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" For gain, not glory, wing'd his roving flight, And grew immortal in his own despite. "
Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature - Page 126
by Robert Aris Willmott - 1851 - 301 pages
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The Authorship of Shakespeare

Nathaniel Holmes - 1867 - 636 pages
...whom you and every playhouse-bill Style the divine, matchless, what you will, — - . . V^ r, ^. ( For gain, not glory, wing'd his roving flight, And grew immortal in his own despight." . £ . .•€,,•••. • y-— § 3. MANUSCRIPTS. No original manuscript of any play,...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope, ed. with notes and intr. memoir by A.W ...

Alexander Pope - 1869 - 570 pages
...Shakespear8 (whom you and ev'ry Play-house bill Style the divine, the matchless, what you will) 70 For gain, not glory, wing'd his roving flight, And grew Immortal in his own despite. Ben, old and poor, as little seem'd to heed The Life to come, in ev'ry Poet's Creed. Who now...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope - 1869 - 512 pages
...Shakspeare, (whom you and every playhouse bill Style the divine, the matchless, what you will) For gam, not glory, wing'd his roving flight, And grew immortal in his own despite. Ben, old and poor, as little seem'd to heed The life to come, in every poet's creed. Who now...
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The Book of Authors: A Collection of Criticisms, Ana, Môts, Personal ...

William Clark Russell - 1871 - 550 pages
...you and every playhouse bill Style the divine, the matchless, what you will), William Shakspeare. 39 For gain, not glory, wing'd his roving flight, And grew immortal in his own despite. — Pope. If Shakspeare be considered as a Man, born in a rude age and educated in the lowest...
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The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 24; Volume 27

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1871 - 790 pages
...Pope putsit, Whom von and even- playhouse bill Style the divine, the matchless, what you will, Fur gain, not glory, wing'd his roving flight, And grew immortal in his own despite. To write for money was once held to be disgraceful ; and Byron, as we know, taunted Scott,...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope. With memoir, critical diss., and ...

Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 pages
...Shakspeare (whom you and every play-house bill Style the divine, the matchless, what you will), 70 For gain, not glory, wing'd his roving flight, And grew immortal in his own despite. 1 ' Horse-tail bare : ' referring to Scrtorius, who told one of his soldiers to pluck off...
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Satires and Epistles

Alexander Pope - 1872 - 168 pages
...bier. Shakespear, whom you and ev'ry play-house bill Style the divine, the matchless, what you will, 70 For gain, not glory, wing'd his roving flight, And grew immortal in his own despight. Ben, old and poor, as little seem'd to heed The life to come in ev'ry poet's creed. Who now...
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Pope. Satires and Epistles, ed. by M. Pattison

Alexander Pope - 1872 - 192 pages
...bier. Shakespear, whom you and ev'ry play-house bill Style the divine, the matchless, what you will, 70 For gain, not glory, wing'd his roving flight, And grew immortal in his own despight. Ben, old and poor, as little seem'd to heed The life to come in ev'ry poet's creed. Who now...
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Hours in a Library

Sir Leslie Stephen - 1874 - 412 pages
...his.' Shakspeare, as Pope puts it, Whom you and every playhouse bill Style the divine, the matchless, what you will, For gain, not glory, wing'd his roving flight, And grew immortal in his own despite. To write for money was once held to be disgraceful; and Byron, as we know, taunted Scott because...
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Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson: With Copious Indexes ...

Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 pages
...one day more. POPE. Shakspenre, whom you and ev'ry playhouse bill Style the divine, the matchless, what you will, For gain, not glory, wing'd his roving flight, And grew immortal in his own despite. POPE. The mighty Stagyrite first left the shore, Spread all his sails, and durst the deepsexplore;...
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