 ... 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 - 1853 - 382 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, Robert Southey - 1854 - 476 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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1854 - 468 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, Henry Stebbing - 1854 - 850 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce - 1854 - 352 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 WKITTEN IN BLANK VEESE, AND INTITLED BKUTUS,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1855 - 582 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 - 1856 - 464 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 ; And every warbler has his tune by heart. 655 Nature imparting her satiric gift, Her serious mirth, to Arbuthnot and Swift, With droll sobriety... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1857 - 428 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... | |
 | 1864 - 492 pages
...eighteenth century, as evidenced in the school of Dry den and Pope, of which last it was said that he— " Made poetry a mere mechanic art; And every warbler has his tune by heart," — in allusion to the servile attempts of his imitators, who had all the faults -without any of the... | |
 | William Cowper - 1860 - 506 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... | |
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