 And think'st thou, Scott! by vain conceit perchance, On public taste to foist thy stale romance, Though Murray with his Miller may combine To yield thy muse just half-a-crown per line? No! when the sons of song descend to trade, Their bays are sear, their...  Anecdotes of lord Byron [by A. Kilgour]. - Page 59by Alexander Kilgour (M.D.) - 1825Full view - About this book
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1809 - 74 pages
...The gibbet or the field prepar'd to grace ; A mighty mixture of the great and base. And think'stthou, SCOTT! by vain conceit perchance, On public taste...trade, Their bays are sear, their former laurels fade. 60 Let such forego the poet's sacred name, Who rack their brains for lucre, not for fame : Low may... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1809 - 108 pages
...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,...half-a-crown per line ? No! when the sons of song descend <o trade, Their bays are sear, their former laurels fade. 170 Let such forego the poet's sacred name,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Bookbinding - 1810 - 102 pages
...base, And think'st thou, SCOTT ! by vain conceit perchance, . .,.;.,-. .; , i-.. ( ,, ,-' ..I ,i, i On public taste to foist thy stale romance, Though...trade, Their bays are sear, their former laurels fade. 170 Let such forego the poet's sacred name, Who rack their brains for lucre, not for fame : Low may... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1810 - 110 pages
...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, ThoughMuRRAY withhis MILLER maycombine To yield thy muse just half-a-crown per line ? No! when the... | |
 | England - 1846 - 790 pages
...stndy of Fitzball has not been too exclusive, you may perhaps recollect the lines of Byron : — " No ! when the sons of song descend to trade, Their...laurels fade, Let such forego the poet's sacred name, Who rack their brains for lucre, not for fame ; Low may they sink to merited contempt, And scorn remunerate... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 80 pages
...Ballad imitations. 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,..., Their bays are sear , their former laurels fade. in Let such forego the poet's sacred name , "Who rack their brains for lucre , not for fame : Low may... | |
 | 1820 - 562 pages
...mournful to the blast.' And the following are from twenty lines which he bestows on " Marmion :" ' And think'st thou, SCOTT ! by vain conceit perchance,...Though MURRAY with his MILLER may combine To yield thy mnse just half-a-crown per line ? No ! when the sons of song descend to trade, Their bays are sear,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1820 - 260 pages
...disgrace his genius, which is undoubtedly great, by a repetition of black letter ballad imitations. And think'st thou, SCOTT! by vain conceit perchance,...thy stale romance, Though MURRAY with his MILLER may cornbine To yield thy muse just half-a-crown per line? No! when the sons of song descend to trade,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1821 - 156 pages
...half a Knight , 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,...to foist thy stale romance , Though MURRAY with his MIIAER may combine To yield thy muse j ust half-a-crown per line ? No ! when the sons of song descend... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English literature - 1821 - 486 pages
...grace ; A mighty mixture of the great and base. And think'st thou, SCOTT! by vain conceit perchance, Ou public taste to foist thy stale romance, Though MURRAY...with his MILLER may combine To yield thy muse just half-a-crowi: per line ? No ! when the sons of song descend to trade, Their bays are sesr, their former... | |
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