 Railing in other men may be a crime, But ought to pass for mere instinct in him; Instinct he follows and no farther knows, For to write verse with him is to transprose. 'Twere pity treason at his door to lay, Who makes heaven's gate a lock to its own...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Σελίδα 3671845Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Edwin Winfield Bowen - 1909 - 164 σελίδες
...vulgar pronunciation of key is the only open sesame to this perfect rhyme in Dryden's time : " 'Twere pity treason at his door to lay, Who makes heaven's gate a lock to its own key." Here also occurs the obsolete pronunciation of says rhyming with days, and said is wedded to maid and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1913 - 220 σελίδες
...— ' Instinct he follows, and no further knows, For to write verse with him is to transprose. 'Twere pity treason at his door to lay Who makes heaven's gate a lock to its own key." Absalom and Achitophel, pt. ii, 1. 444. 1. »o. Medal. Cf. p. 34, 1. 1 7, note ; and p. 84, 1. 6. 1.... | |
 | Delbert Moyer Staley - 1914 - 378 σελίδες
...be hanged who never could rebel? ***** Let him rail on; let his invective Muse Have four-and-twenty letters to abuse, Which if he jumbles to one line of sense, Indict him of a capital offense." "Drink, swear, and roar, forbear no lewd delight Fit for thy bulk; do anything but write.... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1916 - 524 σελίδες
...; Instinct he follows and no farther knows, For to write verse with him is to transprose 1 ; Twere pity treason at his door to lay Who makes heaven's...offence. In fire-works* give him leave to vent his spitet Those are the only serpents he can write ; The height of his ambition is, we know, But to be... | |
 | John Dryden - 1923 - 196 σελίδες
...him ; Instinct he follows and no farther knows, For to write verse with him is to transprose ; Twere pity treason at his door to lay Who makes heaven's...one line of sense, Indict him of a capital offence. 450 In fire-works give him leave to vent his spite, Those are the only serpeuts he can write ; The... | |
 | Henrietta Gerwig - 1925 - 748 σελίδες
...still a blundering kind of melody . . . Let him rail on; let his invective Muse Have four-and-twenty letters to abuse, Which if he jumbles to one line of sense, Indict him of a capital ofTenee. " Absalom and Acfiitophel, Part ii. Dog. Dogs as the best loved of all animals figure prominently... | |
 | Mark Van Doren - 1928 - 1390 σελίδες
...ENGLISH 1083 "Twere pity treason at his door to lay Who mai(es heaven's gate a loct^ to its own f(ey; Let him rail on, let his invective Muse Have four...offence. In fire-works give him leave to vent his spite, Those are the only serpents he can write; The height of his ambition is, we know, But to be... | |
 | Richard N. Rosenfeld - 1998 - 1012 σελίδες
...that it defeats its own purpose, and the sober and steadfast unite now in exclaiming, with DRYDEN, Let him rail on — let his invective Muse, Have four and twenty letters to abuse — Which, if he jumble to one line of sense, Indict him of a capital offence. FEDERALISM. WHEN THE RULERS ARE WISE,... | |
 | Paul Hammond - 2002 - 484 σελίδες
...him. Instinct he follows, and no farther knows, For to write verse with him is to transprose. 'Twere pity treason at his door to lay, Who 'makes heaven's...one line of sense Indict him of a capital offence. 450 In fireworks give him leave to vent his spite, Those are the only serpents he can write; The height... | |
 | Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - 2004 - 596 σελίδες
...Doeg, tho' without knowing how or why, Made still a blundering kind of melody. Let him rail on ... But if he jumbles to one line of sense, Indict him of a capital offense. Tate, Absalom and Achitophel, ii. (1682). Dog (Agrippd's). Cornelius Agrippa DOG 324 DOG had... | |
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