 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
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1857 - 584 pages
...finds, that having " [" What woful stuff, this madrigal would be, In some starv'd hackney sonneleer, or me ; But let a Lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens ! how the style refines 1 Before his saered name flies every fault, And each exalted stanza... | |
 | William Cowper, James Robert Boyd - 1857 - 476 pages
...Fascination of a name : "What woeful stuff this madrigal would bo, In some starved, Iiackney'd sonneteer, or me! But let a Lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens 1 how the style refines 1" Pope. Essay on Crit. 418. 102. Some {he style, <fec. : • " Others... | |
 | Dr. Doran (John) - 1857 - 530 pages
...the one— " What woful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved, hackney'd sonneteer, or me I But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens and the style refines!" And thus sung the other— " Toua lea discours sont des sottises,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 330 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... | |
 | Dr. Doran (John) - 1859 - 564 pages
...writes the one — " What woful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved, hackuey'd sonnateer, or me ! But let a lord once own the happy lines. How the wit brightens and the style refines ! " And thus sung the other — " Tous les discours sont des sottises,... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1860 - 538 pages
...epigram of CALLIMACHUS. What woful stuff this madrigal would bo In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style reflnes! FOPB : Emay on Criticam. MOLIERE has the same sentiment : — Tons... | |
 | Henry Boynton Smith, James Manning Sherwood - 1862 - 774 pages
...Pope, under four words, and contrived to introduce twelve faults in the citation. The couplet was : But let a lord once own the happy lines ; How the wit brightens ! how the style refines ! The words under which they are cited are, Brighten, Refine, Style,... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pages
...Line 80. SONNETTEER.—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 1 POPE. — On Criticism, Line 418. SORROW. — Affliction may one... | |
 | James Ewing Ritchie - 1866 - 912 pages
...was when Pope wrote — '" What woful stuff this madrigal would be In some starved hackney sonnetter 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 every fault, And each exalted stanza... | |
 | 1866 - 328 pages
...cany 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... | |
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