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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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The Task, Table Talk, and Other Poems: With Critical Observations of Various ...

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...
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Principles of Elocution

Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 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 ; 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 British Controversialist and Literary Magazine, Volume 1

1864 - 494 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...
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The Poems of William Cowper ...

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 ; 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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A Compendious History of English Literature, and of the English ..., Volume 2

George Lillie Craik - English language - 1861 - 580 pages
...or irregular one. If his verse be not so highly polished as 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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English Translations from Homer

David Georg Penon - 1861 - 90 pages
...versificandi ¿fatal facility" fuerunt, qui reprehenderent. Sic Cowperus, „Pope," inquit, „has Made poetry a mere mechanic art And every warbler has his tune by heart." I'riusquam nutcm hunc poetam rclinquimus, nfferam liceat locum ex Itoberti Chambers!! „Cyclopaedia...
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A manual of English literature and of the history of the English language ...

George Lillie Craik - English language - 1862 - 578 pages
...or irregular one. If his verse be not so highly polished as 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 Afternoon Lectures on English Literature, Delivered in the Theatre of ...

Robert Henry Martley, Richard Denny Urlin - English literature - 1863 - 304 pages
...mere mechanifm to which poetry had been reduced, afcribes it to an abufe of Pope's example : — " But he (his mufical finefle was fuch, So nice his...Made poetry a mere mechanic art, And every warbler had his tune by heart." But there were parts of the kingdom to which the laws of the correft fchool...
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The Afternoon Lectures on English Literature Delivered in Dublin in May and ...

1863 - 276 pages
...mere mechanifm to which poetry had been reduced, afcribes it to an abufe of Pope's example : — . " But he (his mufical finefle was fuch, So nice his...Made poetry a mere mechanic art, And every warbler had his tune by heart." But there were parts of the kingdom to which the laws of the corredl fchool...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope, with a life, by A. Dyce, Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1863 - 348 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 WBITTEN IN BLANK VERSE, AND INTITLED BRUTUS,...
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