...verses and the prophecy. * « » • 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. Waller — On English VerseMCCLVm. Up in large quantities. An essay- writer must practise in the chemical...

...instability of the English tongue : — " 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." ledge and inquiry has been indefinitely enlarged. The boundaries of the old sciences have advanced....

...brings a well-built palace down. Poets, that lasting marble seek, Must carve in Latin or in Greek : on Chaucer his sense can only boast, The glory of his numbers lost ! Years have defac'd his matchless...

...And 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." We cannot, however, expect any language to remain for long in the same state ; new words must be ever...

...brings a well-built palace down. Poets, that lasting marble seek, Must carve in Latin or in Greek : where ; At least in vain, for they shall find thce mute. Chaucer his sense can only boast, The glory of his numbers lost! years have defac'd his matchless strain,...

...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...

...instability of tie English tongue : — " 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." ledge and inquiry has been indefinitely enlarged. The boundaries of the old sciences have advanced....

...instability of the English tongue : — " 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 overflows." ledge and inquiry has been indefinitely enlarged. The boundaries of the old sciences have...

...instability of t:e English tongue : — " Poets that lasting marble seek, Must carve in Latin cr in Greek : We write in sand, our language grows, And like the tide our work o'erfluws." ledge and inquiry has been indefinitely enlarged. The boundaries of the old sciences have...

...beautifully expressed by Waller, " 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." Even on the few Scottish writers who wisely dissented from this doctrine, and foresaw the glorious...