 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.  Elements of Geology - Seite 260von Sir Charles Lyell - 1838 - 543 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1881 - 408 Seiten
...as that dies, our language fails. ' 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.' How his misgivings, which assume that the rate of change would continue what it had been, have been... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1885 - 530 Seiten
...brings a well-built palace6 down. 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. Here is an able and well-read man, expressing a fear, almost at the beginning of the eighteenth century,... | |
 | United States. Office of Education, Isaac Edwards Clarke - 1885 - 1122 Seiten
...daily changing tongue t * • * m * 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'erflowe." PUBLIC EDUCATION-INCREASE OF WEALTH IN THE UNITED STATES. Publie education in the United... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - 1889 - 406 Seiten
...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, like the tide, our work o'erflows. Chaucer his sense can only boast, — The glory of his numbers lost I Years have defaced his matchless... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Thomas R. Lounsbury - 1891 - 530 Seiten
...to come. Waller assures us that " 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." ' 1 These lines were first included were probably written considerably in the third edition of Waller's... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson, Coulson Kernahan - 1891 - 452 Seiten
...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, like the tide, our work o'erflows. Chaucer his sense can only boast,— The glory of his numbers lost! Years have defaced his matchless... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1892 - 316 Seiten
...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, like the tide, our work o'erflows. Chaucer his sense can only boast, The glory of his numbers lost ! Years have defac't his matchless... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1896 - 136 Seiten
...Waller's poem, Of English Verse : — 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. Chaucer his sense can only boast, The glory of his numbers lost — Years have defaced his matchless... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1896 - 112 Seiten
...Latin. So Waller Of English Verse : " 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. " 484. So when the faithful pencil. "Nothing," says Warton, commenting on these lines, "was ever more... | |
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