 | Günther Blaicher - 2000 - 152 σελίδες
...schreibt Poe in einem Gelegenheitsgedicht "On Cibber": 45 Vgl. Malcolmson 89. 46 Malcolmson 89, 163. In merry old England it once was a rule, The King had his Poet, and also his Fool: But now we're so frugal, I'd have you to know it, That Cibbcr can serve both for Fool... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 2007 - 1143 σελίδες
...OF POETS. Nor does this epigram, when we consider the bargains he has made with the booksellers: In merry Old England it once was a rule, The king had his poet and also his fool: But now we're so frugal, I'd have you to know it, That Gibber can serve both for fool... | |
 | 1875 - 574 σελίδες
...But it was rather at the laureate than at the monarch that the satirists flung their shafts :— "In merry old England it once was a rule, The King had his Poet and also his Fool. But now we're so frugal, I'd have you to know it, That Gibber can serve both for Fool... | |
 | 1885 - 638 σελίδες
...selected Colley Gibber, whom Pope made famous — I had almost said infamous — in these lines : "In merry Old England it once was a rule, The king had his poet, and also his fool, But now we're so frugal, I'd have you to know it, That Gibber can serve both for fool... | |
 | 1875 - 600 σελίδες
...But it was rather at the laureate than at the monarch that the satirists flung their shafts : — "In merry old England it once was a rule, The King had his Poet and also his Fool. But now we're EO frugal, I'd have you to know it, That Cibber can serve both for Fool... | |
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In merry old England it once was a rule, The King had his Poet, and also his Fool : But now we're so frugal, I'd have you to know it, That Cibber can serve both for Fool and for Poet. 
