 Knew to love, but not to praise. Being born as free as these, I will sing as I shall please, Who as well new paths may run, As the best before have done.  The Quarterly Review - Page 44edited by - 1811Full view - About this book
 | 1811 - 702 pages
...Change a syllabic or measure; Pedants shall not tie my strains To our antique poets' veins; Being1 born as free as these I will sing as I shall please." Southey often possesses the infirmity of some other hards, and that is, to dwell upon some favourite... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1811 - 282 pages
...Ertrrtcif pot iffwm mXwfdmv, 'If* Qetmn HMXjA0V l(5af I^MVl 0TJ fT«MU?.0V yuv^v tegUfftTU. tin. lilt. FOR I WILL FOR NO MAN'S PLEASURE CHANGE A SYLLABLE...BORN AS FREE AS THESE, I WILL SING AS I SHALL PLEASE. GEORGE WITHER. BEAM A, ... .the Creator. VEESHNOO, the Preserver. SEEVA the Destroyer. These form the... | |
 | 1811 - 596 pages
...nevertheless venture to call the silly declaration, in the words of George Withers, prefixed to his poem. For I will for no man's pleasure Change a syllable...as free as these, I- will sing as I shall please. No doubt, Mr. Southey, or any man, may sing as he pleases, provided he does not break the king's peace.... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1812 - 288 pages
...Scene 84 10. Mount Mem 93 11. The Enchantress 110 12. The Sacrifice Completed 124 NOTES 183 Nor. Aicf. FOR I WILL FOR NO MAN'S PLEASURE CHANGE A SYLLABLE...VEINS ; BEING BORN AS FREE AS THESE, I WILL SING AS 1 SHALL PLEASE. GEORGE WITHER. VOL. i. BR AH A, .... the Creator. VEESHNOO, the Preserver; SEEVA, ....... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1812 - 278 pages
...TTOlXlAcy U/XV5V H{a3-o-». Nov. AlOTi FOR I WILL FOR NO MAN'S PLEASURE CHANGE A SYLLABLE OR MEASURE J PEDANTS SHALL NOT TIE MY STRAINS TO OUR ANTIQUE POETS'...VEINS ; BEING BORN AS FREE AS THESE, I WILL SING AS 1 SHALL PLEASE. GEORGE WITHER. BR AM A, .... the Creator. VI:GSHNOO, the Preserver. SEEVA, .... the... | |
 | 1814 - 774 pages
...one, alas ! will still persist in acting according to the spirit of George Wither' a lines : 1 Critics shall not tie my strains ' To our antique poets' veins,...as free as these, ' I will sing as I shall please.' And the other will still continue to prefer what is new, and to admire, with indiscrimiuating partiality,... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1814 - 586 pages
...my strains To our antique Poets' veins ; As if we in latter days Knew to love, but not to praise ; Being born as free as these, I will sing as I shall please j Who as well new paths may run, As the best before have done. I disdain to make my song, For their... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1818 - 290 pages
...SAVAGE LANDOR, THIS POEM IS INSCRIBED, BY ROBERT SOUTHEY. > V fjUvOv a,_a5 Nov FOR I WILL FOR NO MAN*S PLEASURE CHANGE A SYLLABLE OR MEASURE ; PEDANTS SHALL...BORN AS FREE AS THESE, I WILL SING AS I SHALL PLEASE. GEORGE WITHER. PREFACE. IN the religion of the Hindoos, which of all false religions is the most monstrous... | |
 | 1824 - 80 pages
...JACOB AWL ! A DOMESTIC SCENE. A Burlesque Imitation of Southey's Home Scene i» the Curse of Kefiama, For I will, for no man's pleasure, Change a syllable...born as free as these, I will sing as I shall please. George Wither, See the motto prefixed to the Curse of Kehama. " Behold his lowly home," By yonder high... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1835 - 400 pages
...author to step out of the common road of composition, and to put himself upon his country for theissue of his trespass, if there be one. " For I will for...antique poets' veins ; Being born as free as these, l sing as I shall please." This bold avowal is followed by a narrative poem, in twenty-four sections,... | |
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