 I will not wish unto you the ass's ears of Midas, nor to be driven by a poet's verses (as Bubonax was) to hang himself, nor to be rhymed to death, as is said to be done in Ireland; yet thus much curse I must send you, in the behalf of all poets, that...  The Retrospective Review - Page 551824Full view - About this book
 | Philip Sidney - 1724 - 270 pages
...Poets, That while you live, you live in love, and ever get favour, for lacking skill of a fonnet 5 and when you die, your memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph. ASTROASTROPHEL AND STELLA: OVING in truth, and fain in verfe my love to fhow, That fhe, dear fhe !... | |
 | Sir Philip Sidney - Poetry - 1787 - 158 pages
...Poets ; That while you live, you live in love, and never get favour, for lacking Jkill of a fonnet ; and when you die, your memory die from the earth, for want of an epitaph. OBSE-RI :.•) :Lilv : .-r'ii-jo •. ;. { vL ! I L'-I. t I..- -v-• . '- - :.l . .a »;... J : ^»»... | |
 | Sir John Harington - Great Britain - 1804 - 502 pages
...you, [the Momus of poetry] in the behalfe of all poets, that while you live, you live in love, and never get favour, for lacking skill of a sonnet ;...memory die from the earth, for want of an epitaph." [OKTI'S ET VITA GULIELMI DE WICKHAM olim Episcopi Ji'intoniensis, K conditoris istius Collegii.7} A... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - Bibliographical literature - 1807 - 912 pages
...behalf of all poets, that while you live, you live in love, and never get favour, for lacking *k.\\ of a sonnet; and when you die, your memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph." ISC • P. 379ART XTI. Mischief s My slerie; or Treason's Master piece: -th'i Powder Plot, invented... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - Bibliography - 1807 - 456 pages
...poets, lhat while you live, you live in love, and never get favour, for lacking skill of a sounet; and when you die, your memory die from the earth for want of an rpitapb." ISC • P. 379. ART. XII. Mischiefs Mysterie ; or Treason's Master piece: th? Powder Plot,... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - Bibliography - 1815 - 470 pages
...thus much curse I must send you in the behalf of all poets, that while you live, you live in love, and never get favour, for lacking skill of a sonnet ;...memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph." ISC Additions to ARCADIA, erroneously ascribed to Robert Baron. The Editor is much obliged by the hint... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1817 - 494 pages
...thus much curse 1 must lend you, in behalf of all Poets, That while you live, you live in love, and never get favour for lacking skill of a sonnet ; and...memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph. — Defense of Poesy. SIDNEY, than whom no gentler, braver man, His own delightful genius ever feigned,... | |
 | Literature - 1826 - 450 pages
...while you lacking skill of a sonnet ; and when you live, you live in love, and never get favour for die, your memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph." On the evening of St. Bartholomew's, during the massacre, a citizen of Paris, reputed to he very rich,... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...thus much curse I must lend you in the behalf of all poets, that while you live you live in love, and never get favour for lacking skill of a sonnet; and...memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph. — Sir P. Sidney's Defence of Poesy. CCCXCI. What would you have, you cure, That like nor peace nor... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 352 pages
...thus much curse I must lend you in the behalf of all poets, that while you live you live in love, and never get favour for lacking skill of a sonnet; and...die, your memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph.—Sir P. Sidney's Defence of Poesy. CCCXCI. What would you have, you cum, That like nor peace... | |
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