 | Theodore Whitefield Hunt - English literature - 1914 - 348 pages
...satire, in " Sleep and Poetry " : — " Beauty was awake ! Why were ye not awake? But ye were dead To things ye knew not of — were closely wed To musty...compass vile: so that ye taught a school Of dolts to smoothe, inlay, and clip, and fit, Till, like the certain wands of Jacob's wit. Their verses tallied.... | |
 | Theodore Whitefield Hunt - English literature - 1914 - 346 pages
...satire, in " Sleep and Poetry " : — " 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 vi!e: so that ye taught a school Of dolts to smoothe, Inlay, and clip, and fit, Till, like the certain... | |
 | American fiction - 1916 - 548 pages
...make The morning precious ; beauty was awake ! Why were ye not awake ? But ye were dead To things you knew not of, — were closely wed To musty laws lined...fit, Till, like the certain wands of Jacob's wit, A thousand handicraftsmen wore the mask Of poesy. The back-swing of the pendulum from this extreme... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 530 pages
...closely wed To musty laws lined out with wretched rule And compass vile: so that ye taught a school 35 Of dolts to smooth, inlay, and clip, and fit, Till,...handicraftsmen wore the mask Of Poesy. Ill-fated, impious race! 40 That blasphemed the bright Lyrist to his face, And did not know it, — no, they went about, Holding... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 944 pages
...collected still to make 30 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...rule And compass vile: so that ye taught a school 35 Of dolts to smooth, inlay, and clip, and fit, Till, like the certain wands of Jacob's wit, Their... | |
 | Literature - 1917 - 502 pages
...collected still to make 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...wore the mask Of Poesy. Ill-fated, impious race! That blasphem'd the bright Lyrist to his face, And did not know it, — no, they went about, Holding a poor,... | |
 | John Keats - Poets, English - 1917 - 584 pages
...collected still to make 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...the task : A thousand handicraftsmen wore the mask i00 Of Poesy. Ill-fated, impious race ! That blasphemed the bright Lyrist to his face, And did not... | |
 | English philology - 1917 - 646 pages
...conventional. Such is particularly and notoriously the method of Trautmann and his Bonn seminar, who "smooth, inlay, and clip, and fit, Till, like the certain wands of Jacob's wit, Their verses tally. " A not too distant analogy to this method of criticism is Bentley's rewriting of Paradise Lost,... | |
 | Frederick Erastus Pierce - English poetry - 1918 - 356 pages
...tradition. He called it a schism Nurtured by foppery and barbarism; and told its adherents, Ye were dead To things ye knew not of, — were closely wed To musty laws lined out with wretched rule. . . . A thousand handicraftsmen wore the mask Of Poesy. Ill-fated, impious racel . . . Holding a poor,... | |
 | Mark Van Doren - 1920 - 378 pages
...pains to address a most unscholarly rebuke to Dryden and Pope : Why were ye not awake? But ye were dead To things ye knew not of, — were closely wed To...certain wands of Jacob's wit, Their verses tallied. The Endymion had shown not even the slightest acquaintance with the secrets of Dryden's meter. But... | |
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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,... 
