 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,...  The Works of Lord Byron - Page 247by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1904Full view - About this book
 | 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 - 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 - 1840 - 552 pages
...summer night 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 - 1855 - 584 pages
...volume of a young 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...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 - 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 - 1859 - 610 pages
...Summer night 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... | |
 | 1861 - 520 pages
...summer-night collected still to make The morning precious ; Beauty was awake ! Why were ye not awake 1 But ye were dead To things ye knew not of, — were...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.... | |
 | 1861 - 788 pages
...summer-night 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...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.... | |
 | sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 pages
...summer night 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...like the certain wands of Jacob's wit, Their verses tallied.1 Easy was the task : A thousand handicraftsmen wore the mask Of poetry. Ill-fated, impious... | |
 | Louise Haussonville (comtesse d') - 1874 - 296 pages
...person learning to write poetry, and beginning by teaching the art. Hear him : « Bot ye were dead Tu things ye knew not of — were closely wed To musty...rule And compass vile ; so that ye taught a school Of doits to smooth, inlay, and chip and fit, Till, like the certain wands of Jacob's wit, ï'/tei/' venes... | |
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