 The morning precious: beauty was awake! Why were ye not awake? But ye were dead To things ye knew not of, — were closely wed To musty laws lined out with wretched rule And compass vile: so that ye taught a school Of dolts to smooth, inlay, and clip,...  English Literary Miscellany: Series 1-2 - Página 197por Theodore Whitefield Hunt - 1914Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Charles Frederick Johnson - 1904 - 370 páginas
...the couplets of the imitators of Pope as " swaying about upon a rocking-horse " and says that they Were closely wed To musty laws lined out with wretched rule And compass vile. Coleridge and Wordsworth led the revolt against the decasyllabic couplet used in the old manner, and... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1922 - 548 páginas
...volume of a young person learning to write poetry, and beginning by teaching the art. Hear him * — " ' But ye were dead To things ye knew not of — were closely wed 1. The Friends : a Poem. In Four Books. By the Rev. Francis Hodgson, AM (1SlS). (See p. 303, note I.)... | |
 | Andrew Lang - 1907 - 584 páginas
...Bared its eternal bosom and the dew Of summer nights collected still to make The morning precious : beauty was awake ! Why were ye not awake ? But ye were dead To things ye knew not of, however it may apply to the poetry typical of the Augustan Age, most certainly does not apply to the... | |
 | Nicolas Boileau Despréaux - 1907 - 152 páginas
...Bared its eternal bosom, and the dew Of summer night collected still to make The morning precious: Beauty was awake! Why were ye not awake? But ye were dead To things ye knew not of,—were closely wed To musty laws lined out with wretched rule And compass vile ; so that ye taught... | |
 | Abby Willis Howes - 1909 - 238 páginas
...of Nature, and for their following of fixed rules. He says to them : — "... beauty was awake ! _ Why were ye not awake ? But ye were dead To things...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."... | |
 | Charles F. Johnson - 1909 - 418 páginas
...force They swayed about upon a rocking horse And thought it Pegasus. But ye were dead To things ye know not of — were closely wed To musty laws, lined out...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.... | |
 | George Paston - 1909 - 420 páginas
...Bared its eternal bosom, and the devr Of summer nights collected still to make The morning precious : beauty was awake ! Why were ye not awake ? But ye were dead To things ye knew not of—were closely wed To musty laws lined out with wretched rule And compass vile: so that ye taught... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - 1910 - 968 páginas
...Bared its eternal bosom, and the dew Of summer nights collected still to make The morning precious : fore thy hand they touch, I know that they must wither'd be, smooth, inlay, and clip, and fit. Till, like the certain wands of Jacob's Their verses tallied. Easy... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1910 - 526 páginas
...Bared its eternal bosom, and the dew Of summer nights collected still to make The summer precious : beauty was awake ! Why were ye not awake ? But ye...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.... | |
 | 1912 - 396 páginas
...Bar'd its eternal bosom, and the dew Of summer nights collected still to make The morning precious; beauty was awake! Why were ye not awake ? But ye were...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.... | |
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