 | John Aikin - 1821 - 402 páginas
...purchase costs so dear a price As soothing Folly, or exalting Vice : Oh ! if the Muse must flatter lawless sway, And follow still where Fortune leads...way ; Or if no basis bear my rising name, But the fall'n ruins of another's fame ; Then teach me, Heaven ! to scorn the guilty bays, Drive from my breast... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 páginas
...the purchase costs so dear a price, As soothing folly, or exalting vice; Oh! if the Muse must flatter lawless sway, And follow still where Fortune leads...Drive from my breast that wretched lust of praise; Unblemish'd let me live, or die unknown : Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!' JANUARY AND... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 402 páginas
...But if the purchase cost so dear a price, 515 As soothing Folly, or exalting Vice : Oh ! if the Muse must natter lawless sway, And follow still where fortune...way ; Or if no basis bear my rising name, But the fall'n ruins of another's fame ; 520 Then teach me, Heav'n ! to scorn the guilty bays, Drive from my... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 402 páginas
...bear my rising name, pu.t the fall'n ruins of another's fame ; ". T " •, 520 Then teach me, Heav'n ! to scorn the guilty bays, Drive from my breast that wretched lust of praise ; .''••• .—i NOTES. Ver. 497. Whik thus I stood, &c.] The hint is taken from a passage in another... | |
 | William Scott - 1823 - 396 páginas
...the purchase cost so dear a price, As soothing folly, or exalting vice ; And if the muse must flatter lawless sway, And follow still where fortune leads...way ; Or, if no basis bear my rising name But the fall'n ruins of another's fame ; Then teach me, heav'n, to-scorn the guilty bays ; Drive from my breast... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 416 páginas
...purchase cost so dear a price, 515 As soothing folly, or exalting vice ; Oh ! if the Muse must flatter lawless sway, And follow still, where fortune leads...rising name, But the fallen ruins of another's fame ; 520 Then teach me, heav'n ! to scorn the guilty bays; Drive from my breast that wretched lust of... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 416 páginas
...purchase cost so dear a price, 515 As soothing folly, or exalting vice ; Oh ! if the Muse must flatter lawless sway, And follow still, where fortune leads...rising name, But the fallen ruins of another's fame ; 520 Then teach me, heav'n ! to scorn the guilty bays; Drive from my breast that wretched lust of... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 428 páginas
...no basis bear my rising name, But the fallen ruins of another's fame ; 520 Then teach me, heav'n ! to scorn the guilty bays ; Drive from my breast that wretched lust of praise; Unblemish'd let me live, or die unknown ; Oh ! grant an honest fame, or grant me none ! " CHAUCER'S... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 páginas
...purchase costs so dear a price, As soothing folly, or exalting vice ; O ! if the Muse must flatter lawless sway, And follow still where fortune leads...Drive from my breast that wretched lust of praise ; Unblemish'd let me live, or die unknown : O grant an honest fame, or grant me none !' 35 ODE. THE... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 páginas
...purchase costs so dear a price As soothing folly, or exalting vice ; Oh ! if the muse mast flatter lawless sway, And follow still where fortune leads the way ; Or if no basis hear my rising name, But the fall' n ruins of ¡mother'* fame ; Then, teach me, Heaven ! to scorn the... | |
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Muse must flatter lawless sway, And follow still where fortune leads the way ; Or if no basis bear my rising name, But the fallen ruins of another's fame ; Then teach me, Heaven ! to scorn the guilty bays. Drive from my breast that wretched lust of praise... 
