 Seapiece," in two odes. Young enjoys the credit of what is called an " Extempore Epigram on Voltaire ;" who, when he was in England, ridiculed, in the company of the jealous English poet, Milton's allegory of " Sin and Death" You are so witty, profligate,...  Lives of the English Poets: Swift-Lyttelton - Page 376by Samuel Johnson - 1905Full view - About this book
 | Edward Young - 1866 - 574 pages
...impromptu to the sneering dolphin himself, he confers upon him compliments still more cold-blooded : — "You are so witty, profligate, and thin, At once we think thee Milton, Death, and Sin." Yet he claims to have " soothed " the irritable and " grisly terror" on Dorset Downs, with "gentle... | |
 | 1866 - 426 pages
...extempore Epigram on Voltaire, who, when in England, ridiculed Milton's Allegory of Death and Sin— You are so witty, profligate, and thin, At once we think thee Milton, death, and sin. But it probably was manufactured by some Wit, from the following passage in the dedication to his Sea... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - 1873 - 526 pages
...had been ridiculing Milton's allegory of Death and Sin, when the English poet exclaimed : ' Thou art so witty, profligate, and thin, ' • At once we think thee Milton, Death, and Sin.' 1873.] Paris and its People. 89 tury the number of Protestants in France was estimated at 1,500,00(1^... | |
 | John Russell (F.E.I.S.) - 1869 - 176 pages
...high-principled strict self-controlled "Next age will see a race m ore profligate than we." (Roscommon.) " You are so witty, profligate, and thin, at once we think thee Milton's Death and Sin." (Epigram on Voltaire.) He led an abandoned life. [Teachers and students will... | |
 | Henry Philip Dodd - 1870 - 652 pages
...in Young's presence, Milton's " Allegory of Sin and Death," which produced this extempore epigram : You are so witty, profligate, and thin, At once we think thee Milton, Death, and Sin. Sir Herbert Croft, who wrote the "Life of Young" for Dr. Johnson, says, in reference to the epigram... | |
 | Epigrammatists - 1870 - 654 pages
...ridiculed, in Tonne's presence, Milton's "Allegory of Sin and Duath," which produced this extempore epigram: You are so witty, profligate, and thin, At once we think thee Milton, Death, and Sin. Sir Herbert Croft, who wrote the " Life of Young " for Dr. Johnson, says, in reference to the epigram:... | |
 | 1871 - 800 pages
...had been ridiculing Milton's allegory of Death and Sin, when the English poet exclaimed: ' Thou art so witty, profligate, and thin, At once we think thee Milton, Death, and Bin.' tury the number of Protestants in France was estimated at 1,500,000, and that a writer in the... | |
 | Henry Philip Dodd - 1875 - 768 pages
...Herbert Croft, who wrote the " Life of Young " for Dr. Johnson, says, in reference to the epigram : " From the following passage in the poetical dedication of his ' Sea-piece ' to Voltuire, it seems that this extemporaneous reproof, if it must be extemporaneous (for what few will... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1883 - 446 pages
...the spirit of a Mephistopheles. Dr. Young wrote the following pithy epigram on Voltaire : " Thou art so witty, profligate, and thin, At once we think thee Milton, death, and sin." Sterne was of a similar habit of mind and body. He was tall, thin, and pale. His countenance was eminently... | |
 | English epigrams - 1878 - 464 pages
...here we see ; j£sigenes, his form was slim, And slight his weight on thee."] ON VOLTAIRE RIDICULING MILTON'S ALLEGORY OF SIN AND DEATH. You are so witty,...thin, At once we think thee Milton, Death, and Sin. Edward Young (1684-1765). [Said to have been made extempore.] cccxv. ON THE FIRST DUKE OF DORSET AND... | |
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