 | Isaac Disraeli - 1841 - 428 pages
...enlightened Europe itself, amid the revolving ages of time, is but of yesterday. How " that was performed in our tongue, which may be compared or preferred, either to insolent Greece or haughty Rome,"* becomes a tale in the history of the human mind. In the history of an insular race, and in a site so... | |
 | 1841 - 632 pages
...though unfortunate successor, is he who hath jlllr.it up all numbers; and performed that in our own tongue which may be compared or preferred either to insolent Greece or haughty Rome ; in short, within his view, and about his time, were all the wits born that could honour a language... | |
 | Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) - 1842 - 104 pages
...either in their sermons they flatter, or strive to shew their own eloquence. XV. HlS OPINIONS OF VERSES. That he wrott all his first in prose, for so his Master,...Mars, Minerva, Apollo, and " the Sisters who dwell on Parnassus," to Lament for him who duelie serv'd you all. This sonnet was not only translated into... | |
 | 1853 - 298 pages
...imitated the description of a night from Bonifonius his Vigilium Veneris. when he was provoked. But bis learned and able (though unfortunate) successor is...preferred either to insolent Greece, or haughty Rome." * King James, in his youth, wrote a sonnet on Sir Philip Sidney's death, in which he calls upon Mars,... | |
 | Thomas Amyot, John Payne Collier, William Durrant Cooper, Alexander Dyce, Barron Field, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright - 1853 - 510 pages
...when he was provoked. But his learned and able (though unfortunate) successor is be who hath 611ed up all numbers, and performed that in our tongue,...preferred either to insolent Greece, or haughty Rome." 1 King James, in his youth, wrote a sonnet on Sir Philip Sidney's death, in which he calls upon Mars,... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1855 - 434 pages
...enlightened Europe itself, amid the revolving ages of time, is but of yesterday. How " that was performed in our tongue, which may be compared or preferred, either to insolent Greece 01 haughty Rome,"* becomes a tale in the history of the human mind. In the history of an insular race,... | |
 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - 1870 - 534 pages
...comparison Of all, that insolent Greece, or haughtie Bome Sent forth," etc. Of Bacon he writes, — " He who hath filled up all numbers, and performed that...preferred either to insolent Greece or haughty Rome." Of course the heretics have not been slow to avail themselves of this resemblance. They are welcome... | |
 | JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. A.M. - 1870 - 604 pages
...applies to him in prose the same commendation which he gave Shakespeare in verse, saying, that he " performed that in our tongue which may be compared...preferred either to insolent Greece or haughty Rome" and he adds this pregnant sentence : " In short, within his view and about his time were all the wits... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1898 - 396 pages
...applies to him in prose the same commendation which he gave Shakespeare in verse, saying, that he " performed that in our tongue which may be compared...preferred either to insolent Greece or haughty Rome "; and he adds this pregnant sentence : " In short, within his view and about his time were all the... | |
 | Clement Mansfield Ingleby - 1874 - 402 pages
...for the comparison " &c., is almost repeated verbatim in Jonson's Timber, where he points to Bacon as "he who hath filled up all numbers, and performed...tongue which may be compared or preferred either to infolent Greece, or haughty Rome." It is indeed as applicable to Bacon's prose as to Shakespeare's... | |
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But his learned and able (though unfortunate) successor, is he who hath filled up all numbers, and performed that in our tongue, which may be compared or preferred either to insolent Greece, or haughty Rome. 
