 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1892 - 428 pages
...aspiring muse. This headstrong writer falling from on high, Made following authors take less liberty. 130 Waller came last, but was the first whose art Just...teach the force, And showed for poetry a nobler course ; His happy genius did our tongue refine, 135 And easy words with pleasing numbers join ; His verses... | |
 | Albert Stanburrough Cook - Poetry - 1892 - 378 pages
...muse. This headstrong writer, falling from on high, Made following authors take less liberty. Watter came last, but was the first whose art : Just weight...the force, And showed for poetry a nobler course. [His happy genius did our tongue refine, And easy words with pleasing numbers join ; pis verses to... | |
 | John Dryden - 1892 - 428 pages
...This headstrong writer falling from on high, Made following authors take less liberty. 130 Wallf-r came last, but was the first whose art Just weight...That of a well-placed word could teach the force, And showed^for poetry a nobler course ; His happy genius did our tongue refine, 135 And e&sy words with... | |
 | Lady Strachey (Jane Maria) - English poetry - 1894 - 376 pages
...high, Made following authors take less liberty. Waller came last, but was the first whose art Waller. Just weight and measure did to verse impart; That of a well-placed word could teach the force, And show'd for poetry a nobler course ; His happy genius did our tongue refine, And easy words with pleasing... | |
 | Richard Garnett - Literature - 1899 - 578 pages
...aspiring muse. This headstrong writer, falling from on high, Made following authors take less liberty. Waller came last, but was the first whose art Just...the force, And showed for poetry a nobler course. His happy genius did our tongue reiine, And easy words with pleasmg numbers join; • His verses to... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1899 - 430 pages
...aspiring musa. This headstrong writer, falling from on high, Made following authors take less liberty. Waller came last, but was the first whose art Just...impart, That of a well-placed word could teach the forw^ And showed for poetry a nobler course. His happy genius did our tongue refine, And easy words... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 434 pages
...aspiring muse. This headstrong writer, falling from on high, Made following authors take less liberty. Waller came last, but was the first whose art Just...the force, And showed for poetry a nobler course. His happy genius did our tongue refine, And easy words with pleasing numbers join ; His verses to good... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1901 - 812 pages
...Mr. Waller set it a running.— RYMER, THOMAS, 1678-92, A Short View of the Tragedy of the Last Age. Waller came last, but was the first whose art Just...That of a well-placed word could teach the force, And show'd for poetry a nobler course ; His happy genius did our tongue refine, And easy words with pleasing... | |
 | Alexander Frederick Bruce Clark - Comparative literature - 1925 - 570 pages
...his rimes. This headstrong author, falling from on high, Made following authors take less liberty. Waller came last, but was the first whose art Just...teach the force And showed for poetry a nobler course. His happy genius did our tongue refine And easy words with pleasing numbers join ; His verses to good... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - Anthologies - 1901 - 438 pages
...aspiring muse. This headstrong writer, falling from on high, Made following authors take less liberty. Waller came last, but was the first whose art Just...the force, And showed for poetry a nobler course. His happy genius did our tongue refine, And easy words with pleasing numbers join ; His verses to good... | |
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Waller came last, but was the first whose art Just weight and measure did to verse impart, That of a well-placed word could teach the force, And showed for poetry a nobler course. 
