 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - Poets, English - 1835 - 376 pages
...and beginning by teaching the art. Hear him :( 2 ) " But ye were dead To things ye knew not of—were closely wed To musty laws lined out with wretched rule And compass vile; so that ye taught a school (3) f(l) [Written by Lord Byron's early friend, the Rev. Francis Hodgson.] (2) [In a manuscript note... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1835 - 396 pages
...what he must Inevitably encounter in the course of a life ambitious of public " ' But ye were dead To things ye knew not of — were closely wed To musty...ye taught a school * Of dolts to smooth, inlay, and chip, and Jit, Till, like the certain wands of Jacob's wit, Their verses tallied. Easy was tlie task... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - English poetry - 1840 - 554 pages
...collected still to make The morning precious : Beauty was awake ! Why were ye not awuko ? But ye were dead To things ye knew not of, — were closely wed To...rule And compass vile : so that ye taught a school Of dolte to smooth, inlay, and clip, and fit, Till, like the certain wands of Jacob's wit, Their verses... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 364 pages
...poets of the Frenchified English school, " a school of dolts." -" Ye taught a school Of dolts, lhat smooth, inlay and clip and fit Till like the certain...Jacob's wit Their verses tallied. Easy was the task." Perhaps Keats would not have found the composition of another " Rape of the Lock," quite so easy a... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - English literature - 1840 - 370 pages
...poets of the Frenchified English school, " a school of dolts." " Ye taught a school Of dolts, thai smooth, inlay and clip and fit Till like the certain...of Jacob's wit Their verses tallied. Easy was the tusk." is even in the " Essay on Man" and the " Prologue to Cato," something more than " A puling infant's... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - English poetry - 1840 - 552 pages
...collected still to make The morning precious : Beauty was awake ! Why were ye not awake I But ye were dead To things ye knew not of, — were closely wed To musty laws lined out wilh wretched rule And compass vile : во that ye taught a school Of dolts to smooth, inlay, and clip,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 414 pages
...encounter in the course of a lifu ambitious of public c 3 22 NOTICES OF THE 1820. " ' But ye were dead To things ye knew not of — were closely wed To musty...; so that ye taught a school * Of dolts to smooth, May, and chip, Mu\jii, Till, like the certain wands of Jacob's wit, Tlu'ir verses tallied. Easy was... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1855 - 584 pages
...person learning to write poetry, and beginning by teaching the art. Hear him :f ' But ye were dead To things ye knew not of — were closely wed To musty...wretched rule And compass vile ; so that ye taught a schoolj Of dolls to smooth., inlay, and chip, and fil, Till, like the certain wands of Jacob's wit,... | |
 | Paul Hamilton Payne - Literature, Modern - 1859 - 610 pages
...precious: Beauty was awake ! Why were ye not awake? But ye were dead To things ye knew not of—were closely wed To musty laws, lined out with wretched...a school Of dolts, to smooth, inlay, and clip, and at, Till, like the certain wands of Jacob's wit, Their verses tallied,—&c. fee. The reader can hardly... | |
 | Paul Hamilton Payne - Literature, Modern - 1859 - 610 pages
...collected still to make The Morning precious: Btauty was awake ! Why were ye not awake ? But ye were dead To things ye knew not of — were closely wed To musty laws, lined out with wretched usty la rule. And compass vile; so that ye taught a school Of dolts, to smooth, inlay, and clip, and... | |
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The morning precious: beauty was awake! Why were ye not awake? But ye were dead To things ye knew not of, — were closely wed To musty laws lined out with wretched rule And compass vile: so that ye taught a school Of dolts to smooth, inlay, and clip,... 
