 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1909 - 572 pages
...imagination, he has excelled all others in this kind."— John Dryden, preface to the Second Miscellany, 1685. Great Cowley then, a mighty genius wrote, O'er-run...turns too closely on the reader press; He more had pleased us had he pleased us less, One glittering thought no sooner strikes our eyes With silent wonder... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - 1909 - 892 pages
...courteous knights. But when we look too near the shades decay, And all the pleasing landscape fades away. Great Cowley then (a mighty genius) wrote, O'er-run...thought; His turns too closely on the reader press: He had more pleased us had he pleased us less. One glittering thought no sooner strikes our eyes With... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1909 - 570 pages
...turns too closely on the reader press; He more had pleased us had he pleased us less, One glittering thought no sooner strikes our eyes With silent wonder but new wonders rise Pardon, great poet, that I dare to name Th' unnumbered beauties of thy verse with blame; Thy fault... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 812 pages
...Works, ed. Scott and Saintsbury, vol. xm, p. 116. Great Cowley then, a mighty genius, wrote, O'er run with wit, and lavish of his thought : His turns too closely on the reader press : He more had pleased us, had he pleased us less. One glittering thought no sooner strikes our eyes With silent wonder,... | |
 | Arthur Michael Samuel - 1910 - 322 pages
...begin nor when to stop. Addison's idea of Cowley's wit might perhaps apply to Piranesi's plates : — " One glitt'ring thought no sooner strikes our eyes With silent wonder, but new wonders rise : As in the milky way a shining white O'erflows the heav'ns with one continued light ; That not a single... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1914 - 540 pages
...knights. 30 But when we look too near, the shades decay, And all the pleasing landschape fades away. Great Cowley then (a mighty genius) wrote, O'er-run...thought : His turns too closely on the reader press : 35 He more had pleas'd us, had he pleas'd us less. One glittering thought no sooner strikes our eyes... | |
 | Francis Meehan - 1928 - 764 pages
...genius," there is point and judgment in this estimate of him from the pen of young Joseph Addison : Great Cowley then, a mighty genius, wrote, O'er-run...turns too closely on the reader press ; He more had pleased us, had he pleased us less. One glittering thought no sooner strikes our eyes With silent wonder,... | |
 | English poetry - 1801 - 224 pages
...And all the pleasing landscape fades away. La Great Cowley then ( a mighty genius ) wrote ,. Oier run with wit , and lavish of his thought : His turns too...more had pleas'd us , had he pleas'd us less. One glittering thought no sooner strikes our eyes With silent wonder , but new wonders rise. As in the... | |
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Great Cowley then (a mighty genius) wrote, O'errun with wit, and lavish of his thought: His turns too closely on the reader press; He more had pleased us, had he pleased us less. One glittering thought no sooner strikes our eyes With silent wonder, but... 
