 | John Dryden - 1866 - 346 pàgines
...arrive. Thus Nisus fell upon the slippery place, Whilst his young friend perform'd, and won the race. O early ripe ! to thy abundant store What could advancing...more ? It might (what nature never gives the young) 1 Farewell, too little] This short elegy is finished with the most exquisite art and skill. Not an... | |
 | John Dryden - 1866 - 348 pàgines
...arrive. Thus Nisus fell upon the slippery place, Whilst his young friend perform'd, and won the race. 10 O early ripe! to thy abundant store What could advancing age have added more ? V. 1. Farewell, too little] This short elegy is finished with the most exquisite art and skill. Not... | |
 | John Dryden - 1867 - 556 pàgines
...Thug Niaus fell upon the slippery place, Whilst his young friend perfonn'd, and won the race. '" Oh - 1 It might (what nature never gives the young) Have taught the numbers of thy native tongue. But satire... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 pàgines
...Thus Nisus fell upon the slippery place, Whilst his young friend performed, and won the race. 10 Oh early ripe! to thy abundant store What could advancing...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 error, and but seldom... | |
 | Walter Scott, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William) Turner - 1869 - 486 pàgines
...dedicated to his memory, alludes to this deficiency, and seems to admit the subject as an apology : — " 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." Yet the apology which he admitted... | |
 | 1869 - 488 pàgines
...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 ragged line." In publishing his works, OUhara... | |
 | John Dryden - 1897 - 764 pàgines
...arrive. Thus Nisus fell upon the slippery place, Whilst his young friend performed and won the race, t 1 O early ripe ! to thy abundant store What could advancing...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1871 - 524 pàgines
...Pope in his youth refuted an axiom which Dryden propounded in his lines to the memory of Old ham. 0 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 this, and wit will shine Through the hank cadence... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1873 - 780 pàgines
...help copying another passage, notwithstanding some incongruity of metaphor in the last couplet: " Oh, early ripe! to thy abundant store What could advancing...taught the numbers of thy native tongue; But satire necds not those, and wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line." In publishing his... | |
 | John Dryden - 1874 - 740 pàgines
...Thus Nisus fell upon the slippery place, Whilst his young friend perform'd, and won the race. 10 0 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 those, and wit will shine Through the harsh cadence... | |
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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... 
