| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1825 - 40 pages
...Marmion, 160 Now forging scrolls, now foremost in the fight, Not quite a Felon, yet but half a Knight, The gibbet or the field prepared to grace; A mighty mixture of the great and base. And think' st thou, SCOTT! by vain conceit perchance, On public taste to foist thy stale romance, Though... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 546 pages
...Marmion, • Now forging scrolls, now foremost in the fight, SNot quite a felon, yet but half a knight, The gibbet or the field prepared to grace; A mighty mixture of the great and base. own elegant phrase, «'t was his neck-verse at hairibee,» ie the gallows. ' The biography of Gilpin... | |
| Willard Phillips - 1826 - 194 pages
...; The gibbet or the field prepar'd to grace, A mighty mixture of the great and base. And think 'st thou, Scott ! by vain conceit perchance, On public...To yield thy muse just half-a-crown per line ? No ! when the sons of song descend to trade, Their bays are sear, their former laurels fade. Let such... | |
| George Gordon Noël Byron - 1826 - 804 pages
...Marmion, Now forging scrolls , now foremost in the fight, Not quite a felon, yet but half a knight, The gibbet or the field prepared to grace — A mighty mixture of the great and base. And tlii iik st thou, SCOTT! by vain conceit perchance, On public taste to foist thy stale romance, Though... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1826 - 202 pages
...mighty mixture of the great and hase. And think'st thou, Scott 1 hy rain conceit perchance, On puhlic taste to foist thy stale romance, Though Murray with his Miller may comhine To yleld thy muse just half-a-crown per line ? No ! when Che sons of song descend to trade,... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1827 - 888 pages
...If Mr ill hit payna*trn, but anduulrirl j great, by a le^riiiiu Hie gihhn or the iieîd prcp;ire<! to grace — A mighty mixture of the great and base. And think'st lliou, SCOTT ! by rain conceit prrrhnii< On public tasle. In foist thy stale romance, nigh .Мгнклт... | |
| George Clinton - 1828 - 888 pages
...Muniiion, Now forging scrolls, now foremost in the fight. Not quite a felon, yet but half a knight, The gibbet or the field prepared to grace , A mighty mixture of the great and base. And thinkest thou, Scott! by vain conceit perchance, On public taste to foist thy stale romance, Though... | |
| Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 822 pages
...Marmion, Now forging scrolls, now foremost in the fight, Not quite л felon, yet but half a knight, The gibbet or the field prepared to grace, A mighty mixture of the great and base. Byron» FELONY, says Blackstone, in the general acceptation of the law, comprises every species of... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 462 pages
...forging scrolls, now foremost in the fight. Not quite a felon, yet but half a knight, The gibbet nr the field prepared to grace, A mighty mixture of the great and base. Byron. FELONY, says Blackstone, in the general acceptation of the law, comprises every species of crime... | |
| 1830 - 436 pages
...been shown.' The licentious comhination of rbymes, in a manner not perhaps very congenial to our t " And think'st thou, Scott ! by vain conceit perchance,...Though Murray with his Miller may combine, To yield tby muse just half-a-crown per lineî No ! when the eons of song descend to trade, The» bays an ¿ear,... | |
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