 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...  Anecdotes of William Hogarth: Written by Himself - Pagina 46door William Hogarth - 1833 - 416 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Alexander Pope - 1752 - 434 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Aulus Gellius - 1795 - 454 pagina’s
...tcrris fccreta tuifquc, Tcmporibus defunfta videt, faftidit et odit." Moft happily imitated by Pope. " Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old ; It is the ruft we valur, not the gold. Chaucer's worft ribaldry is learn'd by rote. And beaftly Skclton heads... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1796 - 574 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pagina’s
...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 of houses quote. One likes no... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 562 pagina’s
...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 of houses quote. One likes... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 388 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 of houses quote : One likes... | |
 | 1812 - 474 pagina’s
...hundred years, but is looked upon as mean " and ungenteel furniture. What Mr. Pope in his last \\ork '' says of poems, may with much more propriety be applied...grow old ; " It is the rust we value, not the gold." HOGARTH. from any he had before seen, and manners so inimical to his own, greatly disgusted him., Ignorance... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 452 pagina’s
...partial in the rest : Foes to all living worth except your own, And Advocates for folly dead and gone. 34 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 of Houses quote : Ver. 38.... | |
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