 | William Cowper, James Robert Boyd - 1857 - 476 sider
...101. Fascination of a name : "What woeful stuff this madrigal would bo, In some starved, Iiackney'd sonneteer, or me! But let a Lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens 1 how the style refines 1" Pope. Essay on Crit. 418. 102. Some {he style, <fec. : • " Others for... | |
 | Dr. Doran (John) - 1857 - 530 sider
...the one — " What woful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved, hackney'd sonneteer, or me I But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens and the style refines !" And thus sung the other — " Toua lea discours sont des sottises, Partout,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 504 sider
...nonsense for my lord. What woful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me I ing to some court's propitious shine, Or dcep with diamonds in the flaming mine ! I Before his sacred name flies every fault, And each exalted stanza teems with thought ! The vulgar... | |
 | Dr. Doran (John) - 1859 - 564 sider
...writes the one — " What woful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved, hackuey'd sonnateer, or me ! But let a lord once own the happy lines. How the wit brightens and the style refines ! " And thus sung the other — " Tous les discours sont des sottises, Partout,... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1860 - 538 sider
...translation of the eleventh epigram of CALLIMACHUS. What woful stuff this madrigal would bo In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own...happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style reflnes! FOPB : Emay on Criticam. MOLIERE has the same sentiment : — Tons Ies discours sont des sortises... | |
 | Henry Boynton Smith, James Manning Sherwood - 1862 - 774 sider
...Pope, under four words, and contrived to introduce twelve faults in the citation. The couplet was : But let a lord once own the happy lines ; How the wit brightens ! how the style refines ! The words under which they are cited are, Brighten, Refine, Style, and Wit. " Aids to Faith" in reply... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 334 sider
...with quality ; A constant critic at the great man's board, To fetch and carry nonsense for my lord. What woful stuff this madrigal would be In some starv'd...sonneteer or me ! But let a lord once own the happy lin>»., How the wit brightens ! how the style refines ! Before his sacred name flies every fault,... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 sider
...Line 80. SONNETTEER.—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 POPE. — On Criticism, Line 418. SORROW. — Affliction may one day smile again, and till then,... | |
 | 1865 - 496 sider
...nonsense tor " My Lord.'' What woeful stuff \}\\* madrigal (48) would he In some starved hackneyed sonneteer — or me ! But let a Lord once own the happy lines, 2£0 How the wit brijzhtcnx ! Mow th« st\le refines! Before his sacred name fti.es every fault. And... | |
 | James Ewing Ritchie - 1866 - 912 sider
...was when Pope wrote — '" What woful stuff this madrigal would be In some starved hackney sonnetter or me ; But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens ! how the style refines 1 Before his sacred name flies every fault, And each exalted stanza teems with thought." .And it is... | |
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In some starv'd 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... 
