 | Edmund Waller - 1806 - 320 էջ
...despis'd) Men will be less indnlgent to their fanlts, Arid patience have to cultivate their thoughts. Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot, Finding new words, that to the ravish'd car May like the language of the gods appear,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1813 - 544 էջ
...productions, when he was less skilful, or at least less dextrous in the use of words ; and though they bad been more frequent, they could only have lessened...lose half the praise they should have got, Could it he known what they discretely blot." On the above, so often repeated, linfs on the Thames, and so often... | |
 | Joseph Spence - 1820 - 324 էջ
...others since corrected and improved. Some few the author afterwards added, and in particular the four celebrated lines on the Thames, " O ! could I flow...they should have got, " Could it be known what they discreetly blot." Though it might be a very useful lesson for a poet to compare those two editions... | |
 | Joseph Spence - 1820 - 318 էջ
...others since corrected and improved. Some few the author afterwards added, and in particular the four celebrated lines on the Thames, " O ! could I flow...they should have got, " Could it be known what they discreetly blot." Though it might be a very useful lesson for a poet to compare those two editions... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 428 էջ
...this dim narrow spot, &c. -• ..I These lines, I think, may serve as a specimen of the truth of what Waller says, Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot. 5. this dim spot, Which men call Earth,] As Adam speaks to the angel, Par. L. viii.... | |
 | 1839 - 674 էջ
...afterwards added, and in particular the celebrated line on the Thames, " О could I flow ltke thee," Ac. all with admirable judgment; and the whole read together, is a very striking proof of what Mr. Waller says, that "Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could... | |
 | 1847 - 666 էջ
...afterwards added, and in particular the celebrated line on the Thames, ' , O could I flow like thee," *e. the@; , striking proo f of what Mr. Waller says, that " Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 էջ
...— Cumberland. But care in poetry must still be had, It asks discretion ev'n in running mad. Pope. Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot. Waller. DISDAIN. EITHER greet him not, Or else disdainfully, which shall shake him... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 472 էջ
...Some few the author afterwards added; and in particular the four celebrated lines on the Thames: 0 could I flow like thee, &c. All with admirable judgment,...they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot. PorE (Note in his copy of Denham): Spence by Singer, p. 281. JOHN MILTON. ( 81 .)... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1854 - 584 էջ
...títere Here is the art of word-painting carried to perfection. Who does not feel with Waller? — Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot. A TERRIBLE WOUND — OF THE IMAGINATION. — Dr. Noble, in an analytic lecture at... | |
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I flow like thee," &c. all with admirable judgment; and the whole read together is a very strong proof of what Mr. Waller says : "Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot. 
