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The works of Isaac Disraeli (ed. by B. Disraeli). - Page 434
by Isaac Disraeli - 1859
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Bell's Edition, Volumes 75-76

John Bell - 1796 - 524 pages
...impenitently bold, In sounds and jingling syllables grown oid, 605 Still run on poets in a raging vein, Ev'n to the dregs and squeezings of the brain, Strain out the, last dull dropping of their sense, And rhyme with all the rage of impotence ! Such shameless bards we have ;...
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The Beauties of Pope: Consisting of Selections from His Poetical and Prose Works

Alexander Pope - 1783 - 322 pages
...their pace. What crouds of thefe, impenitently bold, In founds and jingling fyllables grown old, Still run on poets, in a raging vein, E'en to the dregs and fqueezings of the brain ; Strain out the laft dull dropping of their fenfe, And rhyme with all the...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections ..., Volume 2

Alexander Pope - 1804 - 236 pages
...impenitently bold, In sounds and jingling syllables grown old, 605 Still run on poets in a raging vein, Ev'n to the dregs and squeezings of the brain, Strain out...their sense, And rhyme with all the rage of impotence ! Such shameless bards we have ; and yet 'tis true There are as mad abandon'd critics too. 611 The...
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Curiosities of Literature, Volume 2

Isaac Disraeli - 1807 - 606 pages
...impcuitently bold, In sounds and jingling syllables grown old, They run on poets, in a raging rein, E'en to the dregs and squeezings of the brain : Strain...their sense, And rhyme with all the rage of impotence. POPE. It is probable he had Wycherley in his eye when he wrote this. The veteran bard wrote latterly...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...jingling syllables grown old, Still run on poets, in a raging vein, Ev'n to the dregs and squeeatngs of the brain, Strain out the last dull droppings of...sense • And rhyme with all the rage of impotence ! Such shameless bards we have ; and yet 'tis true There are as mad abandon'd critics too. The bookful...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions ...

Alexander Pope - 1807 - 316 pages
...syllahles grown old, Still run on poets in a raging vein, Ev'n to (the dregs and squeezing* of the hrain, Strain out the last dull droppings of their sense, And rhyme with all the rage of impotence ! 50 Such shameless hards we have; and yet 'tis true There are as mad ahandon'd critics too. The hookful...
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Poetical Works

Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...impenitently bold, In sounds and jingling syllables grown old, Still run on poets, in a raging vein, Ev'n to the dregs and squeezings of the brain, Strain out...their sense, And rhyme with all the rage of impotence ! Such shameless bards we have ; and yet 'tis true There are as mad abandon'd critics too. The boekfnl...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 pages
...impenitently bold, In sounds and jingling syllables grown old. Still run on poets, in a raging vein, Ev'u to the dregs and squeezings of the brain, Strain out...their sense, And rhyme with all the rage of impotence ! Snch shameless bards we have : and yet 'tis ti u*s There are as mad, abandon'd critics too. The bookful...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Four Volumes. Collated with the ...

Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...jingling syllables grown old, Still ruu on poets, in a raging vein, Ev'n to the dregs and squeezing! of the brain, Strain out the last dull droppings of...their sense, And rhyme with all the rage of impotence ! , Such shameless hards we have ; and yet 'tis true There are as mad ahandon'd critics too. The bdokful...
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Elegant Extracts, Volumes 1-2

Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...jingling syllables grown old, Still run on poets in a raging vein, Fv'n to the dregs and siiueerings eath, Throw oil their burden, and suborn their death....Then, since those forms begin, and have their On some Suehsh.iraefnl bards we have; ami yet 'tis true, There are as mad abandon 'd critics too. The book...
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