 | 1892 - 954 sidor
...century versifiers as an " Ill-fated, impious race, That blasphemed the bright Lyrist [Apollo himself] to his face, And did not know it. No, they went about,...poor decrepit standard out, Mark'd with most flimsy mottoes, and in large The name of one Boileau ! " Among the most wonderful phenomena of literary history... | |
 | Lady Strachey (Jane Maria) - 1894 - 376 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...blasphemed the bright Lyrist to his face, And did not know it,—no, they went about, Holding a poor decrepit standard out, Mark'd with most flimsy mottoes, and... | |
 | John Morley - 1894 - 702 sidor
...vile ; so that ye taught a school Of dolts to smooth, inlay, and clip, and fit, Till, like the certnin wands of Jacob's wit, Their verses tallied. Easy was...impious race ! 'That blasphemed the bright Lyrist to liis face, And did not know it — no, they went about, Holding a poor, decrepit standard out, Mark'd... | |
 | 1894 - 706 sidor
...dolts to smooth, inlay, and clip, and fit, Till, like the certain wands of Jacob's wit., Their rones tallied. Easy was the task : A thousand handicraftsmen wore the mask Of Poesy. Hi-fated, impious race ! That blasphemed the bright Lyrist to his face, And did not know it,—no,... | |
 | John Keats - 1896 - 348 sidor
...Jacob's wit, Their verses tallied. Easy was the task : A thousand handicraftsmen wore the mask 200 Of Poesy. Ill-fated, impious race ! That blasphemed...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... | |
 | John Keats - 1896 - 338 sidor
...rule '95 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 blasphemed the bright Lyrist to his face, And did not... | |
 | John Keats - 1896 - 348 sidor
...rule '95 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 20o Of Poesy. Ill-fated, impious race ! That blasphemed the bright Lyrist to his face, And did not... | |
 | John Keats - 1896 - 350 sidor
...rule '95 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 blasphemed the bright Lyrist to his face, And did not... | |
 | John Milton - 1898 - 358 sidor
...school Of dolts to smooth, inlay, and clip, and fit, Till, like the certain wands of Jacob's wit They tallied. Easy was the task : A thousand handicraftsmen wore the mask Of Poesy." Charles was heir not only to his father's failings, but to all the mischief which those failings had... | |
 | John Milton - 1898 - 334 sidor
...antic lisping, affecting fantasticoes, these new tuners of accents." —Borneo and Juliet, ii. 4. " Easy was the task: A thousand handicraftsmen wore the mask Of Poesy." — KEATS, Sleep and Poetry. 29-46. Yet I had rather, etc. This very noble passage, in form and content,... | |
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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 verses tallied. Easy was the task: A thousand handicraftsmen wore the mask Of Poesy. 
