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" ... he has outdone all men that way; for he has made a gridiron and a. frying-pan in verse, that, besides the likeness in shape, the very tone and sound of the words did perfectly represent the noise that is made by these utensils, such as the old poet... "
Restituta: Or, Titles, Extracts, and Characters of Old Books in English ... - Page 43
by Sir Egerton Brydges - 1815
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Poetry and Poets: A Collection of the Choicest Anecdotes Relative ..., Volume 1

Richard Ryan - Poetry - 1826 - 320 pages
...that is made by these utensils, such as the old poet called Sartago loquendi. When he was a captain, he made all the furniture of his horse, from the bit...as, the bridle of moderation, the saddle of content, the crupper of constancy ; so that the same thing was both 'epigram and emblem, even as a mule is both...
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The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, Volume 20

United States - 1847 - 608 pages
...of the words did perfectly represent the noise that is made by these utensils. When he was a captain he made all the furniture of his horse, from the bit to the crupper, the beaten poetry, every verse being fitted to the proportion of the thing, with a moral allusion of...
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The United States Democratic Review, Volume 20

United States - 1847 - 606 pages
...of the words did perfectly represent the noise that is made by these utensils. When he was a captain he made all the furniture of his horse, from the bit to the crupper, the beaten poetry, every verse being fitted to the proportion of the thing, with a moral allusion of...
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Salad for the Solitary

Frederick Saunders - American essays - 1853 - 364 pages
...utensils ! When he was a captain he made all the furniture of his horse, from the bit to the crupper, the beaten poetry, every verse being fitted to the proportion of the thing, with a moral allusion to the sense of the thing : as the bridle of moderation, the saddle of content, and the crupper of...
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Salad for the solitary, by an epicure [signing himself F.S.].

F. S., Frederick Saunders - 1853 - 306 pages
...sound of the words did perfectly represent the noise made by these utensils ! When he was a captain he made all the furniture of his horse, from the bit to the crupper, of beaten poetry, every verse being fitted to the proportion of the thing, with a moral allusion to...
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Salad for the Solitary

Frederick Saunders - American essays - 1853 - 314 pages
...sound of the words did perfectly represent the noise made by these utensils ! When he was a captain he made all the furniture of his horse, from the bit to the crupper, of beaten poetry, every verse being fitted to the proportion of the thing, with a moral allusion to...
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Gleanings from the Harvest Fields of Literature: A Melange of Excerpta ...

Charles Carroll Bombaugh - Literature - 1860 - 538 pages
...sound of the words did perfeetly represent the noise made by these utensils ! When he was a captain, he made all the furniture of his horse, from the bit to the crupper, the beaten poctry, every verse being fitted to the proportion of the thing, with a moral allusion to...
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Collectanea Anglo-poetica: Or, A Bibliographical and Descriptive ..., Volume 55

Thomas Corser - English poetry - 1861 - 300 pages
...utensils, such as the old poet called Sartago loqvendi. When he was a captain, he made all the furni' ture of his horse, from the bit to the crupper, in the...sense to the thing : as the bridle of moderation, the eaddle of content, and the crupper of constancy : so that the same thing was to the epigram and emblem,...
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Collectanea Anglo-poetica, Or, A Bibliographical and Descriptive ..., Part 2

Thomas Corser - English poetry - 1861 - 282 pages
...such as the old poet called Sariago loquendi. When he was a captain, he made all the furni • ture of his horse, from the bit to the crupper, in the...sense to the thing : as the bridle of moderation, the soddle of content, and the crupper of constancy : so that the same thing was to the epigram and emblem,...
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Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine ..., Volume 55

Cheshire (England) - 1861 - 282 pages
...that is made by these utensils, such as the old poet called Sdrtago loquendi. When he was a captain, he made all the furniture of his horse, from the bit...proportion of the thing, with a moral allusion of tho sense to tho thing : as the bridle of moderation, the suddle of content, and the crupper of constaney...
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