 | Books - 1780 - 592 pages
...Writer, in point of poetical merit, may rank with that longforgotten bard of whom Dryden fays, . • , He faggotted his notions as they fell, And if they rhym'd, and rattled, all was well. The poem is a panegyric on Lord Sandwich, and on our naval commanders,' &c.... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - Conduct of life - 1791 - 510 pages
...or bad, And in one word, heroically mad : He was too warm on picking-work to dwell, ~\ But fagottcd his notions as they fell, > And if they rhym'd and rattl'd, all was well; J Spiteful he is not, though he wrote a fatyr, For ftill there goes fomc thinking to ill-nature... | |
 | Gilbert Austin - Gesture - 1806 - 684 pages
...repeater of verses, who let them know that they were such, by the mere rattling of the metrical faggot. He faggotted his notions as they fell, And if they rhym'd, and rattled, all was well. Dryden. PITCH. The voice in speaking, as in singing, is observed to move within... | |
 | James Granger - Great Britain - 1824 - 650 pages
...this everlasting rhymer, with two lines of Dryden, which comprehend his whole character as a poet : " He faggotted his notions as they fell, And if they rhym'd and rattled, all was well."* See the two preceding reigns. HUGO CROMPTON, J£t. 18. A. Hertochs sc. 12mo.... | |
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But faggotted his notions as they fell, > And if they rhym'd and rattl'd all was well. 