 | William Cowper - 1790 - 312 pages
...the the fools that trampl'd on their laws. But he (his mufical finefle was fuch, So nice his ear, fo delicate his touch) Made poetry a mere mechanic art, And every warbler has his tune by heart. Nature imparting her fatyric gift, Her ferious mirth, to Arbuthnot and Swift, With droll fobriety they... | |
 | William Cowper - 1803 - 442 pages
...Lines to which I allude are these : Then Pope, as harmony itself exact, In verse •well-disciplirid, complete, compact,. Gave virtue and morality a grace,...mechanic art, And every" warbler has his tune by heart. Cowper conceived, that Pope, by adhering too closely to fine use of pure Iambic feet in his verse,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1803 - 456 pages
...exaff, In -verse well disciplm'd, complete, compact, Gave virtue and morality a grace, That, quit* eclipsing pleasure's painted face, Levied a tax of...mechanic art, And every warbler has his tune by heart. % Cowper conceived, that Pope, by adhering too closely to the use of pure Iambic feet in his verse,... | |
 | William Hayley - 1803 - 450 pages
...complete^ compact, Gave virtue and morality a grace, That, quite eclipsing pleasure's painted face, Lemcd a tax of wonder and applause, E'en on the fools that...mechanic art, And every warbler has his tune by heart. Cowper conceived, that Pope, by adhering too closely to the use of pure Iambic feet in his verse, deprived... | |
 | William Hayley - 1803 - 452 pages
...of -wonder and applause, E'en on the fools that trampled on their laws : But he (his musical jincsse was such, So nice his ear, so delicate his touch}...mechanic art, And every warbler has his tune by heart. Cowper conceived, that Pope, by adhering too closely to the use of pure Iambic feet in his verse, deprived... | |
 | 1803 - 748 pages
...the tools that trampled on their laws. But he, (his mufical fincfi'c was fuch, So nice his ear, fo delicate his touch) Made poetry a mere mechanic art, And every warbler has his tune by heart. TABLE-TALK. Altho* this palfage (hews that Cowper c>\:\AiK;lure the Imoothnefsand high polifti ot Pope,... | |
 | William Hayley - 1803 - 330 pages
...the fools that trampled on their laws j. But he (his mufical finefle was fuch, So nice his ear, fo delicate his touch) Made poetry a mere mechanic art, And every warbler has his tune by heart. Cowper conceived, that Pope, by adhering too clofely to the ufe of pure Iambic feet in his verfe, deprived... | |
 | William Hayley - 1805 - 222 pages
...painted face, Levied a tax of wonder and applause, E'en on the fools that trampled on their laws : Hut he (his musical finesse was such, So nice his ear,...mechanic art, And every warbler has his tune by heart. Cowper conceived that Pope, by adhering too closely to the use of pure Iambic feet in his verse, deprived... | |
 | William Cowper - 1805 - 362 pages
...on the fools that trampled on thcii laws. But he (his mufical fineffe was fuch, So nice his ear, fo delicate his touch) Made poetry a mere mechanic art; And every warbler has his tune by heart. Nature imparting her fatiric gift, Her ferious mirth, to Arbuthnot and Swift, With droll fobriety they... | |
 | William Cowper - 1805 - 358 pages
...on the fools that trampled on their laws, But he (his mufical fineffe was fuch, So nfce his ear, fo delicate his touch) Made poetry a mere mechanic art ; And every warbler has his tune by heart. Nature imparting her fatiric gift, Her ferious mirth, to Arbuthnot and Swift, With droll fobriety they... | |
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E'en 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. 
