 O NOW that the genius of Bewick were mine, And the skill which he learned on the banks of the Tyne, Then the Muses might deal with me just as they chose, For I'd take my last leave both of verse and of, prose. What feats would I work with my magical hand!  The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey - Side 69af Thomas De Quincey, David Masson - 1897Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | William Wordsworth - 1805 - 262 sider
...next stanza. THE TWO THIE7ES, Or The lait Stage of AVARICE. O now that the genius of Bewick were mine, And the skill which he learned on the banks of the Tyne ! Then the Muses might deal with me just as they chose, For I 'd take my las't leave both of verse... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 sider
...feels. V. THE TWO THIEVES, OK, THE LAST STAGE OF AVARICE, O NOW that the genius of Bewick were mine, And the skill which he learned on the banks of the Tyne Then the Muses might deal with me just as they chose, For I'd take my last leave both of verse and... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1840 - 354 sider
...compliments in Blackwood, and the poet Wordsworth sung — Oh now that the genius of Bewick were mine, And the skill which he learned on the banks of the Tyne, Then the Muses might deal with me just as they chose, For I'd take my last leave both of verse and... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 sider
...1804. IV. THE TWO THIEVES; OB, THE LAST STAGE OP AVARICE. O NOW that the genius of Bewick were mine, And the skill which he learned on the banks of the Tyne, Then the Muses might deal with me just as they chose, For I 'd take my last leave both of verse and... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1857 - 480 sider
...twenty ! v. THE TWO THIEVES; OK, THE LAST STAGE OF AYARICE. 0 NOW that the genius of Bewick were mine, And the skill which he learned on the banks of the Tyne, Then the Muses might deal with me just as they chose, For I'd take my last leave both of verse and... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1858 - 370 sider
...Professor himself, in so far as his other studies had left him time to pursue this science, was the * I ought in all gratitude to make an emphatic exception...vignettes of Bewick himself— "And the skill which he learn'd on the banks of the Tyne" — that gave such golden value to this book: for the printed text,... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1863 - 372 sider
...Professor himself, in so far as his other studies had left him time to pursue this science, was tha * I ought in all gratitude to make an emphatic exception...vignettes of Bewick himself— "And the skill which he learn'd on the banks of the Tyne" — that gave such golden value to this book: for the printed text,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1870 - 382 sider
...of pity than this old man, this half-doating pilferer !] 0 NOW that the genius of Bewick were mine, And the skill which he learned on the banks of the Tyne, Then the Muses might deal with me just as they chose, For I'd take my last leave both of verse and... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1870 - 382 sider
...of pity than this old man, this half-doating pilferer !] O NOW that the genius of Bewick were mine, And the skill which he learned on the banks of the Tyne, Then the Muses might deal with me just as they chose, For I'd take my last leave both of verse and... | |
 | Frederick William Fairholt - 1873 - 288 sider
...in the art of wood engraving cannot eclipse or rival the simple truth and vigour of his woodcuts — "And the skill which he learned on the banks of the Tyne." Thomas Bewick was born in 1753, at Cherry-burn, about twelve miles west of Newcastle, and received... | |
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