 | James Robert Boyd - English language - 1844 - 372 pages
...of expression. P24 BRITISH POETS. The followmg is one of the most admired passages in this poem : " But most by numbers judge a poet's song ; And smooth...tuneful fools admire. Who haunt Parnassus but to please the ear, Not mend their minds ; as some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there.... | |
 | Leonor de Almeida Portugal Lorena e Lencastre Alorna (Marquesa de) - 1844 - 884 pages
...too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are try'd Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But most by Numbers judge a Poet's song; And smooth...with them, is right or wrong: In the bright Muse, tho' thousand charms conspire, Her Voice is oil these tuneful fools admire; Who haunt Parnassus but... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1846 - 328 pages
...new or old : .' Be not the first by whom the new are tried, ) Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But most by numbers judge a poet's song ; And smooth...conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; 34C Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear, Not mend their minds ; as some to church repair,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 488 pages
...new, or old : Be not the first by whom the new are try'd, 335 Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But most by Numbers judge a Poet's song, And smooth...with them, is right or wrong : In the bright Muse, tho' thousand charms conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; 340 Who haunt Parnassus... | |
 | Quintus Horatius Flaccus - 1848 - 588 pages
...Roman ear was lesa nice and accurate than the Attic. Pope complains of the opposite extreme : — " But most by numbers judge a poet's song, And smooth or rough with them is right or wrong." Essny, ii.] 265. Idcircone vager. The connection is this. "Because Roman poets are excused for lack... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1848 - 642 pages
...vanity display What the fine gentleman wore yesterday ; 330 POPE'S POETICAL WORKS. But most hy numhers judge a poet's song ; And smooth or rough, with them, is right or wrong: In the hright muse though thousand charms conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; 340 Who... | |
 | Timothy Stone Pinneo - Readers - 1847 - 502 pages
...sword on high, And swear, for her — to live — with her — to die. Butmosi — by numbers judge the poet's song; And smooth or rough, with them is — right or wrong. He said ; then full before their sight Produced the beast, and lo ! — 'twas while. And if thou Btiid'st... | |
 | William Sloan Graham - Biography & Autobiography - 1849 - 292 pages
...the music of his verse. Pope, also, the great master of "smooth" rhythm, taught the same doctrine, " But most by numbers judge a poet's song, And smooth...conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire." "Pis plain, the poet agrees with the "tuneful fools," in considering " smoothness" the essential quality... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pages
...too new, or old : Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But most by numbers judge a poet's song, And smooth or rough, with them, is right or wrong i : In the bright Muse, though thousand charms conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire... | |
 | William Enfield, James Pycroft - 1851 - 422 pages
...bounty blest, And Heav'n beholds its image in his breast. POPE. CHAPTER XVII. ON VERSIFICATION. MANY by Numbers judge a Poet's song ; And smooth or rough,...ear, Not mend their minds ; as some to church repair, These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire ; While expletives their... | |
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Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear, Not mend their minds; as some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Tho... 
