 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh - English literature - 1916 - 96 pages
...the church before. When Dryden writes in his most fervent and magnificent style, he writes like this: I will not rake the Dunghill of thy Crimes, For who...read thy Life that reads thy rhymes ? But of King Damd's Foes be this the Doom, May all be like the Young-man Absalom; And for my Foes may this their... | |
 | Mark Van Doren - 1920 - 378 pages
...had been satire at the best; But thou in clumsy verse, unlicked, unpointed, Hast shamefully defiled the Lord's anointed: I will not rake the dung-hill...would read thy life that reads thy rhymes? But of King David 's foes be this the doom, May all be like the young man Absalom; And for my foes may this their... | |
 | Mark Van Doren - 1920 - 382 pages
...cursed him. The midwife laid her hand on his thick skull With this prophetic blessing: Be thou dull. I will not rake the dung-hill of thy crimes, For who would read thy life that reads thy rhymes? To talk like Do-eg and to write like thee. And gradually he secures full possession of the secret which... | |
 | Mark Van Doren - 1920 - 380 pages
...cursed him. The midwife laid her hand on his thick skull With this prophetic blessing: Be thou dull. 1 will not rake the dung-hill of thy crimes, For who would read thy life that reads thy rhymes? To talk like Do-eg and to write like thee. And gradually he secures full possession of the secret which... | |
 | John Dryden - 1923 - 196 pages
...praises had been satires at the best ; But thou in clumsy verse, unlicked, unpointed, Hast shamefully defied the Lord's anointed : I will not rake the dunghill...rhymes ? But of king David's foes be this the doom, May a)l be like the young man Absalom ; And for my foes may this their blessing be, To talk like Doeg and... | |
 | Walter Raleigh - English literature - 1923 - 348 pages
...praises had been satire at the best ; But thou in clumsy verse, unlickt, unpointed, Hast shamefully defied the Lord's anointed : I will not rake the dunghill of thy crimes, But of King David's foes be this the doom, May all be like the young man Absalom ; And for my foes... | |
 | John Dryden, William Congreve, Samuel Johnson, Walter Scott - Authors, English - 1925 - 230 pages
...pull For writing treason and for writing dull . . . I will not rake the dunghill of thy crimes, 504 For who would read thy life that reads thy rhymes...foes be this the doom, May all be like the young man Absalom ; And for my foes may this their blessing be, To talk like Doeg and to write like thee. G 2... | |
 | Mark Van Doren - Poetry - 1928 - 1390 pages
...praises had been satires at the beft; But thou in clumsy verse, unlicked, unpointed, Hast shamefully defied the Lord's anointed: I will not rake the dunghill...foes be this the doom, May all be like the young man Absalom; And for my foes may this their blessing be, To talk like Doeg and to write like thee. Sir... | |
 | American literature - 1858 - 912 pages
...thy bane A double noose thou on thy neck dost pull, For writing treason, and for writing dull. . . I will not rake the dunghill of thy crimes. For who would read thy life who reads thy rhymes ? But of King David's foes be this the doom, May all be like the young man Absalom!... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...the best; But thou in clumsy verse, unlicked, unpointed, Hast shamefully defied the Lord's annointed: I will not rake the dunghill of thy crimes, For who...foes be this the doom, May all be like the young man Absalom; And for my foes may this their blessing be, To talk like Doeg and to write like thee. Doeg... | |
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I will not rake the dunghill of thy crimes, For who would read thy life that reads thy rhymes ? But of King David's foes, be this the doom, May all be like the young man Absalom ; And, for my foes, may this their blessing be, To talk like Doeg, and to... 
