 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.  The Literary Magazine, and American Register - Stran 358uredili: - 1805Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 394 strani
...application of a plodding Flemish painter, who draws a shrimp VOL. 1. T with the most minute exactness, he had all the genius of one of the first masters. Never, I believe, were such talents, and such drugery united. But I admire Dryden most, who has succeeded by mere dint of genius, and jn spite of... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1826 - 906 strani
...exactness, all the genius of one of the first masters. " Never," he adds, " were such talents .mil such drudgery united. But I admire Dryden most, who has succeeded by mere dint of genius." The names of the Poets Gower, Spenser, and Cowper form bright jewels in the coronets of the respective... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 strani
...the first masters. Never 1 believe were such talents and such drudgery united. But I admire Drydcn most, who has succeeded by mere dint of genius, and...numberless, and so are his beauties. His faults are thoce of a great man, and his beauties are such (at feast sometimes) as Pope, with all his touching,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 726 strani
...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. But 1 admire Dryden most, who has succeeded by mere dint of genius, and in spite of a laziness and carelessness... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 400 strani
...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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 390 strani
...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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 406 strani
...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. 88 See Vol. ip i!62. His faults are numberless, and so are his beauties. His faults are those of a... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1843 - 388 strani
...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 sach talents and such drudgery united. But I admire Dryden most, who has succeeded by mere dint of... | |
 | William Cowper - 1851 - 624 strani
...ogine, the last proof sheet of my volume, which the first masters. Never I believe were such tafeute / N ruan, and his beauties are such (at least sometime?) as Pope, with all his touching, and retouching,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1851 - 790 strani
...shrimp with the most minute exactness, he bad all the genius of one of the first masters. Never, \ believe, were such talents and such drudgery united....carelessness almost peculiar to himself. His faults are nu'nbecless, and so are his beauties. His fanltu are those of a great man, and his beauties are such... | |
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