 | Maude Mary Butler - 1917 - 330 pages
...Jesus. iii PART I — GIRLHOOD PART II — MAIDENHOOD PART III — THE DAWN OF WOMANHOOD PART I GIRLHOOD "Art she had none, yet wanted none; For Nature did...treasures of her own, She might our boasted stores defy." Dryden. vii CONTENTS PART I GIRLHOOD CHAPTER PAGE IA WELCOME PROPOSITION i II THE BLACKSMITH'S DAUGHTER... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1918 - 1120 pages
...unsoil'd, Unmix'd with foreign filth, and undefiled ; Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child. Art she had none, yet wanted none, For Nature did...own, She might our boasted stores defy : Such noble vigou» did her verse adorn, That it seem'd borrow'd, where 'twas only born. • Her morals, too, were... | |
 | 1918 - 2062 pages
...unsoiled, Unmixed with foreign filth and undefiled, Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child. ighty cygre vigor did her verse adorn, That it seemed borrowed, where 'twas only born. Her morals too were in her... | |
 | John Dryden, William Congreve, Samuel Johnson, Walter Scott - 1925 - 230 pages
...Unmixed with foreign filth, and undefiled, Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child ! 70 5 Art she had none, yet wanted none, For Nature did...stores defy : Such noble vigour did her verse adorn, 75 That it seemed borrowed, where 'twas only born. Her morals too were in her bosom bred By great examples... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - 1927 - 1432 pages
...unsoiled, Unmixed with foreign filth, and undefiled; Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child. 70 dullness joins with quality ; 415 vigor did her verse adorn 75 That it seemed borrowed, where 't was only born. Her morals too were in... | |
 | Kenneth Knowles Ruthven - 1984 - 308 pages
...Killigrew. Artlessly original, she nevertheless writes so well that you would think her work derivative: Such noble vigour did her verse adorn, That it seemed borrowed, where 'twas only born.17 Even allowing for the force of the witticism, Dryden's comment was not nearly so Wildean a... | |
 | Marilyn L. Williamson - 1990 - 380 pages
...to have alluded to this capacity for dramatizing a female perspective on famous events when he said: Art she had none, yet wanted none For Nature did that...Treasures of her Own, She might our boasted Stores defy: 82 Such Noble Vigour did her Verse adorn, That it seem'd borrow'd, where 'twas only born. (Sig. aSy... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...unsoil'd, Unniixt with foreign filth, and undefil'd, Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child! 70 Art she had none, yet wanted none: For Nature did...boasted stores defy: Such noble vigour did her verse adom, That it seem'd borrow'd, where 'twas only bom. Her morals too were in her bosom bred By great... | |
 | Shawn L. Maurer - 1998 - 330 pages
...fifth stanza of his Killigrew Ode (my thanks to James Winn for calling my attention to this passage): Art she had none, yet wanted none; For Nature did...adorn, That it seemed borrowed where 'twas only born. (lines 71-76). M8 28. May 1692, 9-11. 29. In an essay entitled an "Account of the charms and miseries... | |
 | Steven N. Zwicker - 1998 - 362 pages
...critics have concluded that Dryden disparages when he praises Killigrew's sole reliance on "nature": "Art she had none, yet wanted none; / For Nature did.../ She might our boasted Stores defy; / Such Noble Vigor did her Verse adorn" (lines 71-75). Yet Dryden, who throughout his career counterposes "nature"... | |
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Art she had none, yet wanted none, For Nature did that want supply : So rich in treasures of her own, She might our boasted stores defy: Such noble vigour did her verse adorn That it seemed borrowed, where 'twas only born. 
