 If on Parnassus' top you sit, You rarely bite, are always bit: Each poet of inferior size On you shall rail and criticise, And strive to tear you limb from limb; While others do as much for him.  On Poetry: a Rapsody - Page 20by Jonathan Swift - 1733 - 28 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Jonathan Swift - Theater - 1734 - 44 pages
...E|ach Poet of inferior Size' \ /rt*..O, On you (hall rail and criticize ; \ '.» o.iilo i^'.-: ^ -:.L:O And ftrive to tear you Limb from Limb, . '' ' While others do as much for hhn. t'ncU t»i;. i. < . , ; The Vermin only teaze and pindh'1'' "* '.. Their Foes fuperior by an Inch.... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1735 - 502 pages
...And try to tear you Limb from Limb, While others do a; much for him j Itl Poems mfeveral Occafions The Vermin only teaZe and pinch Their Foes fuperior by an Inch. So, Nat'ralifts obferve, a Flea Hath fmaller Fleas that on him prey, And thefe have fmaller yet to... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1744 - 416 pages
...inferior Size On you mail rail and criticize ; And try to tear you Limb from Limb, While others d6 as much for him : The Vermin only teaze and pinch Their Foes fuperior by an Inch. So, Nat?ralifts obferve, a Flea Hath fmaller Fleas that on him prey, And, thefe have fmaller yet to... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1752 - 412 pages
...Each poet of inferipi- fize ; Oa you, flmll rail and criticize ; And try to tear you lim& From liinfa, While others do as much for him : The vermin only teaze and pinch Their foes fuperior by an inch. So, Nat'ralifts obferve, a flea Hath fmaller fleas that On him prey, And thefe have fmaller yet to... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1757 - 426 pages
...You rarely bite, are always bit. 3 30 Each poet of inferior fize On you fhall rail and criticife ; And ftrive to tear you limb from limb, While others do as much for him. THE vermin only teafe and pinch 335 Their foes fuperjor by an inch. So nat'ralifts obferve, a flea Hath fmaller fleas... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1767 - 294 pages
...fit, You rarely bite, are always bit. Each poet of inferior fize On you fhall rail and criticife ; And ftrive to tear you limb from limb, While others...only teaze and pinch Their foes fuperior by an inch. S*, So, nat'ralifts oblerve, a flea Hath fmaller fleas that on him prey, And thefe have fmaller ftill... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1767 - 288 pages
...'fit, You rarely bite, are always bit. Each poet of inferior fize On you fhall rail and criticife ; And ftrive to tear you limb from limb, While others...for him. The vermin only teaze and pinch Their foes fupericr by an inch. So, nat'ralifts obferve, a flea Hath fmaller fleas that on him prey, And thefe... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1774 - 410 pages
...You rarely bite, are always bit. .33o Each poet of inferior fize On you fhall rail and criticife : And ftrive to tear you limb from limb, While others do as much for him. The Tie vermine only teaze and pinch 335 Their foes fuperior by an inch. So, nat'ralifts obferve, a flea... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 404 pages
...You rarely bite, are always bit. • 33o Each poet of inferior fize On you fliall rail and criticife, And ftrive to tear you limb from limb ; While others do as much for him The vermin only reafe and pinch 335 Their foes-fuperior by an inch. So, naturalifls obferve, a flea Hath fmaller fleas... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1784 - 398 pages
...fit, You rarely bite} are always bit ; 330 Each poet of inferior fize On you mall rail and criticife, And ftrive to tear you limb from limb ; While others do as much for him. The vermin only teafe and pinch 335 Their foes fuperior by an inch. Sp, naturalifts obferve, a flea Has fmaller fleas... | |
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