| John Keats - 1873 - 402 sidor
...wretched rule And 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...poor, decrepit standard out, Mark'd with most flimsy mottoes, and in large The name of one Boileau ! O ye whose charge It is to hover round our pleasant... | |
| David Masson - 1874 - 338 sidor
...wretched rale And compass vile ; so that ye taught a school Of dolts to smoothe, inlay, and clip and fit, Till, like the certain wands of Jacob's wit, Their...poor decrepit standard out, Mark'd with most flimsy mottoes, and, in large, The name of one Boileau ! " Keats, then, was a Pre-Drydenist in his notions... | |
| John Keats - 1874 - 320 sidor
...wretched rule And 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...went about, Holding a poor, decrepit standard out, Marked with most flimsy mottoes, and in large The name of one Boileau !* O ye whose charge It is to... | |
| Louise Haussonville (comtesse d') - 1874 - 296 sidor
...wands of Jacob's wit, ï'/tei/' venes tallied. Easy tuas the task : A thuusund handieraftsmen vvore the mask Of poesy. Ill-fated, impious race, That blasphemed...did not know it; no, they went about Holding a poor décrepit standard out Mark'd with most flimsy mottos, and in large The name of one Boileau ! » A... | |
| 1892 - 568 sidor
...smoothe, inlay, and clip, and fit, Till, like the certain wands of Jacob's wit, Their verses tall1ed. Easy was the task : A thousand handicraftsmen wore...poor, decrepit standard out, Mark'd with most flimsy mottoes, and in large The name of one Boileau ! ' A declaration such as this gave an easy handle to... | |
| John Keats - 1883 - 302 sidor
...wretched rule And 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...poor, decrepit standard out, Mark'd with most flimsy mottoes, and in large The name of one Boileau ! O ye whose charge It is to hover round our pleasant... | |
| John Keats - 1883 - 442 sidor
...rule 195 And 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...the task : A thousand handicraftsmen wore the mask 200 Of Poesy. Ill-fated, impious race ! That blasphem'd the bright Lyrist to his face, And did not... | |
| John Keats - 1883 - 440 sidor
...rule 195 And 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...the task : A thousand handicraftsmen wore the mask 200 Of Poesy. Ill-fated, impious race ! That blasphem'd the bright Lyrist to his face, And did not... | |
| John Keats - 1883 - 446 sidor
...task : A thousand handicraftsmen wore the mask 200 Of Poesy. Ill-fated, impious race ! That blasphem'd the bright Lyrist to his face, And did not know it, — no, they went about, Holding a poor, decrepid standard out Mark'd with most flimsy mottos, and in large 205 The name of one Boileau ! O... | |
| Edmund Gosse - 1885 - 266 sidor
...wretched rule And 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...poor, decrepit standard out, Mark'd with most flimsy mottoes, and in large The name of one Boileau ! " * In these lines Keats has so admirably summed up... | |
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