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" ... 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... "
The Life and Posthumous Writings of William Cowper: With an Introductory ... - Page 216
by William Hayley - 1803
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A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art ..., Volume 9

Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 820 pages
...observance of the times and fashions. Sun/}. But he (his musical ßneae 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. FIN ET (Sir John), an English writer, descended from an ancient family of Italy, was born near Dover...
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The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of ..., Part 1, Volume 9

Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 462 pages
...observance of the times and fashions. Swift. But he (his musical Jtneae was such, So nice his ear, to delicate his touch.) Made poetry a mere mechanic art , And every warbler has his tune by heart. Coivpcr, FINET (Sir John), an English writer, descended from an ancient family of Italy, was bom near...
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The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art ..., Volume 9

Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 794 pages
...fashions. Swift. Rut he (Jiis musical linfsr was such. So nice his ear, so delicate his touch ) Mau> poetry a mere mechanic art ; And every warbler has his tune by ht-art. Cowpfr. FINET (Sir John), an Knglish writer, descended from an ancient family of Italy, was...
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The Poetical Works of William Cowper, Volume 1

William Cowper - English poetry - 1830 - 374 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. Nature imparting her satiric gift, Her serious mirth, to Arbuthnot and Swift, With droll sobriety they...
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The Works of Cowper and Thomson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never ...

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; And every warbler has his tune by heart. Nature imparting her satiric gift, Her serious mirth, to Arbuthnot and Swift, With droll sobriety they...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 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,...
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The Works of William Cowper: His Life and Letters, Volume 6

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 ; And every warbler has his tune by heart. Nature imparting her satiric gift, Her serious mirth, to Arbuthnot and Swift, With droll sobriety they...
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Miscellaneous poems. Olney hymns. Anti-Thelyphthora. Table talk and other ...

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, And every warbler has his tune by heart. Nature imparting her satiric gift, Her serious mirth, to Arbuthnot and Swift, With droll sobriety they...
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Sketches of the History of Literature and Learning in England ..., Volumes 5-6

George Lillie Craik - English language - 1845 - 486 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...
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The Churchman's companion

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...
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