 | Laurie Magnus - 1909 - 448 sidor
...bosom ' in vain. ' Beauty was awake ', he declaimed, but ' ye were dead to things ye knew not of ' : Easy was the task ; A thousand handicraftsmen wore the mask Of Poesy. Ill-fated, impious race I That blasphemed the bright Lyrist to his face, And did not know it, — no, they went about, Holding... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1910 - 526 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...not know it, — no, they went about, Holding a poor decrepid standard out, Mark'd with most flimsy mottos, and in large The name of one Boileau ! It is... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - 1910 - 968 sidor
...taught a school Of dolts to smooth, inlay, and clip, and fit. Till, like the certain wands of Jacob's ing ! My whole life long I learned to love. This hour my utmost art I prove And speak my passion inottos, and in large The name of one Boileau ! O ye whose charge It is to hover round our pleasant... | |
 | Alexander Frederick Bruce Clark - 1925 - 570 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 verses tallied. Easy was the task : 1. Memoirs, Journal and Correspondence, v. VII, p. 29. 2. Ibid., v. VII, p. 30. A thousand handicraftsmen... | |
 | Clarence De Witt Thorpe - 1926 - 246 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...not know it, — no, they went about Holding a poor, decrepid standard out Mark'd with most flimsy mottos, and in large The name of one Boileau! (Sleep... | |
 | Clarence De Witt Thorpe - 1926 - 240 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...not know it, — no, they went about Holding a poor, decrepid standard out Mark'd with most flimsy mottos, and in large The name of one Boileau! (Sleep... | |
 | Gerrit Dekker - 1926 - 268 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...handicraftsmen wore the mask Of Poesy. Ill-fated, impious race! Is dit nie die grondtoon van Kloos se mooi eerste kritieke nie? Cornelis Paradijs het gespot met die... | |
 | Jacob Johan van Rennes - 1927 - 186 sidor
...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! (Keats). 86 The circle then, in which this petty war raged was small, and would at any time have been... | |
 | Jacob Johan van Rennes - 1927 - 194 sidor
...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! (Keats). The circle then, in which this petty war raged was small, and would at any time have been... | |
 | Duane Reed Stuart - 1967 - 284 sidor
...quantities of machinemade poetry of his day matched Keats's stricture on eighteenth-century poetasters: Easy was the task: A thousand handicraftsmen wore the mask Of Poesy. But, to the ancient mind in general, the danger was rather that the path of glory might lead not merely... | |
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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. 
