 | Augustine Birrell - 1910 - 344 ページ
...muse may give thee, but the gods must guide : Reverent I touch thee, but with honest zeal, To rouse the watchmen of the public weal, To Virtue's work provoke the tardy Hall And goad the prelate slumb'ring in his stall. Ye tinsel insects ! whom a court maintains, That count your beauties only... | |
 | Ernest Bernbaum - 1918 - 422 ページ
...Muse may give thee, but the gods must guide : Reverent I touch thee! but with honest zeal, To rouse the watchmen of the public weal; To virtue's work provoke the tardy hall, And goad the prelate slumbering in his stall. Ye tinsel insects ! whom a court maintains, That counts your beauties only... | |
 | M. M. Banaji - 1922 - 536 ページ
...Muse may give thee, but the Gods must guide. Reverent I touch thee, but with honest zeal, To rouse the watchmen of the public weal, To virtue's work provoke the tardy Hall And goad the prelate slumb'ring in his stall. Ye tinsel insects ! whom a court maintains, That count your beauties only... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1923 - 430 ページ
...Muse may give thee, but the gods must guide: Reverent I touch thee, but with honest zeal, To rouse the watchmen of the public weal, To Virtue's work provoke the tardy Hall, And goad the prelate slumb'ring in his stall. Ye tinsel insects ! whom a court maintains, That counts your beauties only... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1923 - 430 ページ
...Muse may give thee, but the gods must guide: Reverent I touch thee, but with honest zeal, To rouse the watchmen of the public weal, To Virtue's work provoke the tardy Hall, And goad the prelate slumb'ring in his stall. Ye tinsel insects! whom a court maintains. That counts your beauties only... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1926 - 306 ページ
...may give thee, but the Gods must guide : ns Rev'rent I touch thee ! but with honest zeal ; To rouse the Watchmen of the public Weal, To Virtue's work provoke the tardy Hall, And goad the Prelate slumb'ring in his Stall. Ye tinsel Insects ! whom a Court maintains, **> That counts your Beauties... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1926 - 744 ページ
...Gods must guide. Rev'rent I touch thee ! but with honest zeal ; To rouse the Watchmen of the Publick Weal, To Virtue's Work provoke the tardy Hall, And goad the Prelate slumb'ring in his Stall. Ye tinsel Insects ! whom a Court maintains, That counts your Beauties only... | |
 | Yasmine Gooneratne - 1976 - 164 ページ
...Gods must guide. Rev'rent I touch thee! but with honest zeal; To rowze the Watchmen of the Publick Weal, To Virtue's Work provoke the tardy Hall, And goad the Prelate slumb'ring in his Stall. 2 See Imitations of Horace, Book I, Epistle I (1738), lines 11-16. Here verse... | |
 | William Bowman Piper - 1997 - 212 ページ
...Gods must guide. Rev'rent I touch thee! but with honest zeal; 5 To rowze the Watchmen of the Publick Weal, To Virtue's Work provoke the tardy Hall, And goad the Prelate slumb'ring in his Stall. There is also a patch of such heroic language in the first dialogue of the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 ページ
...The muse may give thee, but the God must guide: Reverent I touch thee! but with honest zeal; To rouse the watchmen of the public weal, To virtue's work provoke the tardy Hall, And goad the prelate slumbering in his stall. Ye tinsel insects! whom a court maintains, 220 That counts your beauties only... | |
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I touch thee ! but with honest zeal, To rouse the watchmen of the public weal, To virtue's work provoke the tardy hall, And goad the prelate, slumbering in his stall. 
