 | Charles Brockden Brown - 1805 - Liczba stron: 500
...disgust me always, Robertson with his pomp and his strut, and Gibbon with his finical and French manners. With the unwearied application of a plodding Flemish...who draws a shrimp with the most minute exactness, Pope had all the genius of one of the first masters. Never, I believe, were such talents and such drudgery... | |
 | William Hayley - 1806 - Liczba stron: 404
...are correct; but Pope was, in this respect, exempted from the common lot of au thors of that class. With the unwearied application of a plodding Flemish painter, who draws a shrimp VOL. 1. T with the most minute exactness, he had all the genius of one of the first masters. Never,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - Liczba stron: 394
...are correct; but Pope was, in this respect, exempted from the common lot of authors of that class. With the unwearied application of a plodding Flemish painter, who draws a shrimp VOL. 1. T with the most minute exactness, he had all the genius of one of the first masters. Never,... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1826 - Liczba stron: 906
...exactness, all the genius of one of the first masters. " Never," he adds, " were such talents .mil such drudgery united. But I admire Dryden most, who has succeeded by mere dint of genius." The names of the Poets Gower, Spenser, and Cowper form bright jewels in the coronets of the respective... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - Liczba stron: 602
...are correct ; but Pope was, in this respect, exempted from the common lot of authors of that clast With the unwearied application of a plodding Flemish...all the genius of one of the first masters. Never 1 believe were such talents and such drudgery united. But I admire Drydcn most, who has succeeded by... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - Liczba stron: 726
...they are correct; but Pope was in this respect exempted from the common lot of authors of that class. With the unwearied application of a plodding Flemish...believe, were such talents and such drudgery united. But 1 admire Dryden most, who has succeeded by mere dint of genius, and in spite of a laziness and carelessness... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - Liczba stron: 370
...are correct ; but Pope was, in this respect, exempted from the common lot of authors of that class. With the unwearied application of a plodding Flemish painter, who draws a shriwp with the most minute exactness, he had all the genius of one of the first masters. Never, I... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - Liczba stron: 390
...are correct ; but Pope was, in this respect, exempted from the common lot of authors of that class. With the unwearied application of a plodding Flemish...almost peculiar to himself. His faults are numberless, but so are his beauties. His faults are those of a great man, and his beauties are such, (at least... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - Liczba stron: 400
...are correct ; but Pope was, in this respect, exempted from the common lot of authors of that class. With the unwearied application of a plodding Flemish...almost peculiar to himself. His faults are numberless, but so are his beauties. His faults are those of a great man, and his beauties are such, (at least... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - Liczba stron: 406
...are correct ; but Pope was, in this respect, exempted from the common lot of authors of that class. With the unwearied application of a plodding Flemish...laziness and carelessness almost peculiar to himself. 88 See Vol. ip i!62. His faults are numberless, and so are his beauties. His faults are those of a... | |
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With the unwearied application of a plodding Flemish painter, who draws a shrimp with the most minute exactness, he had all the genius of one of the first masters. Never, I believe, were such talents and such drudgery united. 
