 | Jonathan Swift - 1812 - 832 Seiten
...jealous fit, I cry, " Pox take him and his wit i'J I grieve to be outdone by Gay In my own humorous biting way. Arbuthnot is no more my friend, Who dares...irony pretend, Which I was born to introduce, Refin'd it first, and show'd its use. St. John, as well as Pulteney, knows That I had some repute for prose... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1812 - 420 Seiten
...a jealous fit, I cry, " Pox take him and his wit f I grieve to be outdone by Gay In my own humorous biting way. Arbuthnot is no more my friend, Who dares to irony pretend, Which I was bora to introduce, Refm'd it first, and show'd its use. St. John, as well as Pulteney, knows That I... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 534 Seiten
...' • I cry, "Pox take him and his wit I". ' I grieve to be outdone by Gay ./ : In my own humorous biting way. Arbuthnot is no more my friend, Who dares to irony pretend, • i. • Which I was born to introduce, Refin'd it first, and shew'd its use. — St John, as well... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 Seiten
...jealous fit, I cry, " Pox take him and his wit !" I grieve to be outdone by Gay In my own humorous biting way. Arbuthnot is no more my friend, Who dares...irony pretend, Which I was born to introduce, Refin'd it first, and show'd its use. St. John as well as Pulteney knows That I had some repute for prose ;... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 Seiten
...jealous fit, I cry, " Pox take him and his wit !" I grieve to be outdone by Gay In my own humorous light : If I, her vulgar stone, for either look, Out...it must be strook. Yet I must on. What sound is't first, and show'd its use. St. John, as well as Pulteney, knows That I had some repute for prose ;... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 402 Seiten
...jealous fit, I cry, " Pox take him and his wit !" I grieve to be outdone by Gay In my own humorous biting way. Arbuthnot is no more my friend, Who dares...pretend, Which I was born to introduce, Refin'd at first, and show'd its use, St. John, as well as Pulteney, knows That I had some repute for prose ;... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 268 Seiten
...a jealous fit, I cry, ' Pox take him and his wit.' I grieve to be outdone by Gay In my own humorous biting way. Arbuthnot is no more my friend, Who dares...to irony pretend, . Which I was born to introduce, Refined it first, and show'd its use. St. John, as well as Pulteney, knows That I had some repute for... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1823 - 352 Seiten
...jealous fit, I cry, ' Pox take him and his wit.' I grieve to be outdone by Gay In my own humorous hiting way. Arbuthnot is no more my friend, Who dares to...irony pretend, Which I was born to introduce, Refin'd it first, and show'd its use. St. John, as well as Pnlteney, knows That I had some repute for prose,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 Seiten
...• jealous 6t, I cry, " Pox take him and his wit!" I grieve to be outdone by Gay In my own humorous o lavishly adorn, [morn. When forth from virgin bower...comes in th' early Thereto the heavens always jovial it first, and show'd its use. St. John, as well as Pulteney, knows That I had some repute for prose... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1824 - 406 Seiten
...jealous fit, I cry, ' Pox take -him and his wit !' I grieve to be outdone by Gay In my own humorous biting way. Arbuthnot is no more my friend, Who dares to irony pretend, Which I was born to introduce, Refined it first, and show'd its use. St. John, as well as Pulteney, knows That I had some repute for... | |
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In Pope I cannot read a line But, with a sigh, I wish it mine : When he can in one couplet fix More sense than I can do in six, It gives me such a jealous fit, I cry, "Pox take him and his wit. 
