 Till, like the certain wands of Jacob's wit, Their verses tallied. Easy was the task : A thousand handicraftsmen wore the mask Of Poesy. Ill-fated, impious race ! That blasphemed the bright Lyrist to his face, And did not know it, — no, they went about,...  The Atlantic Monthly - Page 6571905Full view - About this book
 | Mary Botham Howitt - 1840 - 554 pages
...hie face, And did not know it, — no, they went about, Holding a poor, decrepit standard out, Mark'd with most flimsy mottoes, and in large The name of one Boileau ! O ye whose charge It is to hover round our pleasant hills ! Whose congregated majesty so fills My... | |
 | John Keats - 1841 - 254 pages
...his face, And did not know it, — no, they went about, Holding a poor, decrepid standard out, Mark'd with most flimsy mottoes, and in large The name of one Boileau ! O ye whose charge It is to hover round our pleasant hills ! Whose congregated majesty so fills My... | |
 | John Keats - 1846 - 348 pages
...his face, And did not know it, — no, they went about, Holding a poor, decrepid standard out, Mark'd with most flimsy mottoes, and in large The name of one Boileau ! O ye whose charge It is to hover round our pleasant hills ! Whose congregated majesty so fills My... | |
 | John Keats - 1846 - 340 pages
...his face, And did not know it, — no, they went about, Holding a poor, decrepid standard out, Mark'd with most flimsy mottoes, and in large The name of one Boileau ! O ye whose charge It is to hover round our pleasant hills ! Whose congregated majesty so fills My... | |
 | John Keats - 1855 - 416 pages
...handicraftsmen wore the mask Of Poesy. Ill-fated, impious race ! That blasphemed the bright Lyrist to his face, And did not know it, — no, they went about,...flimsy mottoes, and in large The name of one Boileau ! O ye whose charge It is to hover round our pleasant hills ! Whose congregated majesty so fills My... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1855 - 584 pages
...the right line, and was reforming his style upon the more classical models of the language." Mark'd with most flimsy mottoes, and in large The name of one Boileau !' " A little before the manner of Pope is termed ' A seism,* Nurtured by foppery and barbarism, Made... | |
 | 1861 - 788 pages
...his faoe. .. And end nSt know it ! No, they went about, Holding a poor decrepit standard out, Mark'd with most flimsy mottoes, and, in large, The name of one Boileau ! '' Keats, then, was a Pre-Drydenist in his notions of poetry, and in his own intentions as a poetic... | |
 | 1861 - 520 pages
...Lyrist to his And did not know it ! No, they went about, Holding a poor decrepit standard out, Mark'd with most flimsy mottoes, and, in large, The name of one Boileau ! ' Keats, then, was a Pre-Drydenist in his 'notions of poetry, and in his own intentions as n poetic... | |
 | John Keats - 1863 - 370 pages
...his face, And did not know it, — no, they went about, Holding a poor, decrepit standard out, Mark'd with most flimsy mottoes, and in large The name of one Boileau ! O ye whose charge It is to hover round our pleasant hills ! Whose congregated majesty so fills My... | |
 | 1868 - 690 pages
...Happy Warrior " (1806), one of his noblest poems, has a dash of Dryden in it. 1868.] Dryden. 189 who went about Holding a poor decrepit standard out, Marked...flims-y mottoes, and in large The name of one Boileau ! " But Keats had never studied the writers of whom he speaks so contemptuously, though he might have... | |
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