 | John Dryden - 1706 - 490 páginas
...vEmilian Square, May grave the Nails, or imitate the Hair, Bur cannot finifli what he hath begun 5 What is there more ridiculous than he? For one or...are fcandaloufly ill, Make it but more remarkably defornVd. Let Poets match their Subjeft to their Strength, And often try what weight they can fupport,... | |
 | Wentworth Dillon Earl of Roscommon - 1717 - 580 páginas
...in temfus omittat. Hoc amet, hoc fyernat fromiffi carminis auffor. In But cannot finifh what he hath begun ; What is there more ridiculous than he? For...are fcandaloufly ill, Make it but more remarkably deform'd. [Strength, Let Poets match their Subjeft to their And often try what Weight they can fupport,... | |
 | Horace - 1717 - 392 páginas
...Workman in th' JEmiiiim Square, May grave the Nails, or imitate the Hair; But cannot finifh what he hath begun. What is there more ridiculous than he ? , For...in a Face, Where all the reft are fcandaloufly ill, I 4 Make Mske it but more remarkably dcform'd. Let Poets match their Subjects to their Strength, And... | |
 | Wentworth Dillon Earl of Roscommon - 1749 - 296 páginas
...workman in th'Aemilian fquare, May grave the nails, or imitate the hair, . But cannot finifh what he hath begun ; What is there more ridiculous than he ? For one or two good features in a face, Where wretched pieces, there being no connection of (he parts, nor that agreement, which, like the foul,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 486 páginas
...fquare, •May grave the nails, or imitate the hair, But cannot finifli what he hath begun ; What can be more ridiculous than he-? For one or two good features...are fcandaloufly ill, Make it but more remarkably defonn'd. Let Let poets match their fubjeft to their fh And often try what weight they can fuppc And... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 258 páginas
...fquarc, May grave the nails, or imitate the hair. But cannot finim what he hath begun ; What can be more ridiculous than he ? For one or two good features in a face, Where all the reft are feandaloufly ill, Make it but more remarkably deform'd. t*t Let poets match their fubjcft to their... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 248 páginas
...fquare, May grave the nails, or imitate the hair, But cannot finifh what he hath begun ; What can be more ridiculous than he ? For one or two good features...are fcandaloufly ill, Make it but more remarkably deform'd. K 2 tet Let poets match their fubjeft to their ftrength, And often try what weight they can... | |
 | 1793 - 806 páginas
...imitate the hair, .But cannot finifh what he hath begun : \Vhat can be more ridiculous than he ? îcr one or two good features in a face, Where all the reft aie fcandiloufly ill, Abke it but more remarkably dcform'd. 'JLet poets match their fubjefl to their... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 842 páginas
...fquare, May grave the nails, or imitate the hair, But cannot finifh what he hath begun : What can be more ridiculous than he ? For one or two good features...are fcandaloufly ill, Make it but more remarkably dcform'd, Let poets match their fubject to their ftrangth, And often try whjit weight they can fupport,... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 806 páginas
...or imitate the hair, But cannot finifti what he hath begun : What can be more ridiculous than he t For one or two good features in a face, Where all the reft are fcandaloiifly ill, Make it but more remarkably dcform'd. Let poets match their fubject to their ftrength,... | |
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... Others, in love with wild variety, Draw boars in waves, and dolphins in a wood : Thus fear of erring, join'd with want of skill, Is a most certain way of erring still. The meanest workman in th... 
