 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
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy, James Riddell, George William Clark - 1890 - 530 pagine
...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...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... | |
 | Anne Mozley - 1892 - 418 pagine
...reserves one excellence as unattainable, short of mellow maturity : " What could advancing age have given more It. might (what Nature never gives the young) Have 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... | |
 | John Dryden, William Dougal Christie - 1893 - 780 pagine
...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 pagine
...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 pagine
...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 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 lhe;-e, and wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.' To us... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1896 - 520 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 those, and wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.' To us... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1896 - 794 pagine
...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... | |
 | John Cann Bailey - 1900 - 330 pagine
...Nisus fell upon the slippery place, Whilst his young friend performed and won the race. O early ripe1 to thy abundant store What could advancing age have...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... | |
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