 | 1720 - 302 pages
...on the leaves of ancient authors prey, Nor time nor moths e'er fpoil'd fo much as they. Some dryly plain, without invention's aid, Write dull receipts how poems may be made: Thefe loft the fenfe, their learning to difplay, And thofe explain'd the meaning quite away. You then... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1752 - 398 pages
...fools. Some on the leaves of antient authors prey, Nor time nor moths e'er fpoil'd fo much as they. Some drily plain, without invention's aid, Write dull receipts how poems may be made, 115 COMMENTARY. For, as Ignorance, when joined with Humility produces ftupid admiration, on which account... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1754 - 264 pages
...Some on the leaves of ancient authors prey, Nor time nor moths e'er fpoil'd fo much as they : Some drily plain, without invention's aid, Write dull receipts how poems may be made. 115 Thefe leave the fenfe, their learning to difplay, And thofe explain the meaning quite away. You... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1757 - 280 pages
...fools. Some on the leaves of antient authors prey, Nor time nor moths e'er fpoil'd fo much as they. Some drily plain, without invention's aid, Write dull receipts how poems may be made, 115 COMMENTARY. For, as Ignorance, when joined with Humility producer ftupid admiration, on which account... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1760 - 316 pages
...fools. Some on the leaves of antient authors prey, Nor time nor moths e'er fpoil'd fo much as they. Some drily plain, without invention's aid, Write dull receipts how poems may be made. 115 COMMENTARY. For, as Ignorance, when joined with Humility,.prod\iC£s ftupid admiration, on which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 1164 pages
...were given. After ver. 104. this line is omitted, Stt up themfelves, and drove a feparatq trade. Some drily plain, without invention's aid, Write dull receipts how poems may be made. 11 j Thefe leave the fenfe, their learning to difplay, And thofe explain the meaning quite away. You... | |
 | Johann Joachim Eschenaburg - 1789 - 484 pages
...on the leaves of ancient authors prey, Nor time nor moths e'er fpoil'd fo much is they ; Some dryly plain, without invention's aid, Write dull receipts how poems may be made. Thefe leave the fenie , their learning to difplay, And thofe explain the meaning quite away. You then... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 966 pages
...Some on the leaves of ancient authors prey ; Nor time nor moths e'er fpoil'd fomuch as they : Some 0- Thcfe leave the lenfe, their learning to difplay; And thofc explain the meaning quite away. You then... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 510 pages
...Some on the leaves of ancient authors prey ; Nor time nor months e'er fpoil'd fo much as they : Som« drily plain, without invention's aid, Write dull receipts how poems may be made. Thcfc leave the fcnfc, their learning to difplay ; And thofe explain the meaning quite away. You then... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1797 - 444 pages
...fools. Some on the leaves of ancient authors prey, Nor time nor moths e'er fpoil fo much as they. Some drily plain, without invention's aid, Write dull receipts how poems may be made, 115 NOTES. to fland prominent like a dug of the firft rate, nor wanted excrEfcencies in form of teats,... | |
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These leave the sense, their learning to display, And those explain the meaning quite away. You then whose judgment the right course would... 
