 d to find or forge a fault; A turn for punning, call it Attic salt; To Jeffrey go, be silent and discreet, His pay is just ten sterling pounds per sheet: Fear not to lie, 'twill seem a sharper hit ; Shrink not from blasphemy, 'twill pass for wit; Care...  English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers: A Satireby George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1809 - 85 pagesFull view - About this book
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...will be remembered, in ' English Bards and ' Scotch Reviewers,' taunted Jeffrey on this point — ' To Jeffrey go, be silent and discreet, His pay is just ten sterling pounds a sheet ' — and in the notes to the same satire he made it a reproach to Walter Scott that ' The... | |
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...ready made. Take haekneyed jokes from Miller, got hy rote, With just enough of learning to misquote ; A mind well skilled to find or forge a fault, A turn for punning, eall it Attie salt ; To JEFFREY go, he sileut and disereet, His pay is just ten sterling pounds per... | |
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...ready made, Take hackneyed jokes from MILLER , got by rote , With just enough of learning to misquote ; A mind well skilled to find or forge a fault , A turn for punning, call it Attic salt; To JEFFREY go , he silent and discreet , His pay is just ten sterling pounds per sheet. 70 Fear not to lie , 'twill... | |
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...made. Take — hackneyed jokes from Miller, got by rote, With just enough of learning to misquote ; A mind well skilled to find or forge a fault, A turn...discreet, His pay is just ten sterling pounds per sheet : Fear not to lie, 'twill seem a lucky hit, Shrink not from blasphemy, 'twill pass for wit ; Care not... | |
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...hackney'd jokes from Miller, got by rote, With just enough of learning to misquote; A mind well skill'd to find or forge a fault, A turn for punning, call...discreet, His pay is just ten sterling pounds per sheet; Fear not to lie, 'twill seem a lucky hit, Shrink not from blasphemy, 'twill pass for wit; Care not... | |
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...hackney'd jokes from MILLER, got by rote, With just enough of learning to misquote; A mind well skill'd to find or forge a fault, A turn for punning, call...discreet , His pay is just ten sterling pounds per sheel. Fear not to lie, 'twill seem a lucky hit ; Shririk not from blasphemy , 'twill pass for wi t... | |
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...ready made. Take hackneyed jokes from MILLER, got by rote., With just enough of learning to misquote; A mind well skilled to find or forge a fault; A turn for punning, call it Attic salt ; * « This ingenious yonth is mentioned more particularly, 'with his production, in another place,... | |
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...hackney'd jokes from Miller, got hy rote, With just enough of learning to misquote; A mind well skiil'd to find or forge a fault, A turn for punning, call it Attic salt; To Jeffrey go, he silent and discreet, His pay is just ten sterling pounds per sheet; Fear not to He, 'twill seem... | |
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