 | Isaac Disraeli - Authors - 1865 - 570 pages
...revenge and just chastisement. Savage has brought out the features strongly, in these touches— " Say what revenge on Dennis can be had, Too dull for laughter, for reply too mad. On one so poor you cannot take the law, On one so old your sword you scorn to draw. Uncaged then, let the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1866 - 338 pages
...JOURNAL." ON JOHN DENNIS. SHOULD Dennis print, how once you robb'd your brother, Traduc'd your monarch, and debauch'd your mother; Say, what revenge on Dennis...be had ; Too dull for laughter, for reply too mad ? Of one so poor you cannot take the law; On one so old your sword you scorn to draw. Uncag'd then... | |
 | Francis Atterbury - 1869 - 512 pages
...one on Dennis, the critic, with whom he was intimate : — Should Dennis publish yon had stabb'd yonr brother, Lampoon' d your monarch, or debauch'd your...— Too dull for laughter, for reply too mad. On one SO poor you cannot take the law, On one 80 old your Bword you scorn to draw ; Uncaged, then, let the... | |
 | Francis Atterbury - 1869 - 500 pages
...critic, with whom he was intimate : — Should Dennis publish you had gtabb'd your brother, Lampoon'd your monarch, or debauch'd your mother, Say what revenge...had—- Too dull for laughter, for reply too mad. On one so poor you cannot take the law, On one so old your sword you scorn to draw ; Uncaged, then, let the... | |
 | Edward Vaughan Kenealy - 1869 - 320 pages
...indignation. I will * Should Dennis publish yon had Btabbed your brother, Lampooned your monarch, or debauched your mother, Say what revenge on Dennis can be had...? Too dull for laughter, for reply too mad. On one so poor you cannot take the law, On one so old, you scorn your sword to draw, Uncaged then let the... | |
 | Edward Wortley Montagu - 1870 - 544 pages
...been so. * Should JDoniiis publish you had stabbed your brother. Lampooned your monarch, or debauched your mother, Say what revenge on Dennis can be had? Too dull for laughter, for reply too mad. On one so poor yon cannot take the law, On one so old, you scorn your sword to draw, Uncaged then let the... | |
 | Henry Benjamin Wheatley - London (England) - 1870 - 454 pages
...no one's but that fool Savage's." The fool, however, revenged himself by a stinging epigram : — " Say what revenge on Dennis can be had ? Too dull for laughter, for reply too mad. On one so poor you cannot take the law, On one so old your sword you scorn to draw. Uncaged, then, let the... | |
 | James Grant - English newspapers - 1871 - 478 pages
...English Poets :" Should Dennis publish you had stabbed your brother, Lampoon'd your monarch, or debauched your mother, Say what revenge on Dennis can be had...Too dull for laughter — for reply too mad ; On one so poor you cannot take the law ; On one so old your sword you scorn to draw. Uncag'd then let the... | |
 | James Grant - English newspapers - 1871 - 478 pages
...Poets :" Should Dennis publish you had stabbed your brother, Lanipoon'd your monarch, or debauched your mother, Say what revenge on Dennis can be had?...Too dull for laughter — for reply too mad ; On one so poor you cannot take the law ; On one so old your sword you scorn to draw. Uncag'd then let the... | |
 | William Clark Russell - Authors, English - 1871 - 550 pages
...brother, Lampoon'd your monarch, or debauch'd your mother, 1 26 John Dennis — Montague, Earl of Halifax, Say, what revenge on Dennis can be had, Too dull for laughter, for reply too mad ? On one so poor you cannot take the law, On one so old your sword you scom to draw ; Uncag'd then, let the... | |
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Should Dennis publish, you had stabb'd your brother, Lampoon'd your Monarch, or debauch'd your mother ; Say, what revenge on Dennis can be had ? Too dull for laughter, for reply too mad : On one so poor you cannot take the law ; On one so old your sword... 
