| Vicesimus Knox - 1805 - 320 oldal
...any higher. It is true, that moderate poetry cannot raise them; but what think you of Milton's muse I Cowley very justly says, " none but a good artist...Mr. Quarles, or some other godly matter, like .Mr. Hay-Mood of Angels, into rhyme, he is to Jar from elevating of poesie that be only debases dlvinity.... | |
| Abraham Cowley - 1806 - 294 oldal
...the world for it. Yet, though they be in themselves so proper to be made use of for this purpose ; none but a good artist will know how to do it : neither...by only turning a story of the Scripture, like Mr. Quarles's, or some other godly matter, like Mr. Heywood of angels, into rhyme ; he is so far from elevating... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 oldal
...the world for it. Yet, though they be in themselves so proper to be made use of for this purpose ; none but a good artist will know how to do it ; neither...by only turning a story of the Scripture, like Mr. Quarle's, or some other godly matter, like Mr. Heywood of angels, into rhyme ; he is so far from elevating... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 348 oldal
...the world for it. Yet, though they be in themselves so proper to be made use of for this purpose ; none but a good artist will know how to do it : neither...by only turning a story of the Scripture, like Mr. Quarles's, or some other godly matter, like Mr. Heywood of angels, into rhyme ; he is so far from elevating... | |
| Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 276 oldal
...swearing.' NUMBER CHI. On the Possibility of advancing Sacred Poetry to great Perfection.—Ev. 103. •SIR, 'THERE is, I think, a prejudice against sacred...Mr. Quarles, or some other godly matter, like Mr. Haywood of Angels, into rhyme, he is so far from elevating offoesie that lie only abases divinity.... | |
| 1823 - 320 oldal
...and they thought sacred poetry not likely to confer it in the same degree as profane. If Shakespeare, Dryden, and Pope, had directed their powers to it,...poem, by only turning a story of the Scripture, like Mr.Quarles, or some other godly matter, like Mr. Hay wood of IDS. OR, LUCUBRATIONS. 63 Angels, into... | |
| Abraham Cowley - 1826 - 296 oldal
...in the world for it. Yet, though they be in themselves so proper to be made use of for this purpose, none but a good artist will know how to do it : neither...by only turning a story of the Scripture, like Mr. Quarles's, or some other godly matter, like Mr. Heywood of angels, into rhyme, he is so far from elevating... | |
| Abraham Cowley - 1826 - 298 oldal
...in the world for it. Yet, though they be in themselves so proper to be made use of for this purpose, none but a good artist will know how to do it : neither...by only turning a story of the Scripture, like Mr. Quarles's, or some other godly matter, like Mr. Heywood of angels, into rhyme, he is so far from elevating... | |
| Abraham Cowley - 1826 - 298 oldal
...in the world for it. Yet, though they be in themselves so proper to be made use of for this purpose, none but a good artist •will know how to do it :...by only turning a story of the Scripture, like Mr. Quarles's, or some other godly matter, like Mr. Heywood of angels, into rhyme, he is so far from elevating... | |
| 1847 - 584 oldal
...in the world for it. Yet, though they be in themselves so proper to be made use of for this purpose, none but a good artist will know how to do it : neither...we think to cut and polish diamonds with so little skill as we do marble ; for, if any man design to compose a sacred poem, by only turning a story of... | |
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