 | Richard Ryan - 1830 - 348 pages
...studied : as they felt, they writ ; Intrigue was plot, obscenity was wit. Vice always found a sympathetic friend ; They pleas'd their age, and did not aim to mend. Yet bards like these aspir'd to lasting praise, And proudly hop'd to pimp in future days. Their cause was gen'ral,... | |
 | Richard Ryan - 1825 - 526 pages
...studied : as they felt, they writ ; Intrigue was plot, obscenity was wit. Vice always found a sympathetic friend ; They pleas'd their age, and did not aim to mend. Yet bards like these aspir'd to lasting praise, And proudly hop'd to pimp in future days. Their cause was gen'ral,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 728 pages
...studied, as they felt they writ ; Intrigue was plot, obscenity was wit. Vice always found a sympathetic friend ; They pleas'd their age, and did not aim to mend. Yet bards like these aspir'd to lasting praise, And proudly hoped to pimp in future days. Their cause was gen'ral,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pages
...studied, as they felt, they writ ; Intrigue was plot, obscenity was wit ; Vice always found a sympathetick friend ; They pleas'd their age, and did not aim to mend. Yet bards, like these, aspir'd to lasting praise, And proudly hop'd to pimp in future days. Their cause was gen'ral,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 486 pages
...studied, as Ihey felt they writ ; Intrigue was plot, obsrt- iiity was wit. Vice always found a sympathetic friend, They pleas'd their age, and did not aim to mend. Yet bards like these aspir'd to lasting praise, And proudly hoped to pimp in future days. Their cause was gen'ral,... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 438 pages
...studied ; as they felt they writ ; Intrigue was plot, obscenity was wit. Vice always found a sympathetic friend ; They pleas'd their age, and did not aim to mend. Yet bards like these aspir'd to lasting praise, And proudly hop'd to pimp in future days. Their cause was gen'ral,... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 448 pages
...studied ; as they felt they writ ; Intrigue was plot, obscenity was wit. Vice always found a sympathetic friend ; They pleas'd their age, and did not aim to mend. Yet bards like these aspir'd to lasting praise, And proudly hop'd to pimp in future days. Their cause was gen'ral,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 484 pages
...as Ihey felt they writ ; Intrigue wa- plot, obs.-.-i.ity was wit. "Vice always fo:ind a sympaihetic friend, They pleas'd their age, and did not aim to mend. Yet bai ds like these aspir'd to lasting praise, And proudly hoped to p mp in future days. Their cause... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1849 - 582 pages
...fame. Themselves they studied; as they felt, they STUDIES OF BHAKSPERE. Vice always found a sympathetic friend ; They pleas'd their age, and did not aim to mend. Yet bards like these aspir'd to lasting praise, And proudly hop'd to pimp in future days. Their cause was gen'ral,... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 pages
...studied; as they felt they writ Intrigue was plot, obscenity was wit. Vice always found a sympathetic friend; They pleas'd their age, and did not aim to mend. Yet bards like these aspir'd to lasting praise, Aud proudly hop'd to pimp in future days. Their cause was gen'ral... | |
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Vice always found a sympathetic friend; They pleas'd their Age, and did not aim to mend. Yet Bards like these aspir'd to lasting Praise, And proudly hop'd to pimp in future days. 
