| Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - 1858 - 238 Seiten
...picture. Perhaps his special gift was a certain neatness of phrase, as in the following lines : — Poets that lasting marble seek, Must carve in Latin,...language grows, And, like the tide, our work o'erflows. And in the art of paying compliments he won, and deserved, the laurel. JUNE 30™. SPENT ten minutes... | |
| Richard Chenevix Trench - 1858 - 252 Seiten
...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." Such were his misgivings as to the future, assuming that the rate of change would continue what it... | |
| Richard Chenevix Trench - 1859 - 248 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." Such were his misgivings as to the future, assuming that the rate of change would continue what it... | |
| Henry Reed - 1860 - 336 Seiten
...seventeenth century — Waller — thus deplores the wrong done by the hand of Time to the early poets : — "We write in sand; our language grows, And like the tide our work overflows. Chaucer his sense can only boast, — The glory of his numbers lost; Years have defaced... | |
| 1864 - 1238 Seiten
...daily-changing tongue ;" but he attributed the evil, not to slang, but to the natural growth of the language : Poets that lasting marble seek Must carve in Latin...language grows, And, like the tide, our work o'erflows. In the present day, slang is assimilated with lamentable facility. It enters largely into the composition... | |
| Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - 1864 - 362 Seiten
...historical picture. Perhaps his special gift was a certain neatness of phrase, as in the following lines : "Poets that lasting marble seek, Must carve in Latin,...sand, our language grows, And, like the tide, our work o'erfiows." And in the art of paying compliments he won, and deserved, the laurel. THE RAINBOW. 207... | |
| 1864 - 632 Seiten
...slang, but to the natural growth of the language : Poets that lasting marble seek Must carve in Lutin or in Greek : We write in sand ; our language grows, And, like the tide, our work o'erflows. Tn the present day, slang is assimilated with lamentable facility. It enters largely into the composition... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1865 - 594 Seiten
...general state of feeling, 57 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 discreditable insensibility the enthusiastic admiration which... | |
| Sir Charles Lyell - 1866 - 910 Seiten
...metamorphic Tocks. The poet Waller, when lamenting over the antiquated style of Chaucer, complains that — We write in sand, our language grows, And. like the tide, our wort o'erflows. But the reverse is true in geology ; for here it is our work which continually outgrows... | |
| Frederick Locker-Lampson - 1867 - 432 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 ! The beauties which adorntd that... | |
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