 | William Cowper - Authors, English - 1904 - 544 pages
...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,...almost peculiar to himself. His faults are numberless, but so are his beauties. His faults are those of a great man, and his beauties are such (at least sometimes),... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1904 - 352 pages
...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... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1910 - 616 pages
...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,...almost peculiar to himself. His faults are numberless, but so are his beauties. His faults are those of a great man, and his beauties are such (at least sometimes),... | |
 | Rudolf Kahn - 1910 - 144 pages
...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"'). Bezeichnend ist auch der nun folgende Vergleich mit Dryden. „1 admire Dryden most, who has succeeded... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...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,...almost peculiar to himself. His faults are numberless, but so are his beauties. His faults are those of a great man, and his beauties are such (at least sometimes)... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 754 pages
...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,...almost peculiar to himself. His faults are numberless, but so are his beauties. His faults are those of a great man, and his beauties are such (at least sometimes)... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...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,...almost peculiar to himself. His faults are numberless, but so are his beauties. His faults are those of a great man, and his beauties are such (at least sometimes)... | |
 | William Cowper - Poets, English - 1912 - 556 pages
...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,...almost peculiar to himself. His faults are numberless, but so are his beauties. His faults are those of a great man, and his beauties are such, (at least... | |
 | Marjorie Latta Barstow Greenbie - 1917 - 220 pages
...of a plodding Flemish painter, who draws a shrimp with the most minute exactness,' says Cowper,2 'he had all the genius of one of the first masters. Never,...believe, were such talents and such drudgery united.' He found as much pleasure in correcting as in writmore like Wordsworth: 'I have often found by experience... | |
 | English language - 1917 - 220 pages
...of a plodding Flemish painter, who draws a shrimp with the most minute exactness,' says Cowper,2 'he had all the genius of one of the first masters. Never,...believe, were such talents and such drudgery united.' He found as much pleasure in correcting as in writmore like Wordsworth: 'I have often found by experience... | |
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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. 
