 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
 | rev. William Betham - 1803 - 500 pages
...exclaim with our author : ".What woeful 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 ! " It is certain," says the other, " that his Grace's compositions... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 218 pages
...carry nonsense for my lord. What woeful stuff this madrigal would be In some starv'd hackney sonnetteer or me ! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines 1 Before his sacred name flies ev'ry fault, And each exalted stanza... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 924 pages
...in this art. Sftctsttr. What woful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starv'd hackney sonmtlcer or me ! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines! Pupe. SON-J'FEROUS. adj. \_sonvs zn&fcro, Lat.] Giving or bringing... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 316 pages
...madrigal would he In some starv'd hackney sonnetteer or me ! Bnt let a lord once own the happy lines, 220 How the wit hrightens! how the style refines! Before his sacred name flies every fault, And each exalted stanza teems with thought! The vulgar thus tbrough imitation err, As oft the... | |
 | 1807 - 474 pages
...best modern imitator. What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starv'd hackney sonnetteer or me. But let a lord once own the happy lines, . How the wit brightens, how the sense refines. Before his sacred name flies every fault, And each exalted stanza... | |
 | 1807 - 316 pages
...carry Honfenfe for my lord. What woful fluff this madrigal would be, In fame ftarv'd hackney fonneteer, or me ? But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens ! how the ftile refines ! Before his facred name flies ev'ry fault, And each exalted ftanza... | |
 | Percival Stockdale - 1807 - 628 pages
...for my lord. What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonnetteer, or me 1 But let a lord once own the happy lines; How the wit brightens; how the style refines I Before his sacred name flies every fault; And each exalted stanza... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...great man's board, To fetch and carry nonsense for my lord. What woful stuff this madrigal would be In some starv'd hackney souneteer 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...carry nonsense for my lord. What woful stuff this madrigal would be In some starv'd 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... | |
 | 1809 - 488 pages
...carry nonsense for my lord. What woful stuff this madrigal would be In some starv'd hackney sonnetteer 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... | |
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