 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - 1867 - 410 Seiten
...stone, Soon brings a well-built palace down. Poets, that lasting marble seek, Must carve in Latin or'in Greek : We write in sand : our language grows, And,...boast, — The glory of his numbers lost ! Years have defaced his matchless strain, — And yet he did not sing in vain ! The beauties which adorn'd that... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1868 - 348 Seiten
...daily changing tongue ? While they are new, envy prevails, And as that dies, our language fails. ' Poets that lasting marble seek, Must carve in Latin...language grows, And like the tide our work o'erflows.' How his misgivings, which assume that the rate of change would continue what it had been, have been... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1863 - 550 Seiten
...in the following verses : — ' Who can hope his lines should long Last in a daily changing tongue ? Poets that lasting marble seek Must carve in Latin or in Greek : We write on sand, our language grows, And, like the tide, our work o'erflows.' Probably the chief causes of... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1868 - 340 Seiten
...shall with the world remain : Both bound together, live or die, The verses and the prophecy. ***** Chaucer his sense can only boast, The glory of his numbers lost ! Years have defaced his matchless strain, And yet he did not sing in vain. — WALLER. Oh ! 'tis a sleeping poet... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1870 - 352 Seiten
...daily changing tongue ? While they are new, envy prevails, And as that dies, our language fails. ' Poets that lasting marble seek, Must carve in Latin...language grows, And like the tide our work o'erflows.' How his misgivings, which assume that the rate of change would continue what it had been, have been... | |
 | Charles John Smith - 1871 - 630 Seiten
...its banks, and the country far and wide was inundated, so that it remained for some weeks submerged." "Poets that lasting marble seek Must carve in Latin...sand, our language grows, And like the tide our work o'cr/îows." ' Waller. SUBMERGE (Lat. stibmergere, to drown) denotes that the inundation has entirely... | |
 | James Brodie - 1873 - 162 Seiten
...in a daily changing tongue ? While they are new, envy prevails, And as that dies our language fails. Poets that lasting marble seek Must carve in Latin...language grows, And, like the tide, our work o'erflows." In consequence, however, of the popularity of Shakespeare and other writers of that time, and more... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 Seiten
...lose half the praise they should have got Could it be known what they discreetly blot. WALLER. 414 415 Poets that lasting marble seek Must carve in Latin...language grows, And, like the tide, our work o'erflows. WALLER : On English Verse. Poets may boast, as safely vain, Their works shall with the world remain... | |
 | THOMAS ARNOLD - 1876 - 312 Seiten
...indebted to Mr. Hales for the following apposite quotation from Waller's poem, Of English Verse:— Poets that lasting marble seek Must carve in Latin...boast, The glory of his numbers lost — Years have defaced his matchless strain, And yet he did not sing in vain. been written of the works of Sir Joshua... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 840 Seiten
...matter may betray their art: Time, if we use ill-chosen stone, Soon brings a well-built palace down. dcfuc'd his matchless strain, And yet he did not sing in vain. The beauties, which adom'd thai age,... | |
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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. 
