 | John Keats - 1906 - 592 Seiten
...wretched rule And compass vile: so that ye taught a school Of dolts to smooth, inlay, and clip, and fit, Till, like the certain wands of Jacob's wit, Their...the task : A thousand handicraftsmen wore the mask 200 Of Poesy. Ill-fated, impious race ! That blasphemed the bright Lyrist to his face, And did not... | |
 | William Morton Payne - 1907 - 404 Seiten
...wretched rule And compass vile: so that ye taught a school Of dolts to smoothe, inlay, and clip, and fit, Till, like the certain wands of Jacob's wit, Their...know it, — no, they went about, Holding a poor, decrepid standard out Marked with most flimsy mottos, and in large The name of one Boileau!" This passage,... | |
 | Nicolas Boileau Despréaux - 1907 - 152 Seiten
...wretched rule And compass vile ; so that ye taught a school Of dolts to smooth, inlay, and clip, and fit, Till, like the certain wands of Jacob's wit, Their...blasphemed the bright Lyrist to his face, And did not know it,—no, they went about, Holding a poor, decrepit standard out, Mark'd with most flimsy mottoes,... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Sir Stanley Mordaunt Leathes - 1907 - 988 Seiten
...by foppery and barbarism. 723 ["hey thought of poets like Pope, and novelists like Fielding, as an ill-fated, impious race, That blasphemed the bright lyrist to his face, And did not know it. Bred in the exciting atmosphere of the French Revolutionary era, hey turned with sympathy to the writings... | |
 | Sir William Robertson Nicoll, Thomas Seccombe - 1907 - 482 Seiten
...collected still to make The morning precious : beauty was awake ! Why were ye not awake? . . . — No, they went about, Holding a poor, decrepit standard out Mark'd with most flimsy mottoes, and in large The name of one Bolleau ! In March, 1817, was published the little volume, "... | |
 | 1907 - 982 Seiten
...barbarism. They thought of poets like Pope, and novelists like Fielding, as an ill-fated, impious rare, That blasphemed the bright lyrist to his face, And did not know it. Bred in the exciting atmosphere of the French Revolutionary era, they turned with sympathy to the writings... | |
 | George Paston - 1909 - 430 Seiten
...wretched rule And compass vile : so that ye taught a school Of dolts to smoothe, inlay, and clip and fit, Till, like the certain wands of Jacob's wit, Their...not know it, — no, they went about, Holding a poor decrepid standard out Marked with most flimsy mottoes, and in large The name of one Boileau. The acute... | |
 | George Paston - 1909 - 420 Seiten
...wretched rule And compass vile: so that ye taught a school Of dolts to smoothe, inlay, and clip and fit, Till, like the certain wands of Jacob's wit, Their...blasphemed the bright lyrist to his face, And did not know it,—no, they went about, Holding a poor decrepid standard out Marked with most flimsy mottoes, and... | |
 | Laurie Magnus - 1909 - 440 Seiten
...' in vain. ' Beauty was awake ', he declaimed, but ' ye were dead to things ye knew not of ' : • Easy -was the task; A thousand handicraftsmen wore...know it, — no, they went about, Holding a poor, decrepid standard out Mark'd with most flimsy mottos, and in large The name of one Boileau ! Boileau... | |
 | Charles F. Johnson - 1909 - 412 Seiten
...wretched rule And compass vile ! so that ye taught a school Of dolts to smooth, inlay, and clip, and fit, Till like the certain wands of Jacob's wit Their verses...A thousand handicraftsmen wore the mask Of Poesy. But at the very time this was written the critical Reviews were in the hands of the conservatives.... | |
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And compass vile; so that ye taught a school Of dolts to smooth, inlay, and clip, and fit, Till, like the certain wands of Jacob's wit, Their verses tallied. Easy was the task: A thousand handicraftsmen wore the mask Of Poesy. 
