 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 192 Seiten
...unwearied application of a plodding Flemish painter, who draws a shrimp with the most minute exactness, he had all the genius of one of the first masters. Never,...believe, were such talents and such drudgery united.' It must not be hence inferred that every line written by Pope is as perfect as it should be, or may... | |
 | William Cowper - 1874 - 346 Seiten
...unwearied application of a plodding Flemish painter, who draws a shrimp with the most minute exactness, he had all the genius of one of the first masters. Never,...believe, were such talents and such drudgery united.' — To Unwin, Jan. 5, 1782. Referring to the above couplet, Macaulay remarks : ' Alfieri speaks with... | |
 | William Cowper - 1874 - 330 Seiten
...unwearied application of a plodding Flemish painter, who draws a shrimp with the most minute exactness, he had all the genius of one of the first masters. Never,...believe, were such talents and such drudgery united.' — To Unwin, Jan. 5, 1782. Referring to the above couplet, Macaulay remarks: ' Alfieri speaks with... | |
 | William Cowper - 1874 - 340 Seiten
...unwearied application of a plodding Flemish painter, who draws a shrimp with the most minute exactness, he had all the genius of one of the first masters. Never, I believe, were such talents and such drudgery united.'—To Unwin, Jan. 5, 1782. Referring to the above couplet, Macaulay remarks: ' Alfieri speaks... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1881 - 516 Seiten
...and sound judgment. Cowper, in one of his letters, professes his adherence to it. He says of Pope, " Never, I believe, were such talents and such drudgery...almost peculiar to himself. His faults are numberless, but so are his beauties." (2) Integrity, rectitude. Neither of these words is used appropriately here.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1881 - 176 Seiten
...unwearied application of a plodding Flemish painter, who draws a shrimp with the most minute exactness, he had all the genius of one of the first masters. Never,...believe, were such talents and such drudgery united.' It must not be hence inferred that every line written by Pope is as perfect as it should be, or may... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1881 - 196 Seiten
...unwearied application of a plodding Flemish painter, who draws a shrimp with the most minute exactness, he had all the genius of one of the first masters. Never,...believe, were such talents and such drudgery united.' -Jt must not be hence inferred that every line written by Pope is as perfect as it should be, or may... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1887 - 408 Seiten
...that indefinable something we call Genius. " But I admire Dryden most [he had been speaking of Pope], who has succeeded by mere dint of genius, and in spite of a laziness and a carelessness almost peculiar to himself. His faults are numberless, and so are his beauties. His... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 410 Seiten
...that indefinable something we call Genius. " But I admire Dryden most [he had been speaking of Pope], who has succeeded by mere dint of genius, and in spite of a laziness and a carelessness almost peculiar to himself. His faults are numberless, and so are his beauties. His... | |
 | Thomas Wright - 1892 - 744 Seiten
...unwearied application of a plodding Flemish painter, who draws a shrimp with the most minute exactness, he had all the genius of one of the first masters. Never,...laziness and carelessness almost peculiar to himself." On Prior he considered the Doctor had been too severe. As for historians, he admired Robertson, but... | |
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With the unwearied application of a plodding Flemish painter, who draws a shrimp with the most minute exactness, he had all the genius of one of the first masters. Never, I believe, were such talents and such drudgery united. 
