 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
 | John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - 1891 - Liczba stron: 406
...writing verse which was followed by hundreds of clever writers. Cowper says of him : — " But Pope— his musical finesse was such, So nice his ear, so...mechanic art, And every warbler has his tune by heart." Pope was not the poet of nature or of humanity ; he was the poet of " the town," and of the Court.... | |
 | Estelle Davenport Adams - 1894 - Liczba stron: 432
...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,...art, And every warbler has his tune by heart. COWPER : Table Talh r . . . Pope, with energy divine, In one strong blaze bade wit and fancy shine ; Whose... | |
 | Lady Strachey (Jane Maria) - 1894 - Liczba stron: 376
...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, Swift. With droll sobriety... | |
 | John Macmillan Brown - 1894 - Liczba stron: 436
...purging it of "wantonness". Pope had great "musical finesse", and a most " delicate touch " ; but he " Made poetry a mere mechanic art, And every warbler has his tune by heart ". Of contemporaries he praises Churchill alone, and writes a most eulogistic epitaph on his old school-fellow,... | |
 | Edmund Kerchever Chambers - 1895 - Liczba stron: 368
...point where discipleship ends and imitation begins. Just as the domineering individuality of Pope — " Made poetry a mere mechanic art, And every warbler has his tune by heart," so, in the region of pastoral, the fascinating individuality of Theocritus became a standing danger... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1895 - Liczba stron: 656
...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, so delicate his touch) Ff2 Made poetry a mere mechanic art, And every warbler has his tune by heart. Nature imparting her... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1899 - Liczba stron: 141
...develop the love of nature, protested against the influence of Pope. Cowper complains that he •* Made poetry a mere mechanic art, And every warbler has his tune by heart." Wordsworth said that in description Pope never had his eye upon his subject. In Sleep and Poetry Keats... | |
 | Robert McWilliam - 1900 - Liczba stron: 644
...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,...Made poetry a mere mechanic art, And every warbler had his tune by heart. Nature imparting her satiric gift, Her serious mirth to Arbuthnot and Swift;... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1901 - Liczba stron: 654
...trampled on their lawfc But he (his musical finesse was such, So nice hh ear, so delicate his touch) Ffa Made poetry a mere 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... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1902 - Liczba stron: 810
...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,...And every warbler has his tune by heart. — COWPER, WILLIAM, 1782, Table Talk. Pope's works are superabundant with superfluous and unmeaning verbage ;... | |
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