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Ode X: To Thomas Edwards, Esquire: On The Late Edition Of Mr. Pope's Work Mark Akenside	How Milton scorn'd the sophist vain Who durst approach his hallow'd strain With unwash'd hands and lips...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
'The Rest I Will Tell to Those Down In Hades' Constantine P. Cavafy	' 'You might add,' said the sophist, half smiling, 'if they talk about things like that down there, if they bother about them at...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Fantasy of War Henry Lawson	The sophist in his easy chair, with ne’er a soul to save, The factory slaves went forth to slave, the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Alf’s Eighth Bit Ezra Pound	Come not anear the dark-browed sophist Who on the so well-paid ground Will cheerfully tell you a fist is no fist, Come not here With...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage - Canto The Second. George Gordon Byron	The warrior's weapon and the sophist's stole Are sought in vain, and o'er each mouldering tower, Dim with the mist of years, grey...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt. Canto II. George Gordon Lord Byron	The warrior's weapon and the sophist's stole Are sought in vain, and o'er each mouldering tower, Dim with the mist of years,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Dimaratos Constantine P. Cavafy	outlined by the young sophist as follows (he planned to develop it rhetorically later): 'First a courtier of King Dareios,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
From The School Of The Renowned Philosopher Constantine P. Cavafy	he’ll go to another philosopher or sophist: there’s always someone suitable...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
George Eliot Alfred Austin	Where death the sophist puzzles life no more, But with disdainful silence or clear proof Confuted is for...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Good-by Ralph Waldo Emerson	I laugh at the lore and the pride of man, At the sophist schools, and the learned clan; For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Good-bye Ralph Waldo Emerson	At the sophist schools and the learned clan; For what are they all, in their high conceit, When man in the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Henry Bartle Edward Frere Alfred Austin	The sophist's craft hath grown a prosperous trade, And womanish Tribunes hush the manly drum: The very fear...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Herodis Attikos Constantine P. Cavafy	Alexander of Selefkia, one of our better sophists, on reaching Athens to lecture finds the city deserted because Herodis was in the country and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Hippodromania; Or, Whiffs From The Pipe Adam Lindsay Gordon	They hold our sports in derision; Perchance to sophist, or sage, or seer, Were allotted a graver...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Hymn to Science Mark Akenside	The scholiast's learning, sophist's cant, The visionary bigot's rant, The monk's...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Masefield, Poet And Man Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis	From the lips of the sophist snugly propped On the throne of a pink...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
On the Deaths of Thomas Carlyle and George Eliot: Sonnets Algernon Charles Swinburne	The stormy sophist with his mouth of thunder, Clothed with loud words and mantled in the might Of darkness...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Part I: Visions in the Smoke Adam Lindsay Gordon	They hold our sports in derision ; Perchance to sophist, or sage, or seer, Were allotted a graver...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Sophist Leaving Syria Constantine P. Cavafy	Eminent sophist, now that you are leaving Syria with plans...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Authors: A Satire Richard Savage	And the dark Sophist dims the Text...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Naked Goddess James Thomson	Priest, astrologer, and mage, Subtle sophist, bard, and sage, Brought their wisdom, lore, and wit, To expound or riddle it: Last a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Song of the Surf Adam Lindsay Gordon	Is there never a seer nor sophist can interpret your wild refrain, When speech the harshest and roughest is seldom studied in vain...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To Dr. Moore, Helen Maria Williams	With reason's force the plausive sophist hit, Or dart on folly the bright flash of wit; And warmly share, with philosophic mind, The...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Wormwood and Nightshade Adam Lindsay Gordon	Wiser and worse are one, The sophist is the despiser Of all things under the sun ; Is nothing real but confusion...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)