 | John Dryden - 1893 - 236 Seiten
...good or bad, And, in one word, heroically mad, He was too warm on picking- work to dwell, But faggoted his notions as they fell, '^, And, if they rhymed and rattled, all was well. 42O Spiteful he is not, though he wrote a satire, For still there goes some thinking to ill-nature... | |
 | John Dryden, William Dougal Christie - 1893 - 780 Seiten
...good or bad. And, in one word, heroically mad, He was too warm on picking-work to dwell, But faggoted his notions as they fell, And, if they rhymed and rattled, all was well. 420 Spiteful he is not, though he wrote a satire, For still there goes some thinking to ill-nature... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1894 - 266 Seiten
...faults of the worst authors. He was without distinction and without charm ; he "faggotted his fancies as they fell, and if they rhymed and rattled, all was well." The work was hurriedly, unconscientiously and inartistically done, and he appealed directly to a commonplace... | |
 | Stuart Johnson Reid - 1895 - 412 Seiten
...described him in Parliament by quoting the lines of Dryden : — ' He was not one on picking work to dwell. He fagotted his notions as they fell ; And if they rhymed and rattled, all was well.' ' Of his early chiefs, he used to speak with most reverence of Lord Grey. Lord Melbourne, he said,... | |
 | Stuart Johnson Reid - 1895 - 412 Seiten
...described him in Parliament by quoting the lines of Dryden :— ' He was not one on picking work to dwell. He fagotted his notions as they fell; And if they rhymed and rattled, all was well.' 'Of his early chiefs, he used to speak with most reverence of Lord Grey. Lord Melbourne, he said, greatly... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1895 - 530 Seiten
...good or bad, And, in one word, heroically mad, He was too warm on picking-work to dwell, But faggoted his notions as they fell, And, if they rhymed and rattled, all was well. Spiteful he is not, though he wrote a satire, For still there goes some thinking to ill-nature ; He... | |
 | Robert Hoe, Oscar Albert Bierstadt - 1895 - 390 Seiten
...versions of Job, Ecclesiastes, and the Psalms. Francis Ojiarles is said to have "fagoted his fancies as they fell, and if they rhymed and rattled, all was well." There are surely many good fagots in his emblematic, Biblical, and other poetry. This collection includes... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1896 - 504 Seiten
...whether good or bad, And, in one word, heroically mad. He was too warm on picking-work to dwell, But fagotted his notions as they fell, And if they rhymed and rattled, all was well. The fat Shadwell comes in for even worse : Og, from a treason tavern rolling home, Round as a globe... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1896 - 794 Seiten
...line Sir Formal's oratory will be thine. DRYDEN. He was too warm on picking work to dwell, But fagoted his notions as they fell, And if they rhymed and rattled, all was well. DRYDEN. Pride often guides the author's pen ; Books as affected are as men ; But he who studies nature's... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1896 - 520 Seiten
...good or bad, And, in one word, heroically mad, He was too warm on picking-work to dwell, But faggoted his notions as they fell, And, if they rhymed and rattled, all was well. Spiteful he is not, though he wrote a satire, For still there goes some thinking to ill-nature ; •... | |
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Spurred boldly on, and dashed through thick and thin Through sense and nonsense, never out nor in: Free from all meaning, whether good or bad, And, in one word, heroically mad, He was too warm on picking-work to dwell, But faggoted his notions as they... 
