 Your People, Sir, are partial in the rest: Foes to all living worth except your own, And Advocates for folly dead and gone. Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old; It is the rust we value, not the gold. Chaucer's worst ribaldry is learn'd by...  The Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius - Pàgina 42per Aulus Gellius - 1795 - 438 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Alexander Pope - 1752 - 434 pàgines
...partial in the reft: Foes to all living worth except your own, And Advocates for folly dead and gone. 3 4 Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old ; It is the ruft we value, not the gold. 1 Chaucer's worft ribaldry is learn'd by rote, And beaftly Skelton Heads of houfes... | |
 | Aulus Gellius - 1795 - 454 pàgines
...« Cztera nequaquam fimi'i ratione modoque jEftimat, et nifi quae terris fccreta tuifque, Temporibus defunfta videt, faftidit et odit." Moft happily imitated by Pope. *' Authors, like coint, grow dear as they grow old* It is the ruft we value, not the gold. Chaucer's word ribaldry is... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1796 - 574 pàgines
...partial in the reft: lrocs to all living worth except your own, And advocates for folly dead and gone. Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old ; It is the ruft we value, not the gold. Chaucer's worft ribaldry is learn'd by rote. And beaftly Skelton heads of houfes... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pàgines
...partial in the rest; i''n<:s to all living worth except your own, And advocates for folly dead and gone. Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old; It is the rust we value, not the gold. Chaucer's worst rihaldry is learn'd hy rote, And heastly Skelton heads... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 562 pàgines
...partial in the rest ; Foes to all living worth except your own, And advocates for folly dead and gone. Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old ; It is the rust we value, not the gold. 36 Chaucer's worst ribaldry is Icani'd by rote, And beastly Skelton heads... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 388 pàgines
...partial in the rest ; Foes to all living worth, except your own, And advocates for folly dead and gone. Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old ; It is the rnst we value, not the gold. Chancer's worst rihaldry is learn'd by rote, And beastly Skelton heads... | |
 | 1809 - 402 pàgines
...partial in the rest : Foes to all living worth except your own, And advocates for folly dead and gone. Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old, It is the rti.it we value, not the gold. Chaucer's worst ribaldry is learn VI by role. And beastly .Skelton heads... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 pàgines
...partial in the rest: Foes to all living worth except your own, And advocates for folly dead and gone. Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old; It is the rust we value, not the gold. ' Chaucer's worst ribaldry islearn'd by rote, And beastly Skelton heads... | |
 | 1812 - 474 pàgines
...Pope in his last \\ork '' says of poems, may with much more propriety be applied " to pictures : ' ".Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old ; " It is the rust we value, not the gold." HOGARTH. from any he had before seen, and manners so inimical to his... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 290 pàgines
...partial in the rest; Foes to, all living worth, except your own, And advocates for folly dead and gone. Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old; It is the rust we value, not the gold. Chaucer's worst ribaldry is learn'd by rote, And beastly Skelton heads... | |
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