 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1853 - 972 pagine
...eoon lost — in yonder House or Hall : There truant Wyndham ev'ry muse gave o'er ; There Talbot sank, and was a wit no more ; How sweet an Ovid, MURRAY, was our boast Ï How many Martiale were in Pulteney lost!" Some years elapsed after Mr. Murray's call to the bar... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1853 - 906 pagine
...given a week to Liddesdalc, in company with Mr Shortreed, he spent a few days at Rosebank, ana 1 TIow sweet an Ovid, Murray was our boast; How many Martials were in Pult'ney lost.—Dunciad, iv. 170. was preparing to return to Edinburgh for the winter, when he received... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 362 pagine
...the charm works only in our wall, Lost, lost too soon in yonder House or Hall.1 There truant Wyndham every Muse gave o'er, There Talbot sunk, and was a...our boast ! How many Martials were in Pulteney lost ! 170 Else sure some bard, to our eternal praise, In twice ten thousand rhyming nights and days, Had... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 676 pagine
...the charm works only in our wall, Lost, lost too soon in yonder house or hall. There truant Wyndham every muse gave o'er, There Talbot sunk, and was a...How sweet an Ovid, Murray, was our boast ! How many Martinis were in Pulteney lost ! Else sure some bard, to our eternal praise, lu twice ten thousand... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1856 - 962 pagine
...soon lost — in yonder House or Hall : There truant Wyndham ev'ry muse gave o'er ; There Talbot sank, and was a wit no more ; How sweet an Ovid, MURRAY,...our boast! How many Martials were in Pulteney lost!" Some years elapsed after Mr. Murray's call to the bar before he had any business of importance ; and... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 512 pagine
...our wall, Lost, lost too soon in yonder house or hall. ^ There truant Windham every muse gave o er ; There Talbot sunk, and was a wit no more! How sweet...Ovid, Murray was our boast! How many Martials were iti Pulteney lost! Else sure some bard, to our eternal praise In twice ten thousand rhyming nights... | |
 | George William Frederick Howard Earl of Carlisle - 1856 - 640 pagine
...assumes that the great orator Pulteney would have displayed i;' he had not been engrossed by politics. " How sweet an Ovid, Murray, was our boast ; How many Martials were in Pulteney lost." These were for the most part his political friends, but when he mentions Sir Robert Walpole, to whom... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 384 pagine
...the charm works only in our wall, Lost, lost too soon in yonder house or hall. There truant Wyndham every muse gave o'er, There Talbot sunk, and was a...our boast ! How many Martials were in Pulteney lost! Else sure some bard, to our eternal praise, In twice ten thousand rhyming nights and days, Had reach'... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 504 pagine
...charm works only in our wall, Lost, lost too soon in yonder house or hall lo. There truant WYNDHAM r w, 1 How sweet an Ovid, MURRAY, was our boast ! How many Martials were in PULTENEY lost 1 Else sure some... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 542 pagine
...the charm works only in our wall, Lost, lost too soon in yonder house or hall.* There truant WYNDHAM every muse gave o'er, There TALBOT sunk, and was a wit no more ! How sweet an Ovid, MUREAY was our boast ! How many Martials were in PULTENEY lost ! Else sure some bard, to our eternal... | |
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We hang one jingling padlock on the mind: A poet the first day he dips his quill; And what the last ? a very poet still. Pity the charm works only in our wall! 
