 Railing in other men may be a crime, But ought to pass for mere instinct in him; Instinct he follows and no farther knows, For to write verse with him is to transprose. 'Twere pity treason at his door to lay, Who makes heaven's gate a lock to its own...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 3671845Full view - About this book
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 410 pages
...him ; Instinct he follows, and no farther knows, For to write verse with him is to transpose : 'Twere pity, treason at his door to lay, Who makes Heaven's...key. Let him rail on : let his invective muse Have four-and-twenty letters to abuse, Which if he jumbles to one line of sense, Indict him of a capital... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 412 pages
...Heaven's gate a lock to its own key. Let him rail on : let his invective muse Have four-and-twenty letters to abuse, Which if he jumbles to one line...capital offence. In fireworks give him leave to vent his spite, Those are the only serpents he can write ; The height of his ambition is, we know, But to be... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 474 pages
...knows, For, to write verse with him is to trans-prose ;* A'Twere pity treason at his door to lay, Mf Ac makes heaven's gate a lock to its own key. Let him rail on, let his invective muse Have four-and-twenty letters to abuse, Which if he jumbles to one line of sense, Indict him of a capital... | |
 | 1822 - 314 pages
...him; Instinct he follows, and no farther knows, For to write verse with him is to transpose : Twere pity treason at his door to lay, Who makes Heaven's...key. Let him rail on ; let his invective muse Have four-and-twenty letters to abuse, Which if he jumbles to one line of sense, Indict him of a capital... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 316 pages
...Heaven's gate a lock to its own key. Let him rail on ; let his invective muse Have four-and-twenty letters to abuse, Which if he jumbles to one line...capital offence. In fireworks give him leave to vent his spite, Those are the only serpents he can write ; The height of his ambition is, we know, But to be... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 856 pages
...at tirir »opposed errours fall back with a rebounded force upon our own real ones. Decay of Piety. e then regulated only by their own opinions, and not by any fundamental princip Drydfn. 1 cannot blame him for inmghmg so sharply ur-'wl the vices of the clergy in his age. Id. One... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 482 pages
...witty satirist. Dr. Young, alludes in his epistle to Pope, •on the authors of the age i 1 T were pity treason at his door to lay, Who makes heaven's...capital offence. In fireworks give him leave to vent his spite, Those are the only serpents he can write ; The height of his ambition is, we know, But to be... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 478 pages
...Spit streamu of flrc to make the hutchers gape. And found his manners suite J to his shape. JW 'T were pity treason at his door to lay, Who makes heaven's...his invective muse Have four and twenty letters to ahuse, Which if he jumhles to one line of sense, Indict him of a capital offence. In fireworks give... | |
 | 1845 - 814 pages
...him : Instinct he follows and no further knows, For to write veree with him is to transprose. 'Twere pity treason at his door to lay, Who makes heaven's gate a leek to its own key : Let him rail on, let his invective Muse Have four and twenty letters to abuse,... | |
 | John Wilson - 1846 - 360 pages
...him: Instinct he follows and no further knows, For to write verses with him is to transpose. "Twere pity treason at his door to lay, Who makes heaven's...gate a lock to its own key: Let him rail on, let his inventive Muse Have four-and-twenty letters to abuse, Which, if he jumbles to one line of sense, Indict... | |
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