 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 Cowper - 1836 - 416 pages
...Par. Lost, vii. 126. 6 What woeful stuff this madigral would be In some starved hackneyed sonneteer or me ! But let a Lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens ! how the style re6nes ! Pope. Essay on Crit. 418. 7 Others for language all their care express,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 402 pages
...Pur. Lost, vii. 126. c What woeful stuff this madigral would be In some starved hackneyed sonneteer or me ! But let a Lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens ! how the style refines ! Pope. Essay on Crit. 418. 7 Others for language all their care... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 578 pages
...fiddler indeed may (1) [" 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1837 - 582 pages
...fiddler indeed may (i) [" 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 ! ilcforc hi* sacred name Hies every fault. And each exalted stan/a... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 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... | |
 | 1844 - 666 pages
...nonsense for my lurd. What wofal stuffthis madrigul would be, In some stained, hackneyed, sonneteer, or me, But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brighteni ! how the style refines! Before the sacred name flies every fault, And each exalted stanza... | |
 | Leonor de Almeida Portugal Lorena e Lencastre Alorna (Marquesa de) - 1844 - 884 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 reGnes! Before his sacred name flies ev'ry fault, And each exalted stanza... | |
 | 1846 - 598 pages
...which he wrote : " What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starv'd hackney'd sonnetteer, or me. But let a Lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens, how the style refines, Before his sacrea name flies every fault, And each exalted stanza... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1848 - 642 pages
...would he, In some starved hackney'd sonnetteer, or me ! But let a lord once own the happy lines, 420 How the wit hrightens ! how the style refines ! Before his sacred name flies every fault, \nd each exalted stanza teems with thought ! The vulgar thus through imitation err; As oft the... | |
 | Amelia Alderson Opie - 1848 - 522 pages
...applauded, on the same principle as that mentioned hy the poet with regard to nohle authors: •' For if a Lord once own the happy lines, How the wit hrightens! how the taste refines!" "Oh! Champagne; very good. —Carry a glass to that young lady;" hutshe indignantly... | |
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