 | Joseph Addison - English literature - 1883 - 596 pages
...safe to prophecy of such. All he had of Dryden's mu\> was only his quaint ami «ll-applie1 wit. Ho 9 negligently graceful he unreins His verse, and writes...Boyne's dy'd waves run purple to the sea. Nor Simois choak'd with men, and arms, and blood; Nor rapid Xanthus' celebrated flood, Shall longer be the poet's... | |
 | Edward Arber - English poetry - 1899 - 336 pages
...demands one labour more! The noble MONTAGU remains unnamed; For wit, for humour, and for judgement famed! To DORSET, he directs his art-ful Muse In Numbers such as DORSET'S self might use! Now, negligently graceful, he unreins His Verse, and writes in loose familiar strains. Now, NASSAU'S... | |
 | Edward Arber - English poetry - 1899 - 338 pages
...demands one labour more! The noble MONTAGU remains unnamed; For wit, for humour, and for judgement famed! To DORSET, he directs his art-ful Muse In Numbers such as DORSET'S self might use! Now, negligently graceful, he unreins His Verse, and writes in loose familiar strains. Now, NASSAU'S... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1912 - 1214 pages
...Then it was that Addison praised the noble Montague. " For wit, for humour, and for judgment fanv'd, * hat prodigious young scholar, Mr. Chr. Wren." Young Christopher Wren, nephew of th Montague and Somers, who were fast friends, now urged on King William the policy of calling in and... | |
 | William John Courthope - English poetry - 1905 - 502 pages
...Chaucer and Spenser :— The noble Montague remains unnamed, For wit, for humour, and for judgment famed. To Dorset he directs his artful muse, In numbers such...adorn his lines, And all the hero in full glory shines ! 2 But since Macaulay allows that Halifax " succeeded in associating his name inseparably with some... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1906 - 410 pages
...labour more : The noble Montagu remains unnamed, For wit, for humour, and for judgment famed ; 135 To Dorset he directs his artful Muse, In numbers such...strains ; How Nassau's godlike acts adorn his lines, 140 And all the hero in full glory shines. We see his army set in just array, And Boyne's dyed waves... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1906 - 414 pages
...unreins His verse, and writes in loose familiar strains ; How Nassau's godlike acts adorn his lines, 140 And all the hero in full glory shines. We see his army set in just array, And Boyne's dyed waves run purple to the sea. Nor Simois choked with men, and arms, and blood ; Nor rapid Xanthus1... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - English poetry - 1909 - 892 pages
...demands one labour more: The noble Montagu remains unnamed, For wit, for humour, and for judgment famed: To Dorset he directs his artful muse, In numbers such...loose familiar strains; How Nassau's godlike acts adorns his lines, And all the hero in full glory shines. We see his army set in just array, And Boyne's... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1910 - 812 pages
...Niece, p. 70. GENERAL The noble Montagu remains unnamed, For wit, for humour , and for judgment famed ; To Dorset he directs his artful muse, In numbers such...unreins His verse, and writes in loose, familiar strains ! — ADDISON, JOSEPH, 1694, An Account of the Greatest English Poets. For ev'ry. Grace of every Muse... | |
 | Henry Morley - English literature - 1912 - 1416 pages
...Then it was that Addison praised the noble Montague. " For wit, for humour, and for judgment ftun'd, To Dorset he directs his artful muse, In numbers such as Dorset's self mij;ht use." Montague and Somers, who were fast friends, now urged on King William the policy of calling... | |
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To Dorset he directs his artful muse, In numbers such as Dorset's self might use. HOW negligently graceful he unreins His verse, and writes in loose familiar strains ; How Nassau's godlike acts adorn his lines. And all the hero in full glory shines. We... 
