 760 pages
...I will not rake the dunghill of thy crimes, For who would read thy life that reads thy rhymes ? 505 But of king David's foes be this the doom, May all...their blessing be, To talk like Doeg and to write like thee.t •tchitophel each rank, degree, and age 510 l•'or various ends neglecfs not to engage, The... | |
 | John Dryden - 1901 - 384 pages
...live in spite of their own dogrer rhymes.' And Dryden thus concludes an apostrophe to Shadwell : ' And for my foes may this their blessing be. To talk like Doeg and to write like thee.' The Hind and the Panther. Part I. Preface. P. 147, 1. 26. James II had issued his famous Declaration... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1902 - 222 pages
...thy rhymes ? But of king David's foes, be this the doom, May all be like the young man Absalom ; i And for my foes may this their blessing be, To talk like Doeg, and to write like thee. No one, I think, can fail to recognize here the qualities which have already been set forth as specially... | |
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