 | William Cullen Bryant - 1889 - 460 pàgines
...help copying another passage, notwithstanding some incongruity of metaphor in the last couplet : " Oh, early ripe ! to thy abundant store What could advancing...numbers of thy native tongue ; But satire needs not those, and wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line." In publishing his works, Oldham... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1871 - 524 pàgines
...Pope in his youth refuted au axiom which Dryden propounded in his lines to the memory of Old ham. 0 early ripe ! to thy abundant store What could advancing...It might, what nature never gives the young, Have tanght the smoothness of thy native tongue. But satire needs not this, and wit will shine Through the... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy, James Riddell, George William Clark - 1890 - 530 pàgines
...arrive. thus Nisus fell upon the slippery place, whilst his young friend performed and won the race. o early ripe, to thy abundant store what could advancing...numbers of thy native tongue. but satire needs not those, and wit will shine through the harsh cadence of a rugged line. a noble error and but seldom... | |
 | Anne Mozley - 1892 - 418 pàgines
...reserves one excellence as unattainable, short of mellow maturity : " What could advancing age have given more It. might (what Nature never gives the young)...taught the numbers of thy native tongue ; But satire ueeda not these, and wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line." Everybody desires... | |
 | John Dryden, William Dougal Christie - 1893 - 780 pàgines
...arrive. Thus Nisus fell upon the slippery place, Whilst his young friend performed and won the race.t 10 O early ripe ! to thy abundant store What could advancing...young) Have taught the numbers of thy native tongue. J But satire needs not those, and wit will shine 1$ Through the harsh cadence of a nigged line. A noble... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 462 pàgines
...years at the date of his death, and Dryden's couplet about Oldham has been aptly applied to him: nO early ripe ! to thy abundant store What could advancing age have added roore?" Of the Rowley poems, the authorship of which no one doubis to be due to Chatterton, the principal... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1895 - 314 pàgines
...more inviting subject. His metre and rhyme frequently stand in need of Dryden's generous apology : ' O early ripe ! to thy abundant store What could advancing...what Nature never gives the young, Have taught the smoothness of thy native tongue. But satire needs not these, and wit will shine Through the harsh cadence... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1895 - 530 pàgines
...and even this he was ready himself to overrule. Had Oldham lived longer, Dryden wrote, advancing age 'might (what Nature never gives the young) Have taught...numbers of thy native tongue; But satire needs not lhe;-e, and wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.' To us there is much besides... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1896 - 520 pàgines
...and even this he was ready himself to overrule. Had Oldham lived longer, Dryden wrote, advancing age 'might (what Nature never gives the young) Have taught...numbers of thy native tongue ; But satire needs not those, and wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.' To us there is much besides... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1896 - 794 pàgines
...days had seen. DRYDEN. Secure these golden early joys That youth unsour'd with sorrow bears. DRYDEN. O early ripe ! to thy abundant store What could advancing age have added more ? DRYDEN. Fair, sweet, and young, receive a prize Reserved for your victorious eyes : From crowds whom... | |
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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. But satire needs not those, and wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged... 
