 Yok'd with a slow-foot ox on fallow field, Can right areed how handsomely besets Dull spondees with the English dactylets. If Jove speak English in a thundring cloud, " Thwick thwack," and " riff raff," roars he out aloud. Fie on the forged mint that...  Anecdotes of Literature and Scarce Books - Page 331by William Beloe - 1807Full view - About this book
 | English poets - 1801 - 382 pages
...dactylets. If Jove speak English in a thundering cloud, Thwick-thwack and riff-raff roars he out aloud. Fie on the forged mint that did create New coin of words never articulate ! 1 Understand. UNCERTAIN AUTHORS. The Lover deceived by his Lady's inconstancy, teriteth asfolloweth.... | |
 | Joseph Ritson - English poetry - 1802 - 430 pages
...dactylets. If Jove fpeak Englifh in a thundring cloud Thwich tlauach and riffraff, roars he out aloud. Fie on the forged mint that did create New coin of words never articulate." Milton, likewife, or his nephew Phillips, cenfures this neman, 1583, 4to. to which " other poetical... | |
 | 1802 - 708 pages
...daftylets. If Jove fpeaks Englilh in a thundering cloud, Tlñuick, thwack, and riff-raff roars he out aloud, Fie on the forged mint that did create New coin of words never articulate." The follies againft which the good Bifhop pointed his fatire, in 1597, were revived about two centuries... | |
 | George Ellis - English poetry - 1803 - 468 pages
...dactylets. If Jove speak English in a thundering cloud, Thwick-tkwack and riff-raff roars he out aloud. Fie on the forged mint that did create New coin of words never articulate ! BEN JONSON Was bora in 1574, and died in 103". SONG. [From " The Forest."] COME, ray Celia, let us... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - English poetry - 1805 - 440 pages
...:>•*'• If Jove fpeak Englilh in a thundring cloud, TlrwickJhwack, and riff rajf, roars he out aloud ! Fie on the forged mint that did create ' ' . New coin of words never articulate." See alfo a judicious obfervation of Nafli, in his Foure Letters tonfuted, 1592. Sign. G. 3. " The hexamiter... | |
 | William Beloe - Bibliography - 1807 - 468 pages
...dadyltts. If Jove speak English in a thundring cloud, Tfaaick, thwack and riff' raff roars he out aloud, Fie on the forged mint that did create New coin of...extinguished it, it may be hoped for ever. Few can forget the humourous effusion of the " Needy Knife Grinder." The absurdity, however, was not confined to our countrymen.... | |
 | George Ellis - English poetry - 1811 - 470 pages
...dactylets. If Jove speak English in a thundering cloud, Thtvick-thwaek and riff-raff roars he out aloudFie on the forged mint that did create New coin of words never articulate ! • BEN JONSON Was born in I fr-l, and died in 1637. SONG. [From " The Forest."] V/OME, my Celia,... | |
 | English literature - 1812 - 712 pages
...If Jove fpeaks Engliih in a thundering cloud, Tiñvicí, thwack, and riff-raff roars he out aloud,., Fie on the forged mint that did create New coin of words never articulate." The follies again ft which the good Biihop pointed his fatire, in 1597, were revived about two centuries... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - Bibliography - 1815 - 526 pages
...Hall: " If Jove speak English in ^ thundring cloud, I'/itiM/i thwack, and riff raff roars he out aloud; Fie on the forged mint that did create New coin of words, never articulate." . VIROWBM, LIB. I. SAT, vi. descanteth oiuthe playne song. (This also is hexametrical, as are nearly... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Books - 1817 - 680 pages
...dactylets. If Jove speak English in a thundering cloud, Thwick thwack and riff ran", roars he out a loud, Fie on the forged mint that did create New coin of words neuer articulate." (BI sat. 6.) Our earliest specimen of Stanyhurst's translation of Virgil, is taken... | |
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