 | John Dennis - Poets, English - 1883 - 424 pages
...Westminster Abbey. Year by year, however, his fame declined, and seventy years later Pope exclaimed — "Who now reads Cowley? If he pleases yet, His moral pleases, not his pointed wit." We may safely say that few readers in our daygain pleasure either from his wit or his moral. This descent... | |
 | John Dennis - Poets, English - 1883 - 426 pages
...Westminster Abbey. Year by year, however, his fame declined, and seventy years later Pope exclaimed — " Who now reads Cowley ? If he pleases yet, His moral pleases, not his pointed wit." We may safely say that few readers in our day gain pleasure either from his wit or his moral. This... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1884 - 450 pages
...reads Cowley ? " was the question asked by Alexander Pope seventy years after Abraham Cowley died — " Who now reads Cowley ? if he pleases yet, His moral...art, But still I love the language of his heart." And yet even after Pope's time there were a few who still read the elder poet. Among them was Cowper,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American literature - 1884 - 454 pages
...reads Cowley ? " was the question asked by Alexander Pope seventy years after Abraham Cowley died — " Who now reads Cowley ? if he pleases yet, His moral...art, But still I love the language of his heart." And yet even after Pope's time there were a few who still read the elder poet. Among them was Cowper,... | |
 | William John Courthope - English literature - 1885 - 272 pages
...style in the four verses in which he sums up the merits of Cowley, a really noble and elevated spirit : Who now reads Cowley ? If he pleases yet, His moral...art ; But still I love the language of his heart. There is the truth of the matter. The poetry of the seventeenth century ' wants heart.'1 Two 1 I am,... | |
 | William Morton Payne - American essays - 1904 - 346 pages
...Who now reads Cowley ? If he pleases yet, His moral pleases, n9t his pointed wit; Forgot his Elic, nay, Pindaric art, But still I love the language of his heart. Yet surely, surely, they were famous men ! What boy but hears the sayings of old Ben? In all debates where critics bear... | |
 | 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... | |
| |
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. 
