 | Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 pagine
...: . . The wits of Charles found easier ways to fame, Nor wished for Jonson 's art or Shakespeare's flame : Themselves they studied, as they felt they writ: Intrigue was plot, obscenity was wit. . . . The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please must please to live. "rologue... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1881 - 638 pagine
...lasting tomb. The wits of Charles found easier ways to fame, Nor wished for Jonson's art or Shakespeare's flame ; Themselves they studied, as they felt they...wit. Vice always found a sympathetic friend ; They pleased their age and did not aim to mend. Yet bards like these aspired to lasting praise, And proudly... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 632 pagine
...could praise. A mortal born, he met the general doom, But left, like Egypt's kings, a lasting tomb. Themselves they studied, as they felt they writ; Intrigue...wit. Vice always found a sympathetic friend ; They pleased their age and did not aim to mend. Yet bards like these aspired to lasting praise, And proudly... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 626 pagine
...the heart : Cold approbation gave the lingering bays, For those who durst not censure scarce could praise. A mortal born, he met the general doom, But left, like Egypt's kings, a lasting tomb. Themselves they studied, as they felt they writ ; Intrigue was plot, obscenity was wit. Vice always... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1881 - 632 pagine
...assailed the heart: Cold approbation gave the lingering bays, For those who durst not censure scarce could praise. A mortal born, he met the general doom, But left, like Egypt's kings, a lasting tomb. Themselves they studied, as they felt they writ; Intrigue was plot, obscenity was wit. Vice always... | |
 | Mowbray Walter Morris - 1882 - 424 pagine
...the heart : Cold Approbation gave the lingering bays, For those, who durst not censure, scarce could praise. A mortal born, he met the general doom, But...The wits of Charles found easier ways to fame, Nor wished for Jouson's art, or Shakespeare's flame, Themselves they studied, as they felt they writ ;... | |
 | Percy Fitzgerald - 1882 - 492 pagine
...the heart. Cold approbation gave the lingering bays ; For those who durst not censure scarce could praise. A mortal born, he met the general doom, But...The wits of Charles found easier ways to fame, Nor wished for Jonson's art, or Shakespeare's flame. Themselves they studied ; as they felt they writ ;... | |
 | Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald - 1882 - 486 pagine
...tomb. The wits of Charles found easier ways to fame, Nor wished for Jouson's art, or Shakespeare's flame. Themselves they studied ; as they felt they...wit. Vice always found a sympathetic friend ; They pleased their age, and did not aim to mend. Yet bards like these aspired to lasting praise, And proudly... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1884 - 348 pagine
...essay'd the heart. Cold approbation gave the lingering lays For those who durst not censure scarce could praise. A mortal born, he met the general doom But left, like Egypt's kings, a lasting tomb. EDMUND WALLER.—He added something to our elegance of diction, and something to our propriety of thought.... | |
 | 1885 - 686 pagine
...the heart : Cold approbation gave the lingering bays, For those who durst not censure scarce could praise. A mortal born, he met the general doom, But...The wits of Charles found easier ways to fame, Nor wished for Jonson's art or Shakespeare's flame; Themselves they studied, as they felt they writ; Intrigue... | |
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The wits of Charles found easier ways to fame, Nor wish'd for Jonson's art, or Shakspeare's flame. Themselves they studied; as they felt, they writ: Intrigue was plot, obscenity was wit. 
