 | Alan Houston, Steve Pincus - 2001 - 368 pages
...natural 'Vigour' - a quality traditionally ascribed to males - rather than upon 'Art' or poetic craft: 'Art she had none, yet wanted none; / For Nature did...Stores defy: / Such Noble Vigour did her Verse adorn' (lines 7t-5l. 49 Dryden underscores Killigrew's masculinist poetic strength by echoing Pindar's own... | |
 | John Dryden - 2003 - 1000 pages
...unsoiled,0 Unmixed with foreign filth, and undefiled; Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child. 70 V Art she had none, yet wanted none; For nature did...adorn, That it seemed borrowed where 'twas only born. Her morals, too, were in her bosom bred, By great examples daily fed, What in the best of books, her... | |
 | John Dryden - 2002 - 612 pages
...unsoiled, Unmixed with foreign filth and l1mit-tiled; 70 Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child! Art she had none, yet wanted none, For nature did...treasures of her own, She might our boasted stores defy; 75 Such noble vigour did her verse adorn That it seemed borrowed where 'twas only born. Her morals... | |
 | 278 pages
...not share this quarrel. He uses it two or three times in his poems, as a formal piece of classicism. Art she had none, yet wanted none, For Nature did that Want supply. But it is outside his thought, and is hardly glanced at in his essays. This is striking, in a writer... | |
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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. 
