 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1894 - 132 페이지
...man behind him.' The popularity of Cowley had already waned in the days of Pope, who wrote — - " * 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.' (Above Chaucer)... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1895 - 656 페이지
...his own despite. Ben, old and poor, as little sccm'd to heed The life to come, in ev'ry poet's creed. 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. 'Yet surely, surely, these were... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1896 - 794 페이지
...POPE. Begone, ye crities, and restrain your spite ; Codras writes on, and will forever write. POPS Who now reads Cowley ? If he pleases yet, His moral pleases, not his pointed wit. POPE. Yet time ennobles or degrades each line ; It brighten'd Craggs's, and may darken thine. POPE.... | |
 | Yarnall - 1897 - 104 페이지
...which was not "for an age but for all time". Pope with his usual felicity strikes the right chord : Who now reads Cowley? if he pleases yet, His moral pleases, not his pleasing wit, Forgot his Epic — nay Pindaric art, But still we love the language of his heart. Yes,... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1899 - 822 페이지
...Cowley 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 pleases, not his pointed wit; Forgot his epic, nay, Pindaric art." But the neglect into which he has fallen seems not wholly deserved. He was... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1901 - 654 페이지
...his own despite. Ben, old and poor, as little seem'd to heed The life to come, in ev'ry poet's creed. 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. ' Yet surely, surely, these were... | |
 | Sister Mary Lambertine - 1903 - 318 페이지
...myself in me. Let me so read my life, that I Unto all life of mine may die. Abraham Cowley (1618-1687). "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." Abraham Cowley was a remarkable... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1903 - 302 페이지
...closely applicable to the Irish poet are Pope's strictures on the prodigy of the Restoration period. " 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." And so of Moore, his ambitious... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1903 - 704 페이지
...his roving 192 Ben, old and poor, as little seem'd to heed The life to come in every poet's creed. 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. ' Yet surely, surely these were... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1903 - 590 페이지
...pointed lines, expresses the estimate formed of the poetry of Cowley in the eighteenth century : — Who now reads Cowley ? If he pleases yet, His moral pleases, not his pointed wit : Forgot his epic, nay Pindaric, art ; Yet still I love the language of his heart.1 A sentence in Johnson's Life... | |
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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. 
