 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
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1874 - 876 pages
...epigram of CALLIMACHUS. What woful stuff this madrigal would be In some starved hackney sonneteer, or mo! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the stylo refines! POPE : Enay on Critle'am. MOLIERE has the same sentiment : — Tons... | |
 | William Cowper - 1875 - 340 pages
...Criticism, 1. 418 : ' 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. 102. Cp. Table Talk, 1. 542 ; and Pope's Essay on Criticism,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1875 - 352 pages
...on Criticism, 1. 418 : '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 !' I. 102. Cp. Table Talk, 1. 542 ; and Pope's Essay on Criticism,... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1875 - 868 pages
...epigram of CALLIMACHUS. 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! POPE : Essay on Criticism. MOLIERE has the same sentiment : —... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 pages
...skims along the main. Part ii. Line 162. For fools admire, but men of sense approve. Part ii. Line 191. But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens 1 how the style refines ! Part ii. Line 220. Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But, like... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 pages
...content. POPE. What woeful stuff this madrigal would be In some starved hackney-sonnetteer or me I But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens 1 how the style refines ! POPE. Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes, and know What's... | |
 | 1877 - 362 pages
...Looks — LOOKS kill love, And love by looks reviveth. — SHAKESPERE, Veпios and Adoni*. Lord. — But let a LORD once own the happy lines, How the wit brighteus ! how the stye refines ! POPE, Еssау on Criticigm. — LORD of himself, though not of... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 pages
...take upon content. POPE. What woeful stuff this madrigal would be In some starved hackney-somietteer or me ! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens ! how the style refines ! POPE. Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes, and know What's... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 636 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 stile refines ! Before his sacred name flies ev'ry fault, And each exalted stanza... | |
 | 1880 - 578 pages
...hat. Pope 418 — 423. 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! Before his sacred name flies every fault, And each exalted stanza... | |
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