 | Henry James Nicoll - 1886 - 478 Seiten
...sweetness of a Scotch tune in it, which is natural and pleasing." Waller went further : — " Chancer 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." Chaucer himself perceived that he lived... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - 1889 - 406 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...can only boast, — The glory of his numbers lost I Years have defaced his matchless strain,— And \et he did not sing in vain I The beauties which... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - 1889 - 636 Seiten
...rude sweetness of a Scotch tune in it,' which is natural and pleasing." Waller went further : — " 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." Chaucer himself perceived that he lived... | |
 | Charles John Smith - 1890 - 802 Seiten
...remained for some weeks submerged." " Poets thai lasting marble seek Must carve in Latin or in Oréele. We write in sand, our language grows, And like the tide our work o'erftoics" \\ ALLER. SUBMERGE (Lnt. submergcre) denotes that the inundation has entirely drowned the... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson, Coulson Kernahan - 1891 - 452 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...boast,— The glory of his numbers lost! Years have defaced his matchless strain,— And yet he did not sing in vain I This was the generous poet's scope;... | |
 | Thomas R. Lounsbury - 1891 - 528 Seiten
...superiority of the classic tongues as a means for reaching the generations to come. Waller assures us that " Poets that lasting marble seek Must carve in Latin...language grows, And like the tide, our work o'erflows." ' 1 These lines were first included were probably written considerably in the third edition of Waller's... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1892 - 316 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...boast, The glory of his numbers lost ! Years have defac't his matchless strain, And yet he did not sing in vain. The beauties which adorn'd that age,... | |
 | Estelle Davenport Adams - 1894 - 432 Seiten
...; Nor ever shall their Labours be forlorn. BARNFIELD : Sonnet II, Against the Dispraisrrs of Poetry 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 : Of English Verse Old Chaucer,... | |
 | Godfrey Davies - 1959 - 504 Seiten
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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. 
