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" Your people, sir, are partial in the rest; Foes to all living worth except your own, And advocates for folly dead and gone. Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old; It is the Rust we value, not the Gold. Chaucer's worst ribaldry is learn'd by... "
Five Hundred Years of Chaucer Criticism and Allusion (1357-1900) - Page 358
by Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon - 1908
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The First Epistle of the Second Book of Horace, Imitated

Alexander Pope - Epistolary poetry, English - 1737 - 36 pages
...confeft ' IVsA. Your People, Sir, are partial in the reft.. Foes to all living worth except your own, ; d And Advocates for Folly dead and gone. ;:.. Authors, like Coins, grow dear as they grow It is the ruft we value, not the gold. Chaucer's worft ribaldry is learn'd by rote^ . And beaftly *...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 3

Alexander Pope - 1738 - 184 pages
...yet confeft Your People, Sir, are partial in the reft : Foes to all living worth except your own, . And Advocates for folly dead and gone. Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old ; 35 It is the ruft \ve value, not the gold. . I 1 Chaucer's worft ribaldry is learn'd by rote, And...
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The Works of Alexander Pope Esq, Volume 4

Alexander Pope - English literature - 1751 - 288 pages
...ofefcenity, and fcurrilous langaage. P. OF HORACE. Ep. I, Foes to all living worth except your own, And Advocates for folly dead and gone. Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old ; 35 It is the ruft we value, not the gold. 1 Chaucer's worft ribaldry is learn'd by rote, And beaftly...
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The Works of Alexander Pope: Satires, &c

Alexander Pope - 1751 - 278 pages
...an inter Viles atque novos ? excludat jurgia finis. NOTES. Foes to all living worth except your own, And Advocates for folly dead and gone. Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old ; 35 It is the ruft we value, not the gold. 1 Chaucer's worft ribaldry is learn'd by ro'e, And beaftly...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: Satires, &c

Alexander Pope - 1751 - 286 pages
...wholly of ribaldry, ofelcenjtys and ieunilous language. P. Foes to all living worth except your own, And Advocates for folly -dead and gone. Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old; 35 It is the ruft we value, not the gold. 1 Chaucer's worfl ribaldry is learn'd by rote, And beaftly...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Satires, &c

Alexander Pope - 1752 - 434 pages
...partial in the reft: Foes to all living worth except your own, And Advocates for folly dead and gone. 3 4 Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old ; It is the ruft we value, not the gold. 1 Chaucer's worft ribaldry is learn'd by rote, And beaftly Skelton Heads...
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The works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions ..., Volume 4

Alexander Pope - 1754 - 278 pages
...yet confeft Vour People, Sir, are partial in the reft ! Foes to all living worth except your owil« And Advocates for folly dead and gone. Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grdw Oldj 35 It is the ruft we value, not the gold. 1 Chaucer's worft ribaldry is learn'd by ro'tej...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Nine Volumes Complete, with ..., Volume 4

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1760 - 360 pages
...it yet confeft Your People, Sir, are partial in the reft: Foes to all living worth except your own, And Advocates for folly dead and gone. Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old; 35 It is the Ruft we value, not the Gold. 1 Chaucer's worft ribaldry is learn'd by rote, And beaftly...
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The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical ..., Volumes 32-34

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 1164 pages
...it yet confeft Your People, Sir, are partial in the reft : Foes to all living worth except your own, And Advocates for folly dead and gone. ' Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old j 35 It is the raft we vahie, not the gold. 1 Chaucer's worft ribaldry is learn'd by rote, And beaftly...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. in Six Volumes Complete: Imitations, moral ...

Alexander Pope - 1787 - 396 pages
...it yet confelt Your People, Sir, are partial in the reft: Foes to all living worth except your own, And Advocates for folly dead and gone. Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old } 35 It is the ruft we value, not the gold. 1 Chaucer's worft ribaldry is learn'd by rote, And beaftly...
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