 | William Cowper - 1803 - 456 pages
...not run as smooth as quicksilver, they are offended. A critic of the present day, serves a poem as a cook serves a dead turkey, when she fastens the...numbers, we had better drop the imitation, which serves no other purpose than to emasculate and weaken all we write.—Give me a manly, rough line, with a... | |
 | William Hayley - Authors, English - 1803 - 450 pages
...not run as smooth as quicksilver, they are offended. A critic of the present day, serves a poem as a cook serves a dead .turkey, when she fastens the...compactness of his expression, as well as in the smoothness o£jfe numbers, we had better drop the imitation, which serves no other purpose than to emasculate... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 486 pages
...not run as smooth as quicksilver, they o are offended. A critic of the present day serves a poem as a cook serves a dead turkey, when she fastens the...numbers, we had better drop the imitation, which serves no other purpose than to emasculate and weaken all we write. Give me a manly, rough line, with a deal... | |
 | William Hayley - 1806 - 488 pages
...not run as smooth as quicksilver, th.ey are offended. A critic of the present day serves a poem as a cook serves a dead turkey, when she fastens the...could imitate him in the closeness and compactness qf his expression, as well as in the smoothness of his numbers, we had better drop the imitation, which... | |
 | William Cowper - 1809 - 472 pages
...smooth as quicksilver they 258 are offended. A critic of the present day serves a poem as a cook servesa dead turkey, when she fastens the legs of it to a...numbers, we had better drop the imitation, which serves no other purpose than to emascnlate and weaken all we write. Give me a manly, rough line, with a deal... | |
 | William Cowper, William Hayley - 1812 - 446 pages
...do not run as smooth as quicksilver they are offended. A critic of the present day serves a poem as a cook serves a dead turkey, when she fastens the...numbers, we had better drop the imitation, which serves no other purpose than to. emasculate and weaken all we write. Give me a manly, rough line, with a deal... | |
 | William Hayley - 1812 - 450 pages
...do not run as smooth as quicksilver they are offended. A critic of the present day serves a poem as a cook serves a dead turkey, when she fastens the...to a post, and draws out all the sinews. For this Ave may thank Pope; but unless we could imitate him in the closeness and compactness of his expression,... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1817 - 536 pages
...not run as smooth as quicksilver, they are offended. A critick of the present day, serves a poem as a cook serves a dead turkey, when she fastens the...of it to a post, and draws out all the sinews. For Ihis we may thank Pope; but unless we could imitate him in the closeness and compactness of his expression,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 pages
...do not run as smooth as quicksilver they are offended. A critic of the present day serves a poem as a cook serves a dead turkey, when she fastens the legs of it to a post, and draw* out all the sinews. For this we may thank Pope ; but unless we could imitate him in the closeness... | |
 | 1858 - 974 pages
...smooth as quicksilver, they are offended. A critic of the present day serves a poem as a cook selves a dead turkey, when she fastens the legs of it to a post anil draws out all its sinuus. For this we may thank Pope; but give me a manly, rough line, with a... | |
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A critic of the present day serves a poem as a cook serves a dead turkey, when she fastens the legs of it to a post, and draws out all the sinews. For this we may thank Pope ; but unless we could imitate him in the closeness and compactness of his expression,... 
