 | John Aikin - 1826 - 840 Seiten
...matter may betray their art : Time, if we use ill-chosen stone, Soon brings a well-built palace down. Poets, that lasting marble seek, Must carve in Latin...matchless strain, And yet he did not sing in vain. The beauties, which adom'd that age, The shining subjects of his rage, Hoping they should immortal... | |
 | James I (King of Scotland) - 1827 - 304 Seiten
...last century, may, with equal force, be applied to the poetical remains of King James I. of Scotland: Poets, that lasting marble seek, Must carve in Latin...have defac'd his matchless strain, And yet he did not write in vain. Upon the whole: If the present publication, which has been the amusement of leisure... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 Seiten
...shall with the world remain Both bound together live or die, The verses and the prophecy. * « » • Poets that lasting marble seek, Must carve in Latin...language grows, And like the tide, our work o'erflows. Waller — On English VerseMCCLVm. Up in large quantities. An essay- writer must practise in the chemical... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 Seiten
...shall with the world remain Both bound together live or die, The verses and the prophecy. * * * ' * Poets that lasting marble seek, Must carve in Latin...language grows, And like the tide, our work o'erflows. Waller— On' English Verse. MCCLVHL The ordinary writers of morality prescribe to their readers after... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1830 - 484 Seiten
...general state of feeling, Waller, the poet, who died the year before the Revolution, tells us that " Poets, that lasting marble seek, Must carve in Latin or in Greek." It is delightful to contrast with this most discreditable insensibility, the enthusiastic admiration... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1830 - 440 Seiten
...general state of feeling, Waller, the poet, who died the year before the Revolution, tells us that " Poets, that lasting marble seek, Must carve in Latin or in Greek." • . . It is delightful to contrast with this most discreditable insensibility, the enthusiastic admiration... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1848 - 590 Seiten
...two centuries ago, an English poet thus complained of the instability of the English tongue : — " Poets that lasting marble seek, Must carve in Latin...language grows, And like the tide our work o'erflows." ledge and inquiry has been indefinitely enlarged. The boundaries of the old sciences have advanced.... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1838 - 582 Seiten
...the case, and to imagine that these last never pass, as they frequently do, into metamorphic rocks. We write in sand, our language grows, And, like the tide, our work o'erflows ; But the reverse is true in geology ; for here it is our work which continually outgrows the language.... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 Seiten
...matter may betray their art : Time, if we use ill-chosen stone, Soon brings a well-built palace down. n < 4 < 4 96 The beauties, which adorn'd that age, The shining subjects of his rage, Hoping they should immortal... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 Seiten
...matter may betray iheir art: Time, if we use ill-chosen slone, Soon brings a well-built palace down. more wilh pomp and sacrifice Shalt be inquir'd at...At least in vain, for they shall find thce mute. The beauties, which adorn'd that age. The shining subjects of his rage, Hoping they should immortal... | |
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Poets that lasting marble seek Must carve in Latin or in Greek, We write in sand, our language grows, And like the tide our work o'erflows. 
