 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
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 944 pages
...summer nights 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...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... | |
 | John Keats - 1917 - 584 pages
...summer nights 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...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... | |
 | Sidney Colvin - 1917 - 658 pages
...summer nights 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...out with wretched rule And compass vile : so that ye thought a school Of dolts to smooth, inlay, and clip, and fit, Till, like the certain wands of Jacob's... | |
 | 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 - 1918 - 356 pages
...the Pope 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 - 386 pages
...he had taken 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...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... | |
 | Mark Van Doren - 1920 - 382 pages
...he had taken 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...and clip, and fit, Till, like the certain wands of Jacob 's wit, Their verses tallied. The Endymion had shown not even the slightest acquaintance with... | |
 | Mark Van Doren - 1920 - 380 pages
...he had taken 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...a school Of dolts to smooth, inlay, and clip, and lit, Till, like the certain wands of Jacob's wit, Their verses tallied. The Endymion had shown not... | |
 | John Keats - 1921 - 230 pages
...summer nights 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 John Collings Squire - 1921 - 730 pages
...fancy at two or three and twenty, and I accused him of leaning towards that eighteenth century That taught a school Of dolts to smooth, inlay, and clip,...certain wands of Jacob's wit, Their verses tallied. Another fanaticism delayed my friendship with two men, who are now my friends and in certain matters... | |
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