 Thy mighty scholiast, whose unwearied pains Made Horace dull, and humbled Milton's strains. Turn what they will to verse, their toil is vain, Critics like me shall make it prose again.  Miscellanies of literature - Page 266de Isaac Disraeli - 1840Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | John Milton - 1910 - 832 pages
...Bentley, and read "downs and hills." Many of his proposals justified Pope's sneer at " Thy [ie of Dulness] mighty Scholiast, whose unwearied pains Made Horace dull, and humbled Milton's strains." See Tennyson, CEnone: "I waited underneath the dawning hills, / Aloft the mountain lawn was dewy-dark,... | |
 | Sydney Waterlow - 1912 - 246 pages
...God. ' Mistress ! dismiss that rabble from your throne : Avaunt — is Aristarchus yet unknown ? Thy mighty scholiast, whose unwearied pains Made Horace dull, and humbled Milton's strains. Turn what they will to verse, their toil is vain, Critics like me shall make it prose again. Roman... | |
 | 1867 - 1202 pages
...Criticism " would revenge the castigation of Atterbury : — " Avaunt I is ARISTAKCHUS yet unknown ? The mighty Scholiast, whose unwearied pains Made Horace dull, and humbled Milton's strains. Turn what they will to verse, their toil is vain, Critics like me shall make it prose again. Roman... | |
 | George Harley McKnight, Bert Emsley - 1928 - 632 pages
...Bentley's learning did not win for Bentley's emendations general adoption. Pope laughed to scorn in the Dunciad the "mighty scholiast whose unwearied...pains Made Horace dull, and humbled Milton's strains." Thomas Newton, in his edition of Paradise Lost published in 1754, rejects the emendations as the "dotages... | |
 | George Harley McKnight, Bert Emsley - 1928 - 632 pages
...Bentley's learning did not win for Bentley's emendations general adoption. Pope laughed to scorn in the Dunciad the "mighty scholiast whose unwearied...pains Made Horace dull, and humbled Milton's strains." Thomas Newton, in his edition of Paradise Lost published in 1754, rejects the emendations as the "dotages... | |
 | George Harley McKnight - 1928 - 638 pages
...Bentley's learning did not win for Bentley's emendations general adoption. Pope laughed to scorn in the Dunciad the "mighty scholiast whose unwearied...pains Made Horace dull, and humbled Milton's strains." Thomas Newton, in his edition of Paradise Lost published in 1754, rejects the emendations as the "dotages... | |
 | D. H. Rawlinson - 1968 - 254 pages
...and God. 'Mistress! dismiss that rabble from your throne: Avaunt — is Aristarchus yet unknown? Thy mighty scholiast, whose unwearied pains Made Horace dull, and humbled Milton's strains. 20 Turn what they will to verse, their toil is vain, Critics like me shall make it prose again. In... | |
 | Ian Ousby - 1996 - 452 pages
...treatment of MILTON'S PARADISE Losr(1732) discredited him. POPE caricatured him in THE DUNCIAD as a 'mighty scholiast, whose unwearied pains/ Made Horace dull, and humbled Milton's strains'. Bentley's Miscellany A monthly magazine issued by the publisher Richard Bentley from 1837 to 1869.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 pages
...and God. 'Mistress! dismiss that rabble from your throne: Avaunt is Aristarch us yet unknown? 210 Thy mighty scholiast, whose unwearied pains Made Horace dull, and humbled Milton's strains. Turn what they will to verse, their toil is vain, Critics like me shall make it prose again. Roman... | |
 | Peter Cosgrove - 1999 - 300 pages
...of the humanist translator of the Iliad, Alexander Pope. Even in 1744 Pope was still pursuing him: The mighty scholiast, whose unwearied pains Made Horace dull, and humbled Milton's strains. Turn what they will to verse, their toil is vain, Critics like me shall make it prose again. Roman... | |
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