 Not mine, not mine (O muse forbid) the boon Of borrowed notes, the mock-bird's modish tune, The jingling medley of purloined conceits, Out-babying Wordsworth and out-glittering Keats ; Where all the airs of patchwork pastoral chime To drown the ears in...  The History of "Punch" - Page 344by Marion Harry Spielmann - 1895 - 592 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Hosea Ballou, George Homer Emerson, Thomas Baldwin Thayer, Richard Eddy - Universalism - 1847 - 444 pages
...expresses itself thus, " Not mine, not mine (O Muse forbid !) the boon Of borrowed notes, the mock bird's modish tune, The jingling medley of purloined conceits,...Where all the airs of patchwork pastoral chime To drowsy ears, in Tennysonian rhyme." The New Timon is a poetic novel. The story is intensely interesting,... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - English poetry - 1846 - 228 pages
...wins, I claim ; No tawdry grace shall womanize my pen ! Ev'n in a love-song, man should write for men ! Not mine, not mine, (0 Muse forbid !) the boon Of...the mock-bird's modish tune, The jingling medley of purloin'd conceits, Outbabying Wordsworth, and outglittering Keates, Where all the airs of patchwork-pastoral... | |
 | Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1846 - 228 pages
...grace shall womanize my pen ! E'vn in a love-song, man should write for men! Not mine, not mine, (O Muse forbid !) the boon Of borrowed notes, the mock-bird's modish tune, The jingling medley of purloin'd conceits, Outbabying Wordsworth, and outglittering Keatcs, Where all the airs of patchwork-pastoral... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1846 - 228 pages
...grace shall womanize my pen! Ev'n in a love-song, man should write for men! Not mine, not mine, (O Muse forbid!) the boon Of borrowed notes, the mock-bird's modish tune, The jingling medley of purloin'd conceits, Outbabying Wordsworth, and outglittering Keates, Where all the airs of patchwork-pastoral... | |
 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - English fiction - 1858 - 422 pages
...readers will not disapprove our presenting to them the following sample of its satiric strength: — "Not mine, not mine (0 Muse forbid ! ) the boon Of...pastoral chime To drown the ears in Tennysonian rhyme ! Am I enthralled by the sterile rule, The formal pupil of a frigid school, If to old laws my Spartan... | |
 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - English fiction - 1858 - 594 pages
...mine, not mine (O Muse forbid ! ) the boon Of borrowed notes, the mock- bird's modish time, Thejingling medley of purloined conceits, Out-babying Wordsworth,...pastoral chime To drown the ears in Tennysonian rhyme ! Am I enthralled by the sterile rule, The formal pupil of a frigid school, If to old laws my Spartan... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 pages
...grace shall womanize my pen ! Even in a love-song, man should write for men ! Not mine, not mine (O Muse, forbid !) the boon Of borrowed notes, the mock-bird's...Wordsworth, and outglittering Keats, Where all the airs of patchworktpastoral chime To drowsy ears in Tennysonian rhyme ! Am I inthralled but by the sterile rule,... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1872 - 608 pages
...well known to be the work of the author of " Pelham," these lines occur: — "Not mine, not mine(O, Muse forbid !), the boon Of borrowed notes, the mockbird's...schoolmiss Alfred vent her chaste delight On 'darling little rooms, so warm and light;' Chant ' I'm a-weary' in infectious strain. And catch the ' blue fly... | |
 | James De Mille - English language - 1878 - 584 pages
...following extracts will serve as examples of this kind of poetry : "NEW TIMON." " Not mine, not mine (O Muse, forbid !) the boon Of borrowed notes, the mockbird's...Wordsworth, and outglittering Keats ; Where all the airs of patchwork-pastoral chime To drowsy ears in Tennysonian rhyme. Let School-miss Alfred vent her chaste... | |
 | Walter Hamilton - Poets laureate - 1879 - 346 pages
...in " The New Timon " ran as follows : — " Not mine, not mine (0 muse forbid) the boon Of borrow'd notes, the mock-bird's modish tune, The jingling medley...school-miss Alfred vent her chaste delight On ' darling little rooms so warm and light ; ' Chant ' I'm a-weary ' in infectious strain, And catch ' the blue... | |
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