Whose every word is sense and law, For what his greatness hath decreed, Like laws of Persia and of Mede, Sacred through all the realm of Wit, Must never of repeal admit... The Cornhill Magazine - Página 534editado por - 1923Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| John Bell - 1793 - 612 páginas
...specctres blast his eyes ; 650 Devotion springs from abject fear, And stamps his prayers for once sincere. Pomposo, (insolent and loud, Vain idol of a scribbling crowd, Whose very name inspires an awe, 655 Whose ev'ry word is sense and law, For what his greatness hath decreed, Like laws of Persia and... | |
| James Boswell - 1799 - 648 páginas
...April 15, 1778, under May 4, 1779, April 15, 1781, and June 12, 1784. * The caricature begins : — ' Pomposo, insolent and loud, Vain idol of a scribbling...inspires an awe, Whose ev'ry word is Sense and Law.' Churchill's Poems, i. 216. ' The chief impostor, a man of the name of Parsons, had, it should seem,... | |
| James Boswell - 1799 - 640 páginas
...April 1 5, 1778, under May 4, 1779, April 15, 1781, and June 12, 1784. ' The caricature begins : — ' Pomposo, insolent and loud. Vain idol of a scribbling...inspires an awe, Whose ev'ry word is Sense and Law.' Churchill's Poems, \. 216. ' The chief impostor, a man of the name of Parsons, had, it should seem,... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 622 páginas
...spectres blast his eyes. Devotion springs from abject fear, And stamps his pray'rs for once sincere. Pomposo (insolent and loud, Vain idol of a scribbling...greatness hath decreed, Like laws of Persia and of JMede, Sacred through all the realm of II it, Must never of repeal admit; Who, cursing flattery, is... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 628 páginas
...spectres blast his eyes. Devotion springs from abject fear, And stamps his pray'rs for once sincere. Pomposo (insolent and loud, Vain idol of a scribbling...what his greatness hath decreed,* Like laws of Persia anil of Medc, Sacred through all the realm of H'it,' Must never of repeal admit; Who, cursing flattery,... | |
| Charles Churchill, William Tooke - 1844 - 392 páginas
...Johnson, whose Tory politics rendered him particularly obnoxious to Churchill notwithstanding their common Vain idol of a scribbling crowd, Whose very name inspires an awe, 6ss Whose every word is sense and law, For what his greatness hath decreed, Like laws of Persia and... | |
| William Watts - 1846 - 132 páginas
...descriptive lines of the groat moralist, by Churchill, may not be unacceptable to the reader: — " POMPOSO, insolent and loud, Vain idol of a scribbling...crowd : Whose very name inspires an awe ; » Whose every word is sense and law ; Who, cursing flattery, is the tool Of every fawning, flattering fool... | |
| Charles Churchill - 1866 - 336 páginas
...spectres blast his eyes ; oso Devotion springs from abject fear, And stamps his prayers for once sincere. Pomposo, — insolent and loud, Vain idol of a scribbling crowd, Whose very name inspires an awe, Whose every word is sense and law ; For what his greatness hath decreed, Like laws of Persia and of Mede,... | |
| Francis Jacox - 1871 - 378 páginas
...having it, and succeeded : on le craignait et on faisait place devant lui. As with a contemporary's ' ' Pomposo, insolent and loud, Vain idol of a scribbling crowd, Whose very name inspires an awe, Whose every word is sense and law, For what his greatness hath decreed, Like laws of Persia and of Mede,... | |
| James Boswell - 1874 - 602 páginas
...with him a certain rule. For what his greatness hath decreed, The fo"ys prov d when, he cills {™1' Like laws of Persia and of Mede, Sacred through all the realms of wit, Pomposo with strong sense supplied, Must never of repeal admit ! Supported and confirmed by pride,... | |
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