 | 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... | |
 | Voltaire - 1901 - 348 pages
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 | 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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Where sordid interest shows the prey. When once the poet's honour ceases, From reason far his transports rove ; And Boileau, for eight hundred pieces, Makes Louis take the wall of Jove. 
