 What woful stuff this madrigal would be In some starved hackney sonneteer or me ! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines ! Before his sacred name flies every fault, And each exalted stanza teems with thought.  Solitude - Page 19de Johann Georg ritter von Zimmermann - 1819 - 368 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | William Kenrick - 1775 - 616 pages
...writer fays elfewhere> What woful fluff this madrigal would be In fome Itarv'd hackney-fonneteer or me f But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens ! how the ftyle refines ! Before his facred name flies ev'ry fault, And each exalted fianza... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1777 - 186 pages
...cirry nonfenfu for my loid. What woful (tuff this madrigal would be, In fome ftarv'd hackney fonneteer, or me? But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens ! how the ftyle refines ! Before his faered name flies ev'ry fault, And each exalted ft.mza... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1778 - 410 pages
...nonfenfe for my Lord. What woful ftuff this madrigal would be, 420 In fome ftarv'd hackney foneteer, or me ? But let a Lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the ftyle refines! Before his facred name flies ev'ry fault, And each exalted ftanza... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1783 - 322 pages
...nonfenfe for my Lord. What woful fluff this madrigal would be In fome flarv'd hackney- fonneteer, or me I But let a Lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens ! how the ftyle refines ! Before his facred name flies ev'ry fault, And each exalted ftanza... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 966 pages
...nonlenfe for my lord : What woful fluff this madrigal would be, In fome ftarv'd hackney fonnetteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens ! how the ftyle refines ! Before his facred name flies ev'ry fault, 'And each exalted ftanza... | |
 | 1795 - 846 pages
...apt to exclaim with Pop:, What woful (tuff this madrigal would be In fome ftarv'd hackney fonncttccr, or me ! But let a lord once own the happy lines How the wit brightens, ruw the ftyle refinei!" " It is certain," fays Lord Orford, " that his Grace's compofuion«,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1796 - 574 pages
...for my lord : What woeful fluff this madrigal would be, la fomt ftarv'd hackney lonnetteer, or me 1 But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens ! how the rtylc refines ! Bcf-irt: his facrcd name files ev'ry fault, And each exalted fianza... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1797 - 442 pages
...exclaim with our author, " What woeful fluff this madrigal would be, In feme ftarv'd hackney fonneteer, or me ? But let a Lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens ! and the fenfe refines. Before his facred name flies every fault, And each exalted ftanza... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1797 - 444 pages
...exclaim with our author, " What woeful fluff this madrigal would be, In fome ftarv'd hackney fonneteer, or me ? But let a Lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens ! and the fenfe refines. Before his facred name flies every fault, And each exalted ftanza... | |
 | Johann Georg Zimmermann - 1800 - 410 pages
...for my Lord, What woeful fhiff this madrigal would be, In fome ftarv'd hackney fonnetteer, or me I But let a Lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens I how the ftyle refines ! Before his facred name flies every fau't, And each exalted ftanza... | |
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