 | 1796 - Liczba stron: 500
...Keep close to ears, and those let asses prick, 'Tis nothing.— P. Nothing! if they bite and kick ? Out with it, Dunciad! let the secret pass, That secret to each fool, that he's an ass: So The truth once told (and wherefore should we lie?) The Queen of Midas slept, and so may I. . •... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - Liczba stron: 190
...Keep close to ears, and those let asses prick, 'Tis nothing. — P. Nothing ! if they bite and kick ? Out with it, Dunciad ! let the secret pass, That secret to each fool, that he's an ass ; 80 The truth once told, (and wherefore should we lie ?) The Queen of Midas slept, and so may I. You... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - Liczba stron: 474
...; Keep close to ears, and those let asses prick, Ta nothing.— P. Nothing! if they hite and kick? Out with it, Dunciad ! let the secret pass, That secret to each fool, that he's an ass : The truth once told (and wherefore should we lie !) The queen of Midas slept, and so may I. You think... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - Liczba stron: 562
...Keep close to ears, and those let asses prick, 'TU nothing. — P. Nothing! if they bite and kick ? Out with it, Dunciad ! let the secret pass, That secret to each fool, that he's an ass : 80 The truth once told (and wherefore should we lie ?) The- Queen of Midas slept, and so may I. You... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - Liczba stron: 388
...close to ears, and those let asses prick, Tis nothing. — P. nothing I if they hite and kick i Ont with it, Dunciad ! let the secret pass, That secret to each fool, that he's an ass : The truth once told (and wherefore should we lie ?) The queen of Midas slept, and so may I, You think... | |
 | 1809 - Liczba stron: 402
...Keep close to ears, and those let asses prick, 'Tia nothing— V, Nothing, if they bile and I kick ? Out with it, Dunciad ! let the secret pass, That secret to each fool, that he's an ass : The truth once told (and wherefore should we lie?) The Queen of Midi- slept, and so may I. You think... | |
 | Persius - 1809 - Liczba stron: 322
...organe, Midas, It rot Midas, a les oreilles d'dne. Mr. Owen observes that Pope has a similar passage : Out with it, Dunciad ! let the secret pass ; — That secret to each fool, that he's an ass. But Pope probably borrowed the idea immediately from Boileau. erhaps what Horace says of Lucilius,... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - Liczba stron: 526
...Keep close to ears, and those let asses prick, 'Tis nothing.— P. Nothing ! if they bite and kick ? Out with it, Dunciad! let the secret pass, That secret to each fool, that he's an ass: The truth once told (and wherefore should we lie ?) The queen of Midas slept, and so may I. You think... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - Liczba stron: 604
...close to Ears, and those let Asses prick, Tis nothing — P. Nothing, if they bite and kick? Out wilh t poor mimic art; Hence (manly praise!) that manner nobly fref, W he 's an Ass : [lie ? The truth once told (and wherefore should we The Queen of Midas slept, and so... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - Liczba stron: 536
...and those let asse» priok, Thi nothing— P. Nothing? if they bite and kick? Out with it, Dtinciad ! let the secret pass, That secret to each fool, that he's an an: 80 The truth once told (and wherefore should we lie ?) The queen of Midas slept, and so may t.... | |
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The truth once told (and wherefore should we lie ?) The queen of Midas slept, and so may I. You think this cruel ? take it for a rule, No creature smarts so little as a fool. 
