 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 752 pages
...are correct; but Pope was, in this respect, exempted from the common lot of authors of that class. With the unwearied application of a plodding Flemish...almost peculiar to himself. His faults are numberless, but so are his beauties. His faults are those of a great man, and his beauties are such (at least sometimes)... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 pages
...are correct ; but Pope was, in this respect, exempted from the common lot of authors of that class. With the unwearied application of a plodding Flemish...almost peculiar to himself. His faults are numberless, but so are his beauties. His faults are those of a great man, and his beauties are such (at least sometimes)... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 pages
...are correct; but Pope was, in this respect, exempted from the common lot of authors of that class. With the unwearied application of a plodding Flemish...almost peculiar to himself. His faults are numberless, but so are his beauties. His faults are those of a great man, and his beauties are such (at least sometimes)... | |
 | William Cowper - 1912 - 520 pages
...are correct ; but Pope was, in this respect, exempted from the common lot of authors of that class. With the unwearied application of a plodding Flemish...almost peculiar to himself. His faults are numberless, but so are his beauties. His faults are those of a great man, and his beauties are such, (at least... | |
 | Marjorie Latta Barstow Greenbie - 1917 - 222 pages
...application of a plodding Flemish painter, who draws a shrimp with the most minute exactness,' says Cowper,2 'he had all the genius of one of the first masters....believe, were such talents and such drudgery united.' He found as much pleasure in correcting as in writmore like Wordsworth : 'I have often found by experience... | |
 | 1917 - 220 pages
...neither spared the file nor shunned the flames that Horace so mercilessly recommends to young writers. 'With the unwearied application of a plodding Flemish...who draws a shrimp with the most minute exactness,' says Cowper,2 'he had all the genius of one of the first masters. Never, I believe, were such talents... | |
 | Sarah Jordan - 2003 - 308 pages
...too hard. For instance, in a letter to William Unwin he ranks Dryden's poetry above Pope's, saying, "I admire Dryden most, who has succeeded by mere dint of Genius, and in spite of a laziness and a carelessness almost peculiar to himself," while Pope "was certainly a mechanical maker of verses,... | |
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With the unwearied application of a plodding Flemish painter, who draws a shrimp with the most minute exactness, he had all the genius of one of the first masters. Never, I believe, were such talents and such drudgery united. 
