 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1905 - 770 pages
...entirely eclipsed that of Milton. Posterity has reversed this estimate; and we may now ask with Pope: — "Who now reads Cowley? If he pleases yet, His moral...pointed wit; Forgot his epic, nay, Pindaric art." But the neglect into which he has fallen seems not wholly deserved. He was the most popular poet of his... | |
 | William Tuckwell - Poets, Latin - 1905 - 138 pages
...affects us slightly, for of Naevius we know nothing; Pope substitutes awriter known and admired still : Who now reads Cowley? if he pleases yet, His moral pleases, not his pointed wit; Forget his Epic, nay, Pindaric art, But still I love the language of his heart. Horace tells how the... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - English literature - 1906 - 764 pages
...entirely eclipsed that of Milton. Posterity has reversed this estimate; and we may now ask with Pope : — "Who now reads Cowley? If he pleases yet, His moral...pointed wit; Forgot his epic, nay, Pindaric art." But the neglect into which he has fallen seems not wholly deserved. He was the most popular poet of his... | |
 | Sir William Robertson Nicoll, Thomas Seccombe - England - 1907 - 524 pages
...From the Painting by Alexander Nasmyth A HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE CHAPTER VI TBANSiTiONAL POETS "Who now reads Cowley? if he pleases yet His moral...Pindaric art! But still i love the language of his heart" < —'Pope. Cowley — Waller — Marvell — Rochester, Sedley, and Dorset — The Westminster wits... | |
 | Erich Poetzsche - 1907 - 132 pages
...«Harriet's» fur «your bright». 3) Auch Pope hatte 1737 an Cowley in den folgenden Versen erinnert: Who now reads Cowley? If he pleases yet, His moral...Pindaric art, But still I love the language of his heart. been laid under my cushion in our seat, at Church, two Sundays ago, by some unknown hand; The Verses... | |
 | Andrew Lang - English literature - 1907 - 584 pages
...and hear How prettily they talk. We can quite understand what Pope meant when he wrote of Cowley — Who now reads Cowley ? If he pleases yet, His moral...Pindaric art, But still I love the language of his heart. Could Cowley have shaken off the trammels of the metaphysical school and, instead of aspiring to rival... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1907 - 568 pages
...Immortal in his own despite. Ben, old and poor, as little seem'd to heed The Life to come, in ev'ry Poet's Creed. Who now reads Cowley? if he pleases yet, His Moral pleases, not his pointed i&it ; Forget his Epic, nay Pindaric Art3; But still I love the language of his heart4. "Yet surely,... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - English poetry - 1908 - 562 pages
...immortal in his own desp1te. Ben, old and poor, as little seemed to heed 5 The life to come, in ev'ry poet's creed. Who now reads Cowley? if he pleases...Pindaric art, But still I love the language of his heart. 10 "Yet surely, surely, these were famous men ! What boy but hears the sayings of old Ben? In all debates... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - English poetry - 1908 - 562 pages
...immortal in his own despite. Ben, old and poor, as little seemed to heed 5 The life to come, in ev'ry poet's creed. Who now reads Cowley? if he pleases...Pindaric art, But still I love the language of his heart. 10 "Yet surely, surely, these were famous men! What boy but hears the sayings of old Ben? In all debates... | |
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Who now reads Cowley ? if he pleases yet, His moral pleases, not his pointed wit; Forgot his Epic, nay Pindaric art, But still I love the language of his heart. 
