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" What woful stuff this madrigal would be In some starved hackney sonneteer or me ! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens ! how the style refines ! Before his sacred name flies every fault, And each exalted stanza teems with thought. "
Solitude: - Page 35
by Johann Georg Zimmermann - 1804 - 330 pages
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Poetical Miscellanies: Consisting of Original Poems and Translations

1714 - 528 pages
...Nonfenfe foi- my Lord. What woful Stuff this Madrigal would be, In fome ftarv'd Hackney-Sonneteer, or me ? But let a Lord once own the happy Lines, How the Wit brightens ! How. the Style refines ! Before his ficred Name flies ev'iy Fault ; Arid each exalted -Stanza teems with Thought....
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The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1717 - 468 pages
...nonfenfe for my Lord. What wofiil ftuff this madrigal would be, --' In fome ftarv'd hackny Sonneteer, or me? But let a Lord once own the happy lines, How...wit brightens ! how the ftyle refines ! ; Before his facred'name flies ev'ry fault, And each exalted Stanza teems with thought ! The Vulgar thus through...
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Miscellaneous Poems and Translations: By Several Hands. Particularly, I ...

1720 - 302 pages
...for my Lord. What woful fluff this madrigal -would i«. In fome Itarv'd hackny fonneteer, or me ? Bat let a Lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens!...how the ftyle refines! Before his facred name flies ev'ry fault, t,2iK ' And each exalted Mania teems with thought! The vulgar thus through imitation err;...
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Miscellaneous Poems and Translations, Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1722 - 294 pages
...carry nonfenfe for my Lord. What woeful fluff this madrigal would be, In fome ftarv'd hackny fonneteer, or me? But let a Lord once own the happy lines, How...how the ftyle refines ! Before his facred name flies ev'ry fault, And each exalted ftanza teems with thought I The vulgar thus through imitation err; As...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: Juvenile poems

Alexander Pope - 1751 - 236 pages
...critic at the great man's board, To fetch and carry nonfenfe for my Lord. ' * What woful fluff this madrigal would be, In fome ftarv'd hackney fonnetteer, or me ? But let a Lord once own the happy lines, 420 How the wit brightens ! how the ftyle refines ! Before VER-4O2. Which from tin fir ft, etc.] Genius...
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The Works of Alexander Pope Esq, Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1751 - 240 pages
...board, To fetch and carry nonfenfe for my Lord. What woful fluff this madrigal would be, In fome ftarvM hackney fonnetteer, or me ? But let a Lord once own the happy lines, 420 How the wit brightens ! how the ftyle refines ! Before VER. 402. Which from tie fir ft, etc.] Genius...
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Poems on Several Occasions

Christopher Smart - 1752 - 264 pages
...nonfenfe for my lord. 420; What woful ftuff this madrigal wouM be, In fome ftarved hackney fonneteer, or me ? But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens, how the ftyle refines! Before De ARTE CRITICA. 69 Scilicet, inque malam rem caetera turba jubentur. Fruftra autem immenfis cupiunt...
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An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, Volume 1

Joseph Warton - 1756 - 348 pages
...owing to his rank. In reading his poems, one is apt to exclaim with our author, What woful fluff this madrigal would be, In fome ftarv'd hackney fonnetteer...lines, How the wit brightens ! how the ftyle refines F Before his facred name flies every fault, And each exalted ftanaa teems with thought. THE beft part...
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An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ...

Joseph Warton - 1762 - 362 pages
...owing to his rank. In reading his poems, one is apt to exclaim with our author, What woful fluff this madrigal would be, In fome ftarv'd hackney fonnetteer...ftyle refines ! Before his facred name flies every fault, And each exalted flanza teems with thought. Bb 2 THE 196 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS THE beft part of...
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A new and general biographical dictionary, Volume 10

New and general biographical dictionary - 1762 - 544 pages
...claim with our author, " What woful fluff this Madrigal would be, " In fome ftarv'd hackney fonneteer, or me ? " But let a lord once own the happy lines, " How the wit brightens, how the ftile refines ! Catalogue of " It is certain, fays the other, that his grace's compofitions ia N°bfAd...
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