| Matthew Prior - English poetry - 1860 - 338 pages
...breath should raise, Would that have spoil'd the Poet's song, Or puff'd away the monarch's praise ? Pindar, that eagle, mounts the skies : While Virtue leads the noble way : Too like a vulture Boileau flies, Where sordid Int'rest shows the prey. When once the Poet's honour ceases, From reason... | |
| sir Edmund William Gosse - 1881 - 304 pages
...breath should raise, Would that have spoil'd the poet's song, Or puff'd away the monarch's praise. Pindar, that eagle, mounts the skies ; While virtue leads the noble way : Too like a vulture Boileau flies, Where sordid interest shows the prey. G Mais, à ma fidèle lyre, Si dans [ardeur qui... | |
| Phil Robinson - Birds in literature - 1883 - 540 pages
...pinions soar From Tiber's banks than now from Danube's shore. — Prior : A Letter. (94) Pindar, tin! eagle, mounts the skies, While Virtue leads the noble way ; Too like a vulture Boileau flies, Where sordid int'rest shows the prey. — frifr : Ballad. (95) Nor the pride nor ample... | |
| Voltaire - 1901 - 614 pages
...Satyrique flatteur, toi guipris tant de print. Pour chanter gue Louis ri a point passt le Rhin, etc, Pindar, that eagle, mounts the skies, While virtue leads the noble way ; Too like a vulture Boileau flies, Where sordid interest shows the way. When once the poet's honour ceases, From reason... | |
| Alexander Frederick Bruce Clark - Comparative literature - 1925 - 566 pages
...merciless2. The following stanza is characteristic for its fling at Boileau as a mere poetical mercenary : Pindar, that eagle, mounts the skies, While virtue leads the noble way ; Too like a vulture Boileau flies, Where sordid interest shows the prey. When once the poet's honour ceases, From reason... | |
| Howard D. Weinbrot - History - 2005 - 412 pages
...des Vulgaires yeux" (1:140). Prior adapts, expands, and criticizes the figure and the poet behind it: PINDAR, that Eagle, mounts the Skies; While Virtue leads the noble Way: Too like a Vultur BOILEAU flies, Where sordid Interest shows the Prey. (1:141) Prior's best poem in this extended... | |
| Matthew Prior - English poetry - 1709 - 404 pages
...Breath should raise ; Would that have spoil'd the Poet's Song ; Or puff'd away the Monarch's Praise ? PINDAR, that Eagle, mounts the Skies ; While Virtue leads the noble Way: Too like a Vultur BOILEAU flies, Where sordid Interest shows the Prey. When once the Poet's Honour ceases, From... | |
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