 | Alfred Bunn - 1853 - 362 pages
...On Fame's mad voyage by the wind of praise, With what a shifting gale your course you ply, Forever sunk too low, or borne too high ! Who pants for glory...repose, A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows." study of the dramatic profession, rather than trust to any importation of foreign conceit, and foreign*insufficiency.... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...like glow-worms, afar off shine bright, But look'd too near, have neither heat nor light. Webster. Who pants for glory, finds but short repose, A breath revives him, as a breath o'erthrows. Pope. To glory some advance a lying claim, Thieves of renown, and pilferers... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1854 - 340 pages
...or by pun. 295 O you! whom Vanity's light bark conveys On Fame's mad voyage by the wind of praise, With what a shifting gale your course you ply, For...high! Who pants for glory finds but short repose, 300 A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows. Farewell the stage! if just as thrives the play,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1854 - 338 pages
...or by pun. 295 0 you ! whom Vanity's light bark conveys On Fame's mad voyage by the wind of praise, With what a shifting gale your course you ply, For...high! Who pants for glory finds but short repose, 300 A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows. Farewell the stage ! if just as thrives the play,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 pages
...pathos or by pun. 0 you ! whom Vanity's light bark conveys On Fame's mad voyage by the wind of praise, With what a shifting gale your course you ply, For...high ! Who pants for glory finds but short repose, soo A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows. 1 ' Van : ' Vanbrugh. — * ' Astra\a : ' Miss Bolin,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 pages
...pathos or by pun. 0 you ! whom Vanity's light bark conveys On Fame's mad voyage by the wind of praise, With what a shifting gale your course you ply, For...high ! Who pants for glory finds but short repose, soo A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows. 1 ' Van : ' Vanbrugh. — * ' Astrtca : ' Miaa Bolin,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 512 pages
...pathos or by pun. O you! whom vanity's light bark conveys On fame's mad voyage by the wind of praise, With what a shifting gale your course you ply, For ever sunk too low, or borne too high 1 Who pants for glory finds but short repose ; A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows. Farewell... | |
 | Henry Hegart Breen - 1857 - 336 pages
...souffle nous la donna." And Pope has a couplet in which the same turn of thought is preserved : — " Who pants for glory finds but short repose ; A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows." There is a plagiarism in Goldsmith which, I believe, was first pointed out by the "Athenaeum" newspaper.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 384 pages
...pathos or by pun. O you ! whom vanity's light bark conveys On fame's mad voyage by the wind of praise, With what a shifting gale your course you ply, For...repose ; A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows. 8 Sir John Vanbrugh. 7 Mrs. Behn. Farewell the stage ! if just as thrives the play The silly bard grows... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 504 pages
...pun. 0 you ! whom vanity's light bark conveys On Fame's mad voyage by the wind of praise, W'ith wliat ppy lines, How the wit brightens ! how the style refines...every fault, And each exalted stanza teems with thou hun, or a breath o'erthrows. Farewell the stage ! if just as thrives the play, The silly bard grows... | |
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But fill their purse, our poets' work is done, Alike to them by pathos or by pun. O, you ! whom vanity's light bark conveys On fame's mad voyage, by the wind of praise, With what a shifting gale your course you ply, For ever sunk too low, or borne too... 
