 | Alexander Pope - Catholics - 1906 - 198 pages
...ways: 335 That Flatt'ry, ev'n to Kings, he held a shame, And thought a Lie in verse or prose the same. That not in Fancy's maze he wander'd long, But stoop'd to Truth, and moraliz'd his song: That not for Fame, but Virtue's better end, 340 He stood the furious foe, the timid friend, The damning... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - English poetry - 1909 - 892 pages
...ways: That Flatt'ry, ev'n to Kings, he held a shame, And thought a Lie in verse or prose the same. That not in Fancy's maze he wander'd long, But stoop'd to Truth, and mortaliz'd his song; That not for Fame, but Virtue's better end, He stood the furious foe, the timid... | |
 | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - Aesthetics - 1914 - 260 pages
...banquet consisting of nothing but sauces.6 On Von s De Art. Poet. 16. * Prologue to the Satires, v. 340 :— " That not in Fancy's maze he wander*d long,...stoop'd to Truth, and moraliz'd his song." Ibid. v. 147. . " Who could take offence, • While pure Description held the place of Sense ? " Warbui ton's... | |
 | Lucius Hudson Holt - English poetry - 1915 - 956 pages
...ways: That flatt'ry ev'n to Kings, he held a shame, And thought a lie in verse or prose the same; J39 2 moralized his song; That not for Fame, but Virtue's better end, He stood the furious foe, the timid... | |
 | Society for Pure English - Philosophy, English - 1919 - 716 pages
...condemned as Gothic, unnatural, ridiculous, and childish. We can therefore understand Pope's boast : That not in Fancy's maze he wander'd long, But stoop'd to Truth, and moraliz'd his song.' This theory of poetry was logical, consistent, and worthy of serious and judicious men, who, weary... | |
 | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - 1893 - 430 pages
...©mpfinbungen nur d) De AP v. 16. 20 «) Prologue to the Satires, v. 340. That not in Fancy's maze he wauder'd long But stoop'd to Truth, and moraliz'd his song. Ibid. v. 148. — — — — w)jo could take offence, 25 While pure Description held the place of Sense? îie Slnmevfnng... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - English language - 1925 - 324 pages
...condemned as Gothic, unnatural, ridiculous and childish. We can therefore understand Pope's boast : That not in Fancy's maze he wander'd long, But stoop'd to Truth, and moraliz'd his song.3 1 Essays of John Dryden (Ker), vol. ip 229. 2 It is perhaps more than a coincidence that in... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - English language - 1925 - 320 pages
...condemned as Gothic, unnatural, ridiculous and childish. We can therefore understand Pope's boast : That not in Fancy's maze he wander'd long, But stoop'd to Truth, and moraliz'd his song.3 1 Essays of John Dryden (Ker), vol. ip 229. * It is perhaps more than a coincidence that in... | |
 | Jacob Johan van Rennes - 1927 - 186 pages
...idea of the dignity of his order of poetry, to which he has partly contributed by the ingenuous boast, That not in Fancy's maze he wander'd long, But stoop'd to Truth, and moraliz'd his song. He should have written 'rose to truth'. In my mind the highest of all poetry is ethical poetry, as... | |
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