 | John Matthews Manly - English poetry - 1907 - 654 pages
...like a clown in regal purple dressed: For different stjjles with different subjects sort, As several garbs with country, town, and court. Some by old words to fame have made pretence, Ancients in phrase, mere moderns in their sense; Such laboured nothings, in so strange a style, 326 Amaze th' unlearn'd,... | |
 | Edward Chauncey Baldwin, Harry Gilbert Paul - English poetry - 1908 - 430 pages
...like a clown in regal purple dressed : For diff'rent styles with diff'rent subjects sort, As several garbs with country, town, and court. Some by old words to fame have made pretence, Ancients in phrase, mere moderns in their sense ; 125 Such labored nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd,... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - English poetry - 1908 - 562 pages
...like a clown in regal purple dressed; For diff'rent styles with diff'rent subjects sort, As sev'ral garbs with country, town, and court. Some by old words to fame have made pretence, 175 Ancients in phrase, mere moderns in their sense; Such laboured nothings, in so strange a style,... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - English poetry - 1908 - 562 pages
...like a clown in regal purple dressed; For diff'rent styles with diff'rent subjects sort, As sev'ral garbs with country, town, and court. Some by old words to fame have made pretence, 175 Ancients in phrase, mere moderns in their sense; Such laboured nothings, in so strange a style,... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer, Alice Ebba Andrews - English literature - 1910 - 778 pages
...like a clown in regal purple dressed: For different styles with different subjects sort, As several y submission; and that phrase, mere moderns in their sense; Such laboured nothings, in so strange a style, j Amaze th ' unlearn... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon, Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson - English poetry - 1911 - 792 pages
...like a clown in regal purple dress'd : For diff'rent styles with diff'rent subjects sort, As several garbs, with country, town, and court. Some by old words to fame have made pretence, Ancients in phrase, mere moderns in their sense ; Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'... | |
 | English poetry - 1912 - 572 pages
...like a clown in regal purple dress'd: For different styles with different subjects sort, As several garbs with country, town, and court. Some by old words to fame have made pretense, Ancients in phrase, mere moderns in their sense; Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 468 pages
...clown in regal purple dressed : 121 For different styles with different subjects sort,1 As several garbs with country, town, and court. Some by old words to fame have made pretence, Ancients in phrase, mere moderns in their sense; 125 Such labored nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd,... | |
 | English poetry - 1916 - 792 pages
...regal purple dressed : 321 1 always For different styles with different subjects sort, As several t r light, Hangs o'er thy eyes, and blunts thy mortal sight, I will remove . . . When I was at Gr phrase, mere moderns in their sense ; 325 Such laboured nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th'... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1916 - 828 pages
...in regal purple dressed: 321 1 always For different styles with different subjects sort, As several freedom on thy being's height, Why with such earnest pains dost thou provoke The years to bring phrase, mere moderns in their sense ; 3:5 Such laboured nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th'... | |
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... whate'er it shines upon, It gilds all objects, but it alters none. Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent, as more suitable; A vile conceit in pompous words... 
