 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 632 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... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 638 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... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English literature - 1880 - 182 pages
...compact, he condemns his devotion to form : 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 time by heart. In reading Pope, we are impressed by the wonderful subjection of the idea to the exactions... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 638 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... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1881 - 626 pages
...trampled on their laws. But he (his musical finesse was such, So nice his ear, so delicate his touch) tfa 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... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1882 - 1108 pages
...compact,' he condemns his devotion to form: 'But he, his musical finesse was such, So nice his ear, so delicate his touch, Made poetry a mere mechanic art. And every warbler 1ms hi* time by heart.' In reading Pope, we are impressed by the wonderful subjection of the idea to... | |
 | William Cowper (the Poet.) - 1883 - 294 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... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1883 - 586 pages
...compact,' he condemns his devotion to form: '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 time by heart.' In reading Pope, we are impressed by the wonderful subjection of the idea to the exactions... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1885 - 530 pages
...influence of Pope. He says of Pope, — . But he (his mnsical 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 did not make Pope a model, but a beacon. Pope was always more or less artificial ; Cowper, in his earnest... | |
 | Archaeology - 1882 - 392 pages
...models are scanty, the result is like that which Cowper described in the followers of Pope, who ' ' Made poetry a mere mechanic art, And every warbler has his tune by heart." till the original character of both was lost. A single successful poem would form the nucleus of a... | |
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