 Pope, as harmony itself exact, In verse well disciplined, complete, compact, Gave virtue and morality a grace, That, quite eclipsing pleasure's painted face, Levied a tax of wonder and applause, Even on the fools that trampled on their laws. But he (his...  The Life, and Posthumous Writings, of William Cowper, Esqr - Strona 168autor: William Hayley - 1805Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | Alexander Pope - 1854
...long for the bolder and more varied music of Dryden's lines. 1 Cowper says justly of our author, " But he (his musical finesse was such, So nice his ear,...mechanic art; And every warbler has his tune by heart." Table Talk. PLAN OF AN EPIC POEM, BY POPE, TO HAVE BEEN WKITTEN IN BLANK VEESE, AND INTITLED BKUTUS,... | |
 | William Cowper, Robert Southey - 1854
...painted face, Levied a tax of wonder and applause, Even on the fools that trampled on their laws. But he, (his musical finesse was such, So nice his ear,...mechanic art, And every warbler has his tune by heart. Nature imparting her satiric gift, Her serious mirth, to Arbuthnot and Swift, • With droll sobriety... | |
 | REV. H. STEBBING - 1854
...painted face, Levied a tax of wonder and applause, E'en on the fools that trampled on their laws. But he (his musical finesse was such, So nice his ear,...mechanic art ; And every warbler has his tune by heart. Nature imparting her satiric gift, Her serious mirth, to Arbuthnot and Swift, With droll sobriety they... | |
 | JOHN JOHNSON - 1854
...painted face, Levied a tax of wonder and applause, 650 E'en on the fools that trampled on their laws. But he, (his musical finesse was such, So nice his ear, so delicate his touch,) Made poetry a mere mechanick art; And ev'ry warbler has his tune by heart. 655 Nature imparting her satirick gift, Her... | |
 | William Cowper - 1855
...painted face, Levied a tax of wonder and applause, E'en on the fools that trampled on their laws. But he (his musical finesse was such, So nice his ear,...mechanic art ; And every warbler has his tune by heart. Nature imparting her satiric gift, Her serious mirth, to Arbuthnot and Swift, With droll sobriety they... | |
 | William Cowper - 1856 - Liczba stron: 435
...painted face, Levied a tax of wonder and applause, 650 E'en on the fools that trampled on their laws. But he (his musical finesse was such, So nice his ear,...mechanic art ; And every warbler has his tune by heart. 655 Nature imparting her satiric gift, Her serious mirth, to Arbuthnot and Swift, With droll sobriety... | |
 | William Cowper, Henry Stebbing - 1852 - Liczba stron: 687
...of wonder and applause, E'en on the fools that trampled on their laws. But he (his musical fincsso was such, So nice his ear, so delicate his touch)...mechanic art ; And every warbler has his tune by heart. Nature imparting her satiric gift, Her serious mirth, to Arbuthnot and Swift, With droll sobriety they... | |
 | G. Standfast - 1856
...painted face, Levied a tax of wonder and applause, E'en on the fools that trampled on their laws. But he (his musical finesse was such, So nice his ear,...delicate his touch) Made poetry a mere mechanic art; And ev'ry warbler has his tune by heart. Nature imparting her satiric gift, Her serious mirth, to Arbuthnot... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1857 - Liczba stron: 412
...painted face, Levied a tax of wonder and applause, Even on the fools that trampled on their laws. But he (his musical finesse was such, So nice his ear,...mechanic art ; And every warbler has his tune by heart. Nature imparting her satiric gift, Her serious mirth, to Arbuthnot and Swift, With droll sobriety they... | |
 | 1864
...eighteenth century, as evidenced in the school of Dry den and Pope, of which last it was said that he— " Made poetry a mere mechanic art; And every warbler has his tune by heart," — in allusion to the servile attempts of his imitators, who had all the faults -without any of the... | |
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