 | Vicesimus Knox - 1790 - 912 sider
...commerce makes poetry flourilh; but then poets, like merchants, Ihould repay with fomething of their o.vn what they take from others; not, like pirates, make prize of all they meet. 1 delire you to tell me fincerely, if I have not ftretched this licence too far in thefe palbrah; I... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 490 sider
...mutual commerce makes poetry flourifh ; but then poets, like merchants, mould repay with fomething of their own what they take from others ; not, like pirates, make prize of all they meet. I defire you to tell me fmcerely, if I have not ftretched this ' He Ihould rather have faid, the prr/tHion... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 502 sider
...mutual commerce makes poetry flourifh ; but then poets, like merchants, mould repay with fomething of their own what they take from others ; not, like pirates, make prize of all they meet. I defire you to tell me fincerely, if I have not ftretched this d He fhould rather have faid, the perfection... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 486 sider
...mutual commerce makes poetry flourifh ; but then poets, like merchants, mould repay with fomething of their own what they take from others ; not, like pirates, make prize of all they meet. I defire you to tell me fincerely, if I have not ftretched this a He fhould rather have faid, the perfection... | |
 | Elegant epistles - 1812 - 318 sider
...fruit; but by being grafted upon others may yield variety. A mutual commerce makes poetry flourish ; but then poets, like merchants, should repay with...pirates, make prize of all they meet. I desire you tell me sincerely, if I have not stretched this licence too far in these Pastorals : I hope to become... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 396 sider
...fruit, but by being grafted upon others may yield variety. A mutual commerce makes poetry flourish ; but then poets, like merchants, should repay with...this licence too far in these pastorals ? I hope to be• He should rather have sfiid, the perfection qf conception. W. come a critic by your precepts,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 402 sider
...fruit, but by being grafted upon others may yield variety. A mutual commerce makes poetry flourish ; but then poets, like merchants, should repay with...this licence too far in these pastorals ? I hope to be6 He should rather have said, the perfection of conception. W. come a critic by your precepts, and... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 634 sider
...fruit, but by being grafted upon others, may yield variety. A mutual commerce makes poetry flourish ; but then poets, like merchants, should repay with something of their own * He should rather have said, the perfection of conception. Warburton. what they take from others;... | |
 | William Maginn - 1857 - 524 sider
...grafted.] " A mutual commerce," adds the advocate of the petty-larceny gentlemen, " makes poetry flourish ; but then poets, like merchants, should repay with...;* not like pirates, make prize of all they meet." [And to which class does Moore belong ? With what treasure of his own does he repay all that he so... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1871 - 596 sider
...fruit, but by being grafted upon others may yield variety. A mutual commerce makes poetry flourish ; but then poets, like merchants, should repay with...meet. I desire you to tell me sincerely, if I have not stretehed this licence too far in these Pastorals ? I hope to become a critic by your precepts, and... | |
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A mutual commerce makes Poetry flourish : but then poets, like merchants, should repay with something of their own what they take from others : not, like pirates, make prize of all they meet. 
