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
| William Cowper - 1854 - Liczba stron: 580
...painted face, Levied a tax of wonder and applause, E'en on the fools that trampled on their laws. But lie (his musical finesse was such, So nice his ear, so...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... | |
| Raymond Dexter Havens - 1922 - Liczba stron: 766
...leave it purely mechanical.3 That is exactly what Cowper and others accused Pope of having done: But he (his musical finesse was such, So nice his ear,...mere mechanic art, And every warbler has his tune by heart.4 "Did he not," asks Henry Headley, "stretch his prerogative too far, by reducing them [poetical... | |
| William Joseph Long - 1925 - Liczba stron: 844
...forgotten. If a poet aspired to fame, he imitated the couplets of Dryden or Pope, who, as Cowper said, Made poetry a mere mechanic art, And every warbler has his tune by heart. Among those who made vigorous protest against the precise and dreary formalism of the age were Collins... | |
| Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1926 - Liczba stron: 236
...verse has become a dull routine easily learned and slavishly practised by the pupils of Pope : — 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. And William Blake, at the very beginning of his career, invoked... | |
| John William Mackail - 1926 - Liczba stron: 272
...full disengagement of the Romantic movement that the tradition was broken. Cowper's saying that he Made poetry a mere mechanic art, And every warbler has his tune by heart, is directed not against Pope himself, but against his imitators ; a similar criticism may be made on... | |
| Oliver Elton - 1928 - Liczba stron: 444
...much adventuring, could say what he wished with almost more than the perfection that it deserved. IV His musical finesse was such, So nice his ear, so delicate his touch. . . . Cowper's familiar lines, sometimes still taken as a slight on Pope, are plainly aimed only at... | |
| Bernard Groom - 1929 - Liczba stron: 412
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| Enid Hamer - 1930 - Liczba stron: 364
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| Hans Meyer - 1930 - Liczba stron: 142
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