 | Austin Dobson - 1901 - 212 páginas
...Satyrist," a " Drawcansir in Wit " — " who, to make his Poetical Fame immortal, like another JUrostratus, set Fire to his Stage, by writing up to an Act of Parliament to demolish it. I shall not," he continues, " give the particular Strokes of his Ingenuity a Chance to be remembered,... | |
 | Watson Nicholson - 1906 - 500 páginas
...Herculean Satyrist ! This Drawcansir in Wit, that spared neither Friend nor Foe ! who, to make his Poetical Fame immortal, like another Erostratus, set Fire to...writing up to an Act of Parliament to demolish it. I shall not give the particular Strokes of his Ingenuity a Chance to be remembered, by reciting them... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1907 - 240 páginas
...pseudonym in the Champion, a "Herculean Satyrist," a " Drawcansir in Wit" — "who, to make his Poetical Fame immortal, like another Erostratus, set Fire to...writing up to an Act of Parliament to demolish it. I shall not," he continues, "give the particular Strokes of his Ingenuity a Chance to be remembered,... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 616 páginas
...Herculean satirist ! this Urawcansir in wit, who spared neither friend nor foe ! who, to make his poetical fame immortal, like another Erostratus, set fire to...writing up to an act of parliament to demolish it. I shall not give the particular strokes of his ingenuity a chance to be remembered by reciting them;... | |
 | Charles E. Pearce - 1913 - 492 páginas
...knew, too, that as he was in haste to get money it would take up less time to be intrepidly allusive, than decently entertaining; that to draw the mob after...abuse; for about the same time he attacked Sir Robert W and in a most violent manner in the paper called The Champion, written, as the title set forth, by... | |
 | Wilbur Lucius Cross - 1918 - 628 páginas
...down to irretrievable disaster. "Like another Erostratus," said Colley Gibber picturesquely, Fielding "set fire to his stage, by writing up to an Act of Parliament to demolish it."* This is the mixed metaphor of an enemy; but the words are essentially true. Fielding's attacks on the... | |
 | Wilbur Lucius Cross - 1918 - 508 páginas
...to irretrievable disaster. "Like another Erostratus," said Colley Gibber picturesquely, Fielding ' ' set fire to his stage, by writing up to an Act of Parliament to demolish it. ' '* This is the mixed metaphor of an enemy; but the words are essentially true. Fielding's attacks... | |
 | Wilbur Lucius Cross - 1918 - 508 páginas
...down to irretrievable disaster. "Like another Erostratus," said Colley Cibber picturesquely, Fielding "set fire to his stage, by writing up to an Act of Parliament to demolish it. ' '* This is the mixed metaphor of an enemy; but the words are essentially true. Fielding's attacks... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1983 - 1028 páginas
...passage in his autobiography typical of the wit for which he is celebrated in Pope's Dunciad, Fielding, "like another Erostratus, set fire to his stage, by...writing up to an Act of Parliament to demolish it": Fielding's satires so incensed the Minister that he forced the passage of the Licensing Act of 1737,... | |
 | Thomas R. Cleary - 1984 - 366 páginas
...Herculean Satirist, this Drawcansir in Wit, that spared neither Friend nor Foe; who to make his poetical Fame immortal, like another Erostratus, set Fire to...writing up to an Act of Parliament to demolish it. I shall not give the particular Strokes of his Ingenuity a Chance to be remembered by reciting them;... | |
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Herculean satirist, this drawcansir in wit, that spared neither friend nor foe ; who, to make his poetical fame immortal, like another Erostratus, set fire to his stage, by writing up to an act of parliament to demolish it. 
