 | Edmund Gosse - 1893 - 364 pages
...You cannot expect a creamy smoothness while the act of vinous fermentation is proceeding. Wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line ;...seldom made, When poets are by too much force betray' d ; Thy generous fruits, though gathered ere their prime, Still show a quickness, and maturing time 'But... | |
 | John Dryden, William Dougal Christie - 1893 - 780 pages
...native tongue. J But satire needs not those, and wit will shine 1$ Through the harsh cadence of a nigged line. A noble error, and but seldom made. When poets are by too much force betrayed. * John Oldham, the author of the " Satires on the Jesuits," died in 1681, at the early age... | |
 | John Cann Bailey - 1900 - 330 pages
...gives the young) Have taught the numbers of thy native tongue. But satire needs not those, and wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line....but seldom made, When poets are by too much force betrayed. Thy generous fruits, though gathered ere their prime, Still showed a quickness ; and maturing... | |
 | W. Thomas - 1901 - 688 pages
...Dryd-M, dans un hommage ému rendu à sa mémoire, lui reproche seulement la rudesse du vers «... thé harsh cadence of a rugged line, A noble error and but seldom made, When poets are by too much force betrayed. » 2. Pour Pope [Spence's Anecdotes, op. cit., p. 411 Rochester tient le milieu entre Oldham... | |
 | W. Thomas - 1901 - 688 pages
...Drydj.j, dans un hommage ému rendu à sa mémoire, lui reproche seulement la rudesse du vers «... thé harsh cadence of a rugged line, A noble error and but seldom made, When poets are by too mnch force betrayed. » 2. Pour Pope [Spence's Anecdotes, op. cit., p. 411 Rochester tient le milieu... | |
 | W. Thomas - 1901 - 690 pages
...Drydj.j, dans un hommage ému rendu à sa mémoire, lui reproche seulement la rudesse du vers «... thé harsh cadence of a rugged line, A noble error and but seldom inade, When poets are by too much force betrayed. » 2. Pour Pope [Spence's Anecdotes, op. cit., p.... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1903 - 512 pages
...gives the young) Have taught the numbers of thy native tongue. But satire needs not those, and wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line,...but seldom made, When poets are by too much force betrayed. Thy generous fruits, though gathered ere their prime, Still showed a quickness ; and maturing... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1903 - 504 pages
...gives the young) Have taught the numbers of thy native tongue. But satire needs not those, and wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line,...but seldom made, When poets are by too much force betrayed. Thy generous fruits, though gathered ere their prime, Still showed a quickness ; and maturing... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - 1909 - 892 pages
...gives the young) Have taught the numbers of thy native tongue But satire needs not those, and wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line....but seldom made, When poets are by too much force betrayed. Thy generous fruits, though gathered ere their prime, Still showed a quickness; and maturing... | |
 | John Dryden - 1909 - 1112 pages
...Have taught the numbers of thy native tongue. But satire needs not those, and wit will shine Thro' the harsh cadence of a rugged line: A noble error,...but seldom made, When poets are by too much force betray*d. Thy generous fruits, tho' gather'd ere" their prime, Still shew'da quickness; and maturing... | |
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O early ripe! to thy abundant store What could advancing age have added more? It might (what nature never gives the young) Have taught the numbers of thy native tongue. 
