 | Jonathan Swift - 1803 - عدد الصفحات: 386
...forfeit all your patron's grace, And disappoint the sole design, For which he summon'd you to dine. Thus Congreve spent in writing plays, And one poor office, half his days : While Montague, who daim'd the station To be Maecenas of the nation, For -poets open table kept, But ne'er... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1808 - عدد الصفحات: 558
...forfeit all your patron's grace, And dissappoint the sole design, For which he summon'd you to dine. Thus Congreve spent in writing plays, And one poor office, half his days : While Montague, who claim'd the station To be Maecenas of the nation, For poets open table kept, But ne'er... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1812 - عدد الصفحات: 832
...forfeit all your patron's grace, And disappoint the sole design, For which he summon'd you to dine. Thus Congreve spent in writing plays, And one poor office, half his days : While Montague, who claim'd the station To be Maecenas of the nation, For poets open table kept, But ne'er... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - عدد الصفحات: 462
...that this tide of preferment was rather the reward of a staunch politician, than a man of letters. " Thus Congreve spent in writing plays, And one poor...days ; While Montagu, who claimed the station, To be flier ;pnas of the nation, For poets open table kept, But ne'er considered where they slept. Himself,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - عدد الصفحات: 534
...forfeit all your patron's grace, And disappoint the sole design, For which he summon'd you to dine. Thus Congreve spent in writing plays, And one poor office, half his days : While Montague, who claim'd the station To be Maecenas of the nation, For poets open table kept, But ne'er... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 268
...Thus Congreve spent in writing plays, And one poor office, half his days; While Montague1, who claim'd the station To be Mecaenas of the nation, For poets open table kept, But ne'er consider'd where they slept: Himself, as rich as fifty Jews, Was easy, though they wanted shoes : And... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 446
...insipid. Swift, in a copy of Verses to Dr. Delany, speaks thus of Congreve's fortune and situation : Thus, Congreve spent in writing Plays, And one poor Office, half his days : While Montague, who claim'd his station . , • ,• To be Mecaenas of the Nation, For Poets open tables... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 500
...insipid. Swift, in a copy of Verses to Dr. Delany, speaks thus of Congreve's fortune and situation : Thus, Congreve spent in writing Plays, And one poor Office, half his days : While Montague, who claim'd his station To be Meceenas of the Nation, For Poets open tables kept, But ne'er... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 596
...insipid. Swift, in a copy of Verses to Dr. Delany, speaks thus of Congreve's fortune and situation : " Thus, Congreve spent in writing plays, And one poor office, half his days : While Montague, who claim'd his station To be Mecaenas of the nation, For poets open tables kept, But ne'er... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 602
...insipid. Swift, in a copy of Verses to Dr. Delany, speaks thus of Congreve's fortune and situation : " Thus, Congreve spent in writing plays, And one poor office, half his days : While Montague, who claim'd his station To be Mecaenas of the nation, For poets open tables kept, But ne'er... | |
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Was easy, though they wanted shoes ; And crazy Congreve scarce could spare A shilling to discharge his chair... 
