 | Jonathan Swift - 1803 - 386 pages
...annual birth-day strains; Whence Gay was banish'd in disgrace; Where Pope will never show his face; Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension. But these are not a thousandth part Of jobbers in the poet's art, Attending each his proper station,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 558 pages
...annual birth-day strains ; Whence Gay was banish'd in disgrace ; Where Pope will never show his face; Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension. But these are not a thousandth part Of jobbers in the poet's art, Attending each his proper station,... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 512 pages
...annual birthday strains; Whence Gay was banish' d in disgrace, Where Pope will never show his face, Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension. But these are not a thousandth part Of jobbers in the poet's art, Attending each his proper station,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 562 pages
...annual birth-day strains j Whence Gay was banish'd in disgrace ; Where Pope will never show his face ; Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension. But these arc not a thousandth part Of jobbers in the poet's art, Attending each his proper station.... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1817 - 556 pages
...have been finished as early as 1710, before he was thirty, for part of it is printed in the "Tatler." It was inscribed to the queen, in a dedication, the...this time a pensioned writer at court : " Where Young roust torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension." and we have seen already, that... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 420 pages
...annual birth-day strains ; Whence Gay was banish'd in disgrace ; Where Pope will never show his face ; Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension. But these are not a thousandth part Of jobbers in the poet's art, Attending each his proper station,... | |
 | 1820 - 612 pages
...annual birth-day strains; Whence fiay wasbanish'd in disgrace; Wh*re I'ope will never show his face; Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension. But these are not a thousandth part Of jobbers in the poet's art. Attending each his proper station,... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1824 - 406 pages
...annual birthday strains ; Whence Gay was banish'd in disgrace, Where Pope will never show his face, Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension. But these are not a thousandth part Of jobbers in the poet's art, Attending each his proper station,... | |
 | Henrietta Hobart Howard Countess of Suffolk - Great Britain - 1824 - 478 pages
...to great men ; and Swift, with his usual acuteness, has touched this foible of his character : " And Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension." Young was born in 1681. It was not till 1728, (when he was, say his biographers, near fifty) that he... | |
 | Henrietta Hobart Howard Countess of Suffolk - Great Britain - 1824 - 486 pages
...to great men; and Swift, with his usual acuteness, has touched this foible of his character : " And Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension." Young was born in 1681. It was not till 1728, (when he was, say his biographers, near fifty) that he... | |
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Phoebus' car From Ludgate shines to Temple-bar : Harmonious Gibber entertains The court with annual birth-day strains ; Whence Gay was banish'd in disgrace ; Where Pope will never show his face; Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves,... 
