 | Nathan Drake - 1805 - 424 pagina’s
...poet, experienced similar treatment, the following epigram will abundantly prove : In merry Old England it once was a rule, The King had his poet and also...That Gibber can serve both for fool and for poet. There is much reason to suppose, that the ludicrous ideas, so generally associated with this poetical... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1805 - 420 pagina’s
...poet, experienced similar treatment, the following epigram will abundantly prove : In merry Old England it once was a rule, The King had his poet and also...That Gibber can serve both for fool and for poet. There is much reason to suppose, that the ludicrous ideas, so generally associated with this poetical... | |
 | Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - 1806 - 360 pagina’s
...line. * GAY , épis tic to Bernard Lintott. ON CIBBER, THE POET-LAURKAT (i). In merry old England, it once was a rule, The king had his poet and also his fool ; But now we're'so frugal, l'd have you to knotv it: Poor Cibber must serve both for fool and for poet.** * Que... | |
 | Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - 1806 - 360 pagina’s
...epistle to Bernard Lintott. ON CIBBER, THE POET-LAUREAT (l). In merry old England , it once was a ru le , The king had his poet and also his fool ; But now we're so frugal, l'd have you to know it : Poor Cibber must serve both for fool and for poet.** *Que la courte ipigramme... | |
 | 1806 - 274 pagina’s
...friendship/ear; And notling, but his vanity, sincere. LVII. (ECONOMY IN SELECTION. In merry old England it once was a rule, The king had his poet, and also hi§ fool : But now we're so frugal, I'd have you to know it, That C-— n. can serve both for fool... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 pagina’s
...and is- further strengthened in the following epigram made on that occasion : In merry Old England it once was a rule, The king had his poet, and also his fool ; But nowwe're so frugal, I'd have you to know i'That Cibber can serve both for fool and for poet Of Blackmore,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 374 pagina’s
...strengthened in the following Epigram, made on tlwt occasion : " In merry Old England it once was a rtrle, The King had his poet, and also his fool : But now...That Gibber can serve both for fool and for poet." Of Blackmore, see Book ii. Of Philips, Book i. ver. 26i. and Book iii. props jin, Nahum Tate was Poet... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1814 - 404 pagina’s
...poet, experienced similar treatment, the following epigram will abundantly prove : In merry Old England it once was a rule, • The King had his poet and...frugal, I'd have you to know it, That Gibber can serve botli for fool and for poet. There is much reason to suppose, that the ludicrous ideas, so generally... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pagina’s
...will) — that day Shall I lament to see. British Economy. IN merry Old England it once was a rule I he king had his poet, and also his fool • But now we're so frugal, I'd have you to know it, . Tpoet Poor Gibber must serve both for fool and for Found stuck on the S/a/ue of the Moor which supports... | |
 | John Nichols - 1817 - 874 pagina’s
...; and is further strengthened in the following Epigram, made on that occasion: In merry old England it once was a rule, The King had his Poet, and also...That Gibber can serve both for Fool and for Poet."] * " Nahuin Tale was Poet Laureate, a cold writer, of no invention ; but sometimes translated tolerably... | |
| |
In merry old England it once was a rule, The King had his Poet, and also his Fool : But now we're so frugal, I'd have you to know it, That Cibber can serve both for Fool and for Poet. 
