...Teat." Pope never wrote a lino so halting as the second of the following distich, quoted on p. 12u':— "And he who now to sense, now nonsense leaning, Means not, but blunders round a meaning." Nor did Dr. Johnson write : — " Great George's acts let tuneful Gibber sing, For Nature...

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...to severe." IV. 379. d'«ne voix legere Patter du grave au dome, du plaitant au severe. Boileau. " And he who now to sense, now nonsense leaning:, Means not but blunders round abuut a meaning." Epistle to Arbuthnot, 185. Johnson, author of the Victim and Cobler of Preston. It...

...editions— " Not that the things are either rich or rare, He, who still wanting, though he lives on theft, Steals much, spends little, yet has nothing...left: And he, who now to sense, now nonsense leaning, 18o Means not, but blunders round about a meaning: And he, whose fustian 's so sublimely bod, It is...

...Amb. Philips translated a book called the Persian Tales. He, who still wanting, though he lives on theft, Steals much, spends little, yet has nothing...: And he, who now to sense, now nonsense leaning, 185 Means not, but blunders round about a meaning : And he, whose fustian's so sublimely bad, It is...

...to severe." IV. 879. d'une voix leyere Passer du grave au doua:, du plaisant au severe. Boileau. " And he who now to sense, now nonsense leaning, Means not but blunders round about a meaning." Epietle to Arbuthnot, 185. Johnson, author of the Victim and Cobler of Preston. It is not poetry but...

...him as "fat Johnson," and in his " Fragment of a Satire " has tins spoken of him : — ' ' Jo — n, who now to sense, now nonsense, leaning. Means not, but blunders round about a meaning." 1 Lewis Theobald, the editor of Shakespeare, and the hero of the first Dunciad. Died 1744. in every...

...barrenness appear, And strain from hard-bound brains, eight llnes a year. Pope's Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnat. And he whose fustian's so sublimely bad, It is not poetry, but prose run mad. Pope's EpisOe ta Dr. АrЬatiаиЛ. That flattery ev'n to kings, he held a shame, And thought a lie...

...appear, And strains from hard-bound brains eight lines a-year He who still wanting, though he lives on theft, Steals much, spends little, yet has nothing...bad, It is not poetry, but prose run mad: All these rny modest satire bade translate, And owned that nine such poets made a Tate. How did they fume, and...