 | 1812 - 724 str.
...Barrosa" had some claims to notice, since it did appear to be a work of merit ! — What says Pope ? Such shameless bards we have ; and yet 'tis true There are as mad, abandoned critics too. The bookful blockhead i^norantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his bead, With bis own tongue... | |
 | 1812 - 422 str.
...endeavours at the falsetto ! " So swells each windpipe, sss intones to ass Discordant twang." POPE. •' I had rather be a kitten, and cry mew, Than one of these same stupid silly songsters." i SHAKESPEARE. These quotations apply to a more miserable set, not imitators,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 str.
...brain, Strain out the last dull droppings of their sense, And rhyme with all the rage of impotence. Such shameless bards we have ; and yet 'tis true, There are as mad, abandon'd critics too. 61 1 The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 230 str.
...brain, Strain out the last dull droppings of their sense, And rhyme, with all the rage of impotence ! Such shameless bards we have ; and yet 'tis true There are as mad abandon'd critics too. 61 1 The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in... | |
 | Horace - 1812 - 198 str.
...brain, Strain out the last dull droppings of their sense, And rhyme with all the rage of impotence! Such shameless bards we have ; and yet 'tis true There are as mad, abandon'd critics too. 0 1 I The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1813 - 942 str.
...entament ; Л v ii i ut.- that wa» never seen in you. Hot. Marry, and I'm glad of it with all my heart ; I had rather be a kitten, and cry— mew, Than one of these same metre ballad-monger» : I had rather hear a brazen canstick tum'd, Or a dry wheel grate on an axle-tree ;... | |
 | 1809 - 672 str.
...London. I had rather be a kitten, and cry, mew! Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers. Shakespeare. Such shameless Bards We have ; and yet 'tis true, There are as mast, abandon'd Critics too. — Pope. The p.irt we have chosen places in a just point of view the... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 str.
...Shakes the old beldame J'.arth, and topples down Steeples and moss-grown towers. On miserable Rhymeri. \ had rather be a kitten and cry — mew. Than one of these same metre-ballad-mongers j I had rather hear a brazen canstick tura'd, Or a dry wheel grate on the axle-tree;... | |
 | 1824 - 798 str.
...century, they had so far fallen as to excite the indignation of the " Sweet Swan of Avon," who exclaims, " I had rather be a kitten, and cry, Mew, Than one of these same metre balladmongers : I had rather hear a brazen canstick turn'd, Or a dry wheel grate on an axle-tree." And, as before... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 80 str.
...L'IMPERATRIGE. DUNTED BY DEMAKETj RUE DES BOGAF.DS. I8l9. ^ J ENGLISH BARDS. AND SCOTCH REVIEWERS; A. SATIRE. I had rather be a kitten , and cry , mew ! Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers. Shakespeare* Such shameless Bards we have; and yet 'tis true, There are as mad, abandon1 d Critics... | |
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I had rather be a kitten, and cry mew Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers... 
