 | Alexander Pope - 1882 - 544 ページ
...thy claim resign, allow his right : For Duck can thresh, you know, as well as write.' ON MRS. TOFTS,1 A CELEBRATED OPERA-SINGER. So bright is thy beauty,...the beasts and their Orpheus along ; But such is thy av'rice, and such is thy pride, That the beasts must have starv'd, and the poet have died. ' Stephen... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy, James Riddell, George William Clark - 1890 - 522 ページ
...petunt. 256 Fаr good distinguished and for ill. 0 bright is i by beauty, so charming i by song, they had drawn both the beasts and their Orpheus along ; but such is thine avarice, such is thy pride, the beasts mast have starved, and the poet have died. POPE. Whose... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1891 - 340 ページ
...: For Duck can thresh, you know, as well as write. ON MRS. TOFTS, I A CELEBRATED OPERA-SINGER.i JO bright is thy beauty, so charming thy song, As had...pride, That the beasts must have starved, and the poets have died. EPIGRAM. OTJ beat your pate, and fancy wit will come : Knock as you please, there's... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1891 - 336 ページ
...right : For Duck can thresh, you know, as well as write. ON MRS. TOFTS, A CELEBRATED OPEEA-SINGEK.1 |O bright is thy beauty, so charming thy song, As had...thy avarice, and such is thy pride, That the beasts nmst have starved, and the poets have died. EPIGRAM. OU beat your pate, and fancy wit will come : Knock... | |
 | John Gay - 1893 - 402 ページ
...quitted the stage in 1709, having lost her reason. The following epigram upon her is attributed to Pope : So bright is thy beauty, so charming thy song, As...thy pride, That the beasts must have starved, and Orpheus have died. The royal Dane, blest consort of the Queen (line 217). Queen Anne married, in 1683,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1893 - 588 ページ
...Sheffield, Duke of BuckinghamMilton's Sonnets. Carmthers. shire, see note to Essay on Criticism, v. 724.] ON MRS TOFTS, A CELEBRATED OPERA-SINGER'. SO bright...the Beasts and their Orpheus along; But such is thy Av'rice, and such is thy Pride, That the Beasts must have starv'd, and the Poet have died. EPIGRAM... | |
 | John Gay - 1893 - 384 ページ
...quitted the stage in 1709, having lost her reason. The following epigram upon her is attributed to Pope : So bright is thy beauty, so charming thy song, As...the beasts and their Orpheus along ; But such is thy ararice, and such is thy pride, That the beasts must hare starved, and Orpheus have died. The royal... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1893 - 566 ページ
...note to Essay oil Criticism, v. 724.] 3° MISCELLANEO US. ON MRS TOFTS, A CELEBRATED OPERA-SINGER1. SO bright is thy Beauty, so charming thy Song, As...the Beasts and their Orpheus along; But such is thy Av'rice, and such is thy Pride, That the Beasts must have starv'd, and the Poet have died. EPIGRAM... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1900 - 524 ページ
...Spain. These lines on the subject were never more applicable than they have now become : " Now Europe's balanced ; neither side prevails, For nothing's left in either of the scales." If we pursue the same policy, we must travel the same road and endure the same burdens under which... | |
 | Walter Sichel - 1901 - 584 ページ
...sold her kisses to thirty gentlemen at a guinea apiece. Every one remembers Pope's epigram : — " So bright is thy beauty, so charming thy song, As...the beasts and their Orpheus along ; But such is thy av'rice, and such is thy pride, That the beasts .must have starved and the poet have died."2 It is... | |
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So bright is thy beauty, so charming thy song, As had drawn both the beasts and their Orpheus along : But such is thy avarice, and such is thy pride, That the beasts must have starved, and the poet have died. THE BALANCE OF EUROPE. Now Europe balanced,... 
