 ... as harmony itself exact, In verse well disciplined, complete, compact, Gave virtue and morality a grace, That, quite eclipsing pleasure's painted face, Levied a tax of wonder and applause, Even on the fools that trampled on their laws. But he (his...  Poems - Page 26by William Cowper - 1805Full view - About this book
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 pages
...on the fools that Campled on their laws. Bat he (his musical jfinessc was such, So nice his ear, no delicate his touch) Made poetry a mere mechanic art;...warbler has his tune by heart. Nature imparting her satiric gift, Her serious mirth, to Arbuthnot and Swift, With droll sobriety they raised a smile At... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1831 - 384 pages
...lines. 1 Cowper says justly of our author, " But he (his musical finesse was such, So nice his ear, so delicate his touch,) Made poetry a mere mechanic art ; And every warbler has his tune by heart." Table Talk. PLAN OF AN EPIC POEM, BY POPE, TO HAVE BEEN WRITTEN IN BLANK VERSE, AND INTITLF.D BRUTUS,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 362 pages
...on the fools that trampled on their laws. But he (his musical finesse was such, So nice his ear, so delicate his touch) Made poetry a mere mechanic art...warbler has his tune by heart. Nature imparting her satiric gift, Her serious mirth, to Arbuthnot and Swift, With droll sobriety they raised a smile At... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 394 pages
...on the fools that trampled on their laws. But he, (his musical finesse was such, So nice his ear, so delicate his touch) Made poetry a mere mechanic art,...warbler has his tune by heart. Nature imparting her satiric gift, Her serious mirth, to Arbuthnot and Swift, With droll sobriety they raised a smile At... | |
 | William Cowper - 1839 - 554 pages
...(his musical finesse was such, So nice his ear, so delicate his touch) Made poetry a mere meehanic art, And every warbler has his tune by heart. Nature imparting her satiric gift, Her serious mirth, to Arbuthnot and Swift, With droll sobriety they raised a smile At... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1845 - 484 pages
...irregular one. If his verse be not so highly polished asr that of Pope, — who, he complains, has Made poetry a mere mechanic art, And every warbler has his tune by heart, — it is in its own way nearly as " well disciplined, complete, compact," as he has described Pope's... | |
 | William Cowper - 1847 - 556 pages
...trampled on their laws. But he (his nfusical finesse was such, So nice his ear, so delicate his touchl Made poetry a mere mechanic art ; And every warbler has his tune by heart. Nature imparting his satiric gift, Her serious mirth, to Arbuthnot and Swift, With droll sobriety they raised a smile... | |
 | 1878 - 496 pages
...play at." " Weak to perform, though mighty to pretend." " Power usurped Is weakness when opposed." " Made poetry a mere mechanic art, And every warbler has his tune by heart." " How much a dunce that has been sent to Borne Excels a dunce that has been kept at home." " Accomplishments... | |
 | William Cowper - 1849 - 740 pages
...on the fools that trampled on their laws. But he, (his musical finesse was such, So nice his ear, so delicate his touch,) Made poetry a mere mechanic art,...warbler has his tune by heart. Nature imparting her satiric gift, Her serious mirth, to Arbutlmot and Swift, With droll sobriety they raised a smile At... | |
 | William Cowper - 1850 - 516 pages
...on the fools that trampled on their laws But he (his musical finesse was such, So nice his ear, so delicate his touch) Made poetry a mere mechanic art...warbler has his tune by heart. Nature imparting her satiric gift, Her serious mirth, to Arbutlmot and Swift, With droll sobriety they raised a smile At... | |
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