 Seapiece," in two odes. Young enjoys the credit of what is called an " Extempore Epigram on Voltaire ;" who, when he was in England, ridiculed, in the company of the jealous English poet, Milton's allegory of " Sin and Death" You are so witty, profligate,...  Lives of the English Poets: Swift-Lyttelton - 376 ページSamuel Johnson 著 - 1905全文表示 - この書籍について
 | Delphian Society - 1911 - 586 ページ
...Junior. 380 "Paradise Lost"—the following epigram from Dr. Young, the author of "Night Thoughts:" "You are so witty, profligate and thin, At once we think thee Milton, Death and Sin." The pious-minded Dr. Samuel Johnson, who ruled literature in England as Voltaire did in France, attacked... | |
 | Voltaire, Florence Donnell White - 1915 - 190 ページ
...episode of Death and Sin and the poet Young who was defending Milton was inspired to make an epigram: " You are so witty, profligate and thin, At once we think thee Milton, Death and Sin." Some years later Young referred to this incident in a poem called Sea Piece which he dedicated to Voltaire... | |
 | Georg Brandes - 1916 - 504 ページ
...med hvad han selv havde kaldt »den magre Skygge«, Døden, hos Milton, improviserede disse Linjer: You are so witty, profligate and thin, At once we think thee Milton, Death and Sin. Vist er det at hans Beundring for Milton ikke indbefattede Beundring for hans Allegorier. Men Beundringen... | |
 | Archibald Ballantyne - 1919 - 358 ページ
...shadow ' of Milton's Death, and spoke — but surely not in Voltaire's hearing — the lines : — You are so witty, profligate, and thin, At once we think thee Milton, Death, and Sin.1 Young in later years dedicated to Voltaire a very miserable metrical production which he entitled... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1826 - 604 ページ
...contains a singular mixture of compliment and abuse on the party to whom it is addressed. " Thou art so witty, profligate, and thin, At once we think thee Milton, Death, and Sin." His eyes were particularly brilliant in his youth, though he lamented in several of his publications,... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1883 - 452 ページ
...the spirit of a Mephistopheles. Dr. Young wrote the following pithy epigram on Voltaire : " Thou art so witty, profligate, and thin, At once we think thee Milton, death, and sin." Sterne was of a similar habit of mind and body. He was tall, thin, and pale. His countenance was eminently... | |
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