 What woful stuff this madrigal would be In some starved hackney sonneteer or me ! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens ! how the style refines ! Before his sacred name flies every fault, And each exalted stanza teems with thought.  An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope - Page 202by Joseph Warton - 1772 - 495 pagesFull view - About this book
 | English poetry - 1714 - 528 pages
...Nonfenfe foi- my Lord. What woful Stuff this Madrigal would be, In fome ftarv'd Hackney-Sonneteer, or me ? But let a Lord once own the happy Lines, How the Wit brightens ! How. the Style refines ! Before his ficred Name flies ev'iy Fault ; Arid each exalted -Stanza teems with Thought.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Criticism - 1717 - 468 pages
...nonfenfe for my Lord. What wofiil ftuff this madrigal would be, --' In fome ftarv'd hackny Sonneteer, or me? But let a Lord once own the happy lines, How...wit brightens ! how the ftyle refines ! ; Before his facred'name flies ev'ry fault, And each exalted Stanza teems with thought ! The Vulgar thus through... | |
 | English poetry - 1720 - 302 pages
...for my Lord. What woful fluff this madrigal -would i«. In fome Itarv'd hackny fonneteer, or me ? Bat let a Lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens!...how the ftyle refines! Before his facred name flies ev'ry fault, t,2iK ' And each exalted Mania teems with thought! The vulgar thus through imitation err;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1722 - 294 pages
...carry nonfenfe for my Lord. What woeful fluff this madrigal would be, In fome ftarv'd hackny fonneteer, or me? But let a Lord once own the happy lines, How...how the ftyle refines ! Before his facred name flies ev'ry fault, And each exalted ftanza teems with thought I The vulgar thus through imitation err; As... | |
 | Christopher Smart - English poetry - 1752 - 264 pages
...nonfenfe for my lord. 420; What woful ftuff this madrigal wouM be, In fome ftarved hackney fonneteer, or me ? But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens, how the ftyle refines! Before De ARTE CRITICA. 69 Scilicet, inque malam rem caetera turba jubentur. Fruftra autem immenfis cupiunt... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1756 - 348 pages
...exclaim with our author, What woful fluff this madrigal would be, In fome ftarv'd hackney fonnetteer or me ? But let a LORD ONCE OWN the happy lines, How the wit brightens ! how the ftyle refines F Before his facred name flies every fault, And each exalted ftanaa teems with thought. THE beft part... | |
 | New and general biographical dictionary - 1762 - 544 pages
...claim with our author, " What woful fluff this Madrigal would be, " In fome ftarv'd hackney fonneteer, or me ? " But let a lord once own the happy lines, " How the wit brightens, how the ftile refines ! Catalogue of " It is certain, fays the other, that his grace's compofitions ia N°bfAd... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1770 - 378 pages
...madrigal would be, In fome flarv'd hackney-fonneteer, or me? Bat let a Lord once own the happy lines, 420 'How the wit brightens ! how the ftyle refines ( Before his facred name flies ev'ry fault, And each exalted iianza teems with thought ! The vulgar thus thro' imitation err ; As... | |
 | Books - 1773 - 614 pages
...fame. IV. Tranflation from Dante, Canto xxxiii. By the Earl of Carlifle. 410. 1 3. Ridley. 1773. " Let a Lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens ! how the iiyle refines !" So fays Pope ; but though we are always glad to find men of faftion cultivating the... | |
 | SEVERAL HANDS - 1773 - 620 pages
...fame. IV. Tranflation from Dante, Canto . \xxiii. By the Earl of Carlifle. 410. 19. Ridley. 1773. " Let a Lord once own the happy lines. How the wit brightens ! how the flyle refines !" So fays Pope ; but though we are always glad to find men of fafiiion cultivating the... | |
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