 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1854 - 472 pages
...seldom attained it; for he is too frequently driven into transpositions." — Joiixsox: Idler, No. 77. " Who now reads Cowley? If he pleases yet, His moral...Pindaric art; But still I love the language of his heart. POPE : Epistle to Augustus. In all our comparisons of taste, I do not know whether I have ever heard... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 pages
...too frequently driven into transpositions." — JOHNSON : Idler, No. 77. 47 Who now reads Cowley t If he pleases yet, His moral pleases, not his pointed...Pindaric art; But still I love the language of his heart. POPE : Epistle to Augustas. In all our comparisons of taste, I do not know whether I have ever heard... | |
 | Cheshire (England) - 1855 - 712 pages
...once been awarded to Cowley ; and thus it happened that in the very next generation Pope could ask : " Who now reads Cowley ? If he pleases yet, His moral...art, But still I love the language of his heart." Thus neglected, he passed away from public notice. Few persons read him : the popular impression was... | |
 | Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire - Cheshire (England) - 1855 - 374 pages
...once been awarded to Cowley ; and thus it happened that in the very next generation Pope could ask : " Who now reads Cowley ? If he pleases yet, His moral...pointed wit : Forgot his epic, nay, Pindaric art, Bat still I love the language of his heart." Thus neglected, he passed away from public notice. Few... | |
 | Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire - Cheshire (England) - 1855 - 386 pages
...once been awarded to Cowley ; and thus it happened that in the very next generation Pope could ask : " Who now reads Cowley ? If he pleases yet, His moral pleases, not Ms pointed wit : Forgot his epic, nay, Pindaric art, But still I love the language of his heart." Thus... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 512 pages
...measure merits, look in Stowe, And estimating authors by the year, Bestow a garland only on a bier. Forgot his epic, nay, Pindaric art ; But still I love...surely, these were famous men ! What boy but hears te sayings of old Ben? In all debates, where critics bear a part, Not one but nods, and talks of J... | |
 | William Cowper - 1856 - 464 pages
...night by cattle put in by his neighbors." The character of his genius is well expressed by Pope : " 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.1' Cowper has also... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1856 - 590 pages
...David. The peculiar character of his genius is happily expressed by Pope in the following lines : — 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. Cowley's ' Love Poems'... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 574 pages
...pleasing picture of his abilities and of his heart, and justify the well-known lines of Pope : — Who now reads Cowley ! If he pleases yet, His moral pleases, not his pointed wit ; Forgot his epie, nay Pindaric art, But still I love the language of his heart. The testimony of Campbell to the... | |
 | William Cowper, James Robert Boyd - 1857 - 476 pages
...every night by cattle put in by his neighbors." The character of his genius is well expressed by Pope : "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." Cowper has also drawn... | |
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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. 
