 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1897 - 610 pages
...image of gold. And we have the ringing words of a man of genius about a greater than either, that he ' For gain, not glory, winged his roving flight, And grew immortal in his own despite.' But it lies in Shakespeare's works that this is but part of the truth. It lies more remarkably in the... | |
 | Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - 1855 - 232 pages
...writings than to procure a subsistence ; or, as he puts the opinion in his poignant verse — " Shakspere (whom you and every play-house bill Style the divine,...roving flight, And grew immortal in his own despite." Shakspere himself confirms Pope's estimate of his character. He made his fortune, and forgot his plays.... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1860 - 250 pages
...aim than to procure a subsistence ; or, as he puts the opinion in his poignant verse — " Shakspere (whom you and every play-house bill Style the divine,...roving flight, And grew immortal in his own despite." Shakspere himself confirms Pope's estimate of his character. He made his fortune, and forgot his plays.... | |
 | 1876 - 600 pages
...dichtregelen: „Shakespeare, whom you and ev'ry play house bill Style the divine , the m atchless , what you will , For gain , not glory , winged his...roving flight , And grew immortal in his own despite." Stellen wij nu deze twee Shakespeares nevens elkander : de Shakspeare der geschiedenis en Shakespeare:... | |
 | 1877 - 630 pages
...impossible. ' Shakespeare (whom you and every play-house bill Call the divine 1 the matchless ! what yon will) For gain, not glory, winged his roving flight, And grew immortal in his own despite.' His mortal parts are now visible in much obsolete wit, extravagance of fancy, and obscurity of expression.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1878 - 656 pages
...Shakespeare 2 (whom you and every play-house bill Style the divine, the matchless, what you will) 70 For gain, not glory, winged his roving flight, And grew immortal in his own despite. Ben, old and poor, as little seemed to heed 1 Courtesy of England, a legal term signifying the custom... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1881 - 572 pages
...merits, look in Stowe,1 And estimating authors hy the year, Bestow a garland only on a bier. Shakespeare (whom you and every play-house bill Style the divine,...roving flight, And grew immortal in his own despite.' Ben, old and poor, as little seemed to heed The life to come in every poet's creed.* Who now reads... | |
 | 1881 - 692 pages
...Pope, whose pen spared very few, has the following lines : " Shakespeare (whom you and every playhons« bill Style the divine, the matchless, what you will),...roving flight, And grew immortal in his own despite." He also protested against the absurd extravagance of Shakespeare-worship, in the following satire :... | |
 | Leslie Stephen, Sir Sidney Lee - 1897 - 482 pages
...temperament, with a turn for good-humoured satire. Pope had just warrant for his surmise that Shakespeare For gain not glory winged his roving flight, And grew immortal in his own despite. With his literary power and sociability there clearly went the shrewd capacity of a man of business.... | |
 | Mary R. Silsby - 1892 - 282 pages
...publication, and Gay and other writers addressed him in flattering terms.] SHAKESPEARE. Shakespeare (whom you and every play-house bill Style the divine,...roving flight, And grew immortal in his own despite. * * * * Not but the tragic spirit was our own, And full in Shakespeare, fair in Otway shone; But Otway... | |
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Shakespeare, (whom you and every play-house bill Style the divine, the matchless, what you will,) For gain, not glory, winged his roving flight, And grew immortal in his own despite. 
