| 1858 - 502 Seiten
...scribbler ? Break one cobweb through — He spins the slight self-pleasing thread anew ; Destroy bis fib or sophistry — in vain ! The creature's at his dirty work again !" The Council of the College of Dentists may, as an answer to all vapourings against the institution,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1859 - 384 Seiten
...world. Who shames a scribbler ? break one cobweb thro', He spins the slight self-pleasing thread anew : Destroy his fib, or sophistry, in vain ; The creature's at his dirty work again, Thron'd in the centre of his thin designs, Proud of a vast extent of flimsy lines ! Whom have I hurt... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1863 - 388 Seiten
...world. Who shames a scribbler ? break one cobweb thro', He spins the slight self-pleasing thread anew : Destroy his fib, or sophistry — in vain ! The creature's at his dirty work again, Thron'd in the centre of his thin designs, Proud of a vast extent of flimsy lines. Whom have I hurt... | |
| Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 Seiten
...Flew high ; and as his christian fury rose, Damn'd all for hereties who durst oppose. Dryden, Re. 237. Destroy his fib, or sophistry, in vain ; The creature's at his dirty work again. Pope. Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants ; each claiming truth, And... | |
| James Hain Friswell - 1869 - 498 Seiten
...own set are "scribblers" who are never shamed; spiders of mere words, of one of whom it is said — Destroy his fib or sophistry, in vain, — The creature's at his dirty work again. And in a thousand happy but unhappy lines Pope wounds literature, and makes it bleed at a thousand... | |
| Treasury - 1869 - 474 Seiten
...'sdeath I '11 print it, And shame the fools.' Line 6i. No creature smarts so little as a fool. Lim 84. Destroy his fib, or sophistry in vain ! The creature's at his dirty work again. Liuegi. As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came. Lme 127.... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1869 - 570 Seiten
...Who shames a Scribbler? break one cobweb thro', He spins the slight, self-pleasing thread anew : 90 Destroy his fib or sophistry, in vain, The creature's at his dirty work again, Thron'd in the centre of his thin designs, Proud of a vast extent of flimsy lines ! Whom have I hurt?... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1872 - 168 Seiten
...Who shames a scribler? break one cobweb thro', He spins the slight, self-pleasing thread anew : 90 Destroy his fib or sophistry, in vain, The creature's at his dirty work again, Thron'd on the centre of his thin designs, Proud of a vast extent of fiimzy lines ! Whom have I hurt?... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1872 - 192 Seiten
...Who shames a scribler? break one cobweb thro', He spins the slight, self-pleasing thread anew : 90 Destroy his fib or sophistry, in vain, The creature's at his dirty work again, Thron'd on the centre of his thin designs, Proud of a vast extent of flimzy lines ! Whom have I hurt?... | |
| William John Thoms - 1873 - 344 Seiten
...Sir, — There is nothing so hard to kill as a lie — no one so hard to silence as an impostor. ' Destroy his fib or sophistry — in vain — The creature's at his dirty work again.' Old Geeran, the pretended Centenarian of Brighton, died persisting in his imposture ; and the so-called... | |
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