 | John Dryden - 1866 - 346 pages
...JW Have taught the numbers of thy native tongue. But satire needs not those, and wit will shine 15 Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line. A noble...but seldom made, When poets are by too much force betray'd. Thy generous fruits, tho' gather'd ere their prime, Still show'da quickness ; and maturing... | |
 | John Dryden - 1867 - 556 pages
...young) Have taught the numbers of thy native tongue. But satire needs not those, and wit will shine ls Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line. A noble...but seldom made, When poets are by too much force betray'd. Thy generous fruits, though gather'd ere their prune, Still show'da quickness ; and maturing... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 pages
...young) Have taught the numbers of thy native tongue. But satire needs not those, and wit will shine 15 Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line. A noble...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... | |
 | 1870 - 464 pages
...young) Have taught the numbers of thy native tongue. But Satire needs not those, and wit will shine 15 Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line. A noble...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... | |
 | 1870 - 462 pages
...native tongue. But Satire needs not those, and wit will shine 15 Through the harsh cadence of a n1gged line. A noble error, and 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 - 1897 - 764 pages
...young) Have taught the numbers of thy native tongue, t But satire needs not those, and wit will shine 1 Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line. A noble...but seldom made, When poets are by too much force betrayed. t jtneis, v. 328. j The word tininfcrs in thi> line is unwarrantably changed into smoothness... | |
 | John Dryden - 1874 - 740 pages
...the young) Have taught the smoothness of thy native tongue. But satire needs not those, and wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line....made, When poets are by too much force betray 'd. 1 ' Mr. Oldham : ' John Oldhain, the satirist, died of the small-pox in his thirty-first year, 1C83.... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1885 - 534 pages
...Tom Brown goes the length to impute our author's qualification of his praise of Oldham to the maligA noble error, and 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... | |
 | Lucan - 1887 - 548 pages
...native tongue : but satire needs not those, and wit will shine through the harsh cadence of a nigged line. A noble error and but seldom made, when poets are by too much force betrayed. (c) Too sparing use of elision. In Vergil's hands elision9 was a powerful rhythmic appliance... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy, James Riddell, George William Clark - 1890 - 522 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... | |
| |
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. 
