 ... 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
 | Henry Houston Bonnell - 1902 - 486 pages
...to criticise Pope (in whom was gathered up the quintessence of the formal) on the ground that he — Made poetry a mere mechanic art, And every warbler has his tune by heart. Guided by the same standard of judgment as Addison, Pope thought Dryden the greatest because the smoothest... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1903 - 488 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 582 pages
...flflte.' VOLTAIRE, (Euvres, xxiv. 134. ' 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, Works, viii. 141. In a letter Cowper says : — ' Unless we could imitate Pope in the closeness... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1905 - 502 pages
...Poetry, says of him, in his Table Talk, that He (his musical finesse was such, So nice his ear, so delicate his touch) Made poetry a mere mechanic art, And every warbler has the tune by heart. How wide of the mark this judgment is may be inferred from the names of the five... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1906 - 628 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... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 616 pages
...on the fools that trampled on tbeir 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 bis tune by heart. — COWPER, WILLIAM, 1782, Table Talk. Pope's works are superabundant with superfluous... | |
 | Rudolf Kahn - 1910 - 144 pages
...folgende Stelle in „Table Talk" (1782): „He (his musical finesse was such, So nice his ear, so delicate his touch), Made poetry a mere mechanic art, And every warbler has the tune by heart" enthält bereits ein äusserst scharfes Urteil über Popes Dichtungsweise. Jedoch... | |
 | Anna Sheldon Camp Sneath - 1912 - 302 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. — WILLIAM COWPER TO MR. POPE To move the springs of nature as we please, To think with spirit, but... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1914 - 552 pages
...a higher level is his criticism of Pope : 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 himself had the tune by heart, no doubt ; but he did not sing it Using the heroic couplet throughout... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1914 - 606 pages
...a, higher level is his criticism of Pope: 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 himself had the tune by heart, no doubt; but he did not sing it. Using the heroic couplet throughout... | |
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