 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1886 - 592 pages
...undertaken this arduous but necessary task, to lead them as it were by the hand, and step by step, the gentle down-hill way to the bathos; the bottom, the end, the central point, the nun plus ultra, of true modern poesy 1 When I consider (my dear countrymen)' the extent, fertility,... | |
 | Shiukichi Shigemi - Botanists - 1889 - 508 pages
...have undertaken this arduous but necssary task, to lead them as it were by the hand, and step by step, the gentle down-hill way to the Bathos ; — the bottom, the end, the central point, the ne plus ultra of true modern poesy!" His examples are numerous, and applied to many of the Figures... | |
 | Charles Augustus Maude Fennell, John Frederick Stanford - English language - 1891 - 868 pages
...(1830). [NED) 2. depth, lowest point, bottom. 1727 to lead them as it were by the hand, and step by step, the gentle downhill way to the Bathos; the bottom,...central point, the non plus ultra, of true modern Poesy: POPE, Art of Sinking, en. i. Wks., VoL VI. P- "65 (1757)*bathybius, sb. : coined fr. Gk. j3aflif,... | |
 | William Shepard Walsh - Curiosa - 1892 - 1114 pages
...have undertaken this arduous but necessary task to lead them as it were by the hand, and step by step the gentle down-hill way to the bathos ; the bottom,...the central point, the non plus ultra of true modern poesy !" He collected a number of amusing instances of the " art of sinking," as practised by his contemporaries.... | |
 | William S. Walsh - Curiosa - 1892 - 1116 pages
...have undertaken this arduous but necessary task to lead them as it were by the hand, and step by step the gentle down-hill way to the bathos; the bottom,...the central point, the non plus ultra of true modern poesy!" He collected a number of amusing instances of the " art of sinking/ 9 as practised by his contemporaries.... | |
 | William S. Walsh - Literary curiosa - 1909 - 1116 pages
...profound ; wherefore, considering, with no small grief, how many promising the hand, and step by step the gentle down-hill way to the bathos ; the bottom, the end, the central point, the non flus ultra of true modern poesy !" He collected a number of amusing instances of the " art of sinking,"... | |
 | William S. Walsh - Curiosa - 1909 - 1112 pages
...have undertaken this arduous but necessary task to lead them as it were by the hand, and step by step the gentle down-hill way to the bathos ; the bottom, the end, the central point, the nan plus ultra of true modern poesy !" He collected a number of amusing instances of the " art of sinking,"... | |
 | William Forbes Gray - English poetry - 1914 - 386 pages
...As for the lucubrations of the remaining Laureates, they remind one of Swift's satiric words about " the gentle down-hill way to the bathos, the bottom,...central point, the non plus ultra, of true modern poesy." But while the Laureateship is largely a record of mediocre poetry, and witnesses to the indestructible... | |
 | William S. Walsh - Literary Criticism - 1925 - 1118 pages
...but necessary task to lead them as it were by the hand, and step by step the gentle down-hill way tu the bathos ; the bottom, the end, the central point, the non plus ultra of true modern poesy !" He collected a number of amusing instances of the " art of sinking," as practised by his contemporaries.... | |
 | John E. Sitter - Verse satire, English - 1971 - 146 pages
...declares his intention of leading the reader "step by step" down to "the Bathos"— which he calls "the Bottom, the End, the Central Point, the non plus ultra, of true Modern Poesie"— he is pointing the way to a logically upside-down world.16 Flashes of personal retaliation... | |
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I have undertaken this arduous but necessary task, to lead them as it were by the hand, and step by step, the gentle downhill way to the Bathos; the bottom, the end, the central point, the non plus ultra of true modern poesy! 
