 Art she had none, yet wanted none, For Nature did that Want supply: So rich in Treasures of her Own, She might our boasted Stores defy: Such Noble Vigour did her Verse adorn, That it seem'd borrow'd, where 'twas only born.  Specimens of the British Poets ... - Page 216by British poets - 1809Full view - About this book
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...not share this quarrel. He uses it two or three times in his poems, as a formal piece of classicism. Art she had none, yet wanted none, For Nature did that Want supply. But it is outside his thought, and is hardly glanced at in his essays. This is striking, in a writer... | |
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