 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
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 pages
...carry nonsense for my lord. What woful stuff this madrigal would be In some starved 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 426 pages
...exclaim with our author, " 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 ! and the sense refines. Before his sacred name flies every fault, And each exalted stanza... | |
 | John Colin Dunlop - 1823 - 636 pages
...well-known lines — " What woful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sounetteer or me ! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens, how the style refines !" Iliona sive Polydorus.—Priam, during the siege of Troy, had intrusted... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...carry nonsense for my lord. 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... | |
 | Daniel Bryan - 1826 - 100 pages
...nonsense for my lord : What woful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonnatteer, 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 - 1826 - 396 pages
...lor my lord. What woeful stuff this madrigal wouU be, In some starved hackney'd sonnetU'er, or me I . But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens ! how the style refines ! Before his sacred name Hies every fault, And each exalted stanza... | |
 | John Colin Dunlop - 1827 - 720 pages
...Pope's well-known lines — " What woful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney aouneUeer or me ! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens, how the style refines !" Iliona sive Polydorus. — Priam, during the siege of Troy, had... | |
 | 1831 - 984 pages
...rubbish of titled authors : What \voful stuff this madrigal would be In some starved, hacknied sonnettorr or me ; ' But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens, and the style refines ! This is sadly, soberly, and disgracefully, the truth. And it springs... | |
 | 1834 - 340 pages
...nonsense for my lord : What useful stuff this madrigal would be, In some etarv'd hackney sonneteer or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens ! how the style refines ! PopeCROMWELL. Age of, Characterized. When Cromwell fought for pow'r,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 506 pages
...nonsense for my lord. What woeful stuff this madrigal would be. In some starved hackney 'd 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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