 | William Ayre, Edmund Curll - Poets, English - 1745 - 426 pages
...Minifter fo fore. Whoe'er offends at fome unlucky Time, Slides into Verfe and hitches into Rhyme ; Sacred to Ridicule his whole Life long, And the fad Burthen of fome merry Song. To this his Friend makes Anfwer, that it is dangerous, and that there are People who... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1752 - 434 pages
...minifter fo fore. Whoe'er offends, at fome unlucky time x Slides into verfe, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to Ridicule his whole life long, And the fad burthen of fome merry fong. 80 y Slander or Poifon dread from Delia's rage, Hard words or hanging, if your Judge... | |
 | Literature - 1764 - 198 pages
...minifter fo fore. Whoe'er offends, at fome unlucky time Slides into verfe, and hitches in a rhyme ; Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the fad burthen of fome merry fong *. Thefe lines are very beautiful, and fuperior to thofe of Horace f. No poet was •Verfc75.... | |
 | Horace - 1767 - 264 pages
...no Minifter fo fore. Whoe'er offends, at fome unlucky Time Slides intoVerfe, and hitches in a Rhyme, Sacred to Ridicule his whole Life long, And the fad Burthen of fome merry Song. Slander or Poifon dread from Delia's Rage, Hard Words or hanging, if your Judge be... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 414 pages
...quifquam noceat "•'•' cupido mihi pacis ! at :l ie, Qui me commont, (melius non tangere, clun:o) Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the fad burthen of fome merry fong. So /Slander or Poifon dread from Delia's rage, Hard words or hanging, if your Judge... | |
 | Richard Gardiner - 1782 - 280 pages
...minifter fo fore ; Whoe'er offends, at fome unlucky time, Slides into verfe, and hitches in a rhime, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the fad burthen of fome merry fong. POPE. HE always thought himfelf of more confequcr.ce than he really was, and would... | |
 | Robert Nares - English language - 1784 - 554 pages
...certainly it is not. Even Pope, whom he quotes, meant, I think, to accent the word on the antepenultima : Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the fad burthen of fome merry fong. I do not at prefent recolledt any ancient authority for Accenting it on the laft.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1787 - 396 pages
...Minilter fo fore.. Whoe'er oftends, at feme unlucky time x Slides into verfe, and hitches in a rhyme. Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the fad burthen of fome merry fong. 8& * Tutus ab infeftis latronibus ? " O pater et rex Jupiter, ut pereat pofitum rubigine... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1790 - 752 pages
...by Pope : " Whoe'er offends, at Come unlucky time '< Slides into verfe, and hitches in a rhirne; " Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, *' And the fad burthen of fome merry long." MAT. ON r. 1 In a pure compound — ] Thus the quarto. The edition of 1616 readl... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 398 pages
...! at ille, Qui me commorit, (melius non tangere, clamo) 1 Flebit, et infignis tota cantabitur urbe. Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the fad burthen of fome merry fong. 89 i Slander or Poifon dread from Delia's rage; Hard words or hanging, if your Judge... | |
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Whoe'er offends, at fome unlucky time Slides into verfe, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to Ridicule his whole life long, And the fad burthen of fome merry fong. 
