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... Conversations at Cambridge - Pagina 193di Robert Aris Willmott - 1836 - 292 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
| John Dryden - 1882 - 492 pagine
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| Matthew Arnold - 1882 - 524 pagine
...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 the numbers of thy native tongue ; But satire needs not 1he^e, and wit will shine Through the harsh cadtnce of a rugged line.' To us... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1884 - 454 pagine
...help copying another passage, notwithstanding some incongruity of metaphor in the last couplet : " Oh, early ripe ! to thy abundant store What could advancing...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." In publishing... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1884 - 450 pagine
...help copying another passage, notwithstanding some incongruity of metaphor in the last couplet : " Oh, early ripe ! to thy abundant store What could advancing...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." In publishing... | |
| Lucan - 1887 - 548 pagine
...Lucan's verse : and, though the cases are not quite analogous, he reminds us of Oldham in Dryden's lines O early ripe ! to thy abundant store what could advancing...young) have taught the numbers of thy native tongue : but satire needs not those, and wit will shine through the harsh cadence of a nigged line. A noble... | |
| Lucan - 1887 - 546 pagine
...Lucan's verse : and, though the cases are not quite analogous, he reminds us of Oldham in Dryden's lines O early ripe ! to thy abundant store what could advancing...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. A noble... | |
| Walter Scott - 1887 - 674 pagine
...as an apology : " O early ripe ! to thy abundant store AVhat could advancing age have added more 1 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 line." celebrates... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1889 - 460 pagine
...help copying another passage, notwithstanding some incongruity of metaphor in the last couplet : " Oh, early ripe ! to thy abundant store What could advancing...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." In publishing... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1871 - 524 pagine
...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... | |
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