 | Houghton Mifflin Company - 1997 - 276 Seiten
...are chronic. Aren't you my new neighbor? Great! Let's go! 2. The first word of each line in a poem: Poets that lasting marble seek Must carve in Latin or in Greek. — Edmund Waller 3. The first word of a direct quotation unless it is closely woven into the sentence:... | |
 | Sean Kelsey - 1997 - 272 Seiten
...mak'st his song to vail it's Bonnet to our English Tongue'.43 In the 1640s the poet Waller wrote that 'Poets that lasting marble seek / Must carve in Latin or in Greek', and that he who wrote in English built on shifting sands. Not until the eighteenth century and the... | |
 | Peter Kemp - 1997 - 512 Seiten
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 | Sandie Byrne - 1998 - 264 Seiten
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 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 Seiten
...'How can I know what I think till 1 see what I say?' WALLER Edmund 1606-1687 12197 'Of English Verse' hey swayed about upon a rocking horse. And thought it Pegasus. 12198 'On a Girdle' That which her slender waist confined Shall now my joyful temples bind; No monarch... | |
 | Kevin Hart - 1999 - 254 Seiten
...language was in such disarray? The question niggled Edmund Waller in his lyric 'Of English Verse': Poets that lasting marble seek, Must carve in Latin,...sand, our language grows, And like the tide, our work o'erflows.24 The response to this o'erflowing took two related forms. Notables from the mid-seventeenth... | |
 | David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - 2000 - 604 Seiten
...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. Edmund Waller, 1645, 'Of English Verse' 7:71 Numerous local causes, such as a new country, new associations... | |
 | Robert Cummings - 2000 - 586 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. 
