 ... 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
 | Friedrich Julius Bierbaum - 1889 - 344 pages
...work with paltry pay.3 Having con1 Thus he exclaims against the highly polished poetry of Pope who "Made poetry a mere mechanic art, And every warbler has his tune by heart." 2 He was so poor that he was paying eighteen pence a week to share a bed with a notary's apprentice.... | |
 | Lady Strachey (Jane Maria) - 1894 - 376 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, Swift. With droll sobriety they raised a smile,... | |
 | Estelle Davenport Adams - 1894 - 432 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. COWPER : Table Talh r . . . Pope, with energy divine, In one strong blaze bade wit and fancy shine... | |
 | John Macmillan Brown - 1894 - 436 pages
...purging it of "wantonness". Pope had great "musical finesse", and a most " delicate touch " ; but he " Made poetry a mere mechanic art, And every warbler has his tune by heart ". Of contemporaries he praises Churchill alone, and writes a most eulogistic epitaph on his old school-fellow,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1895 - 656 pages
...trampled on their laws. But he (his musical finesse was such, So nice his ear, so delicate his touch) Ff2 Made poetry a mere mechanic 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... | |
 | Edmund Kerchever Chambers - 1895 - 368 pages
...point where discipleship ends and imitation begins. Just as the domineering individuality of Pope — " Made poetry a mere mechanic art, And every warbler has his tune by heart," so, in the region of pastoral, the fascinating individuality of Theocritus became a standing danger... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1899 - 141 pages
...develop the love of nature, protested against the influence of Pope. Cowper complains that he •* Made poetry a mere mechanic art, And every warbler has his tune by heart." Wordsworth said that in description Pope never had his eye upon his subject. In Sleep and Poetry Keats... | |
 | R. McWilliam - 1900 - 834 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 had his tune by heart. Nature imparting her satiric gift, Her serious mirth to Arbuthnot and Swift... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1901 - 654 pages
...trampled on their lawfc But he (his musical finesse was such, So nice hh ear, so delicate his touch) Ffa Made poetry a mere mechanic 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... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1902 - 810 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. — COWPER, WILLIAM, 1782, Table Talk. Pope's works are superabundant with superfluous and unmeaning... | |
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