 | Edward Arber - 1900 - 482 pagine
...the heart ! Cold Approbation gave the ling'ring Bays ; For those who durst not censure, scarce could praise ! A mortal born, he met the general doom ;...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... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1901 - 1080 pagine
...Cold approbation gave the lingering bays ; For those who durst not censure, scarce could praise. 774 pleased their age, and did not aim to mend. Yet bards like these aspired to lasting praise, And proudly... | |
 | E. J. Mathew - 1901 - 556 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 Shakspere's fame ; Themselves they studied ; as they felt they writ ; Intrigue... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1901 - 654 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 ;... | |
 | Edward Arber - 1901 - 350 pagine
...the heart! Cold Approbation gave the ling'ring 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. 112 SAMUEL JOHNSON. '•* It The Wits of CHARLES found easier ways to fame ; Nor wished for JONSON'S... | |
 | Jeannette Leonard Gilder - 1905 - 330 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...tomb. The wits of Charles found easier ways to fame, \or wish'd for Jonson's art, or Shakespeare's flame. Themselves they studied; as they felt, they writ:... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1905 - 528 pagine
...reign : — 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 530 pagine
...Prologue at the opening in 1747, written for him by Johnson, he had said of ' the wits of Charles ' : — 'Themselves they studied; as they felt, they writ ; Intrigue was plot, obscenity was wit. Vet bards like these aspir'd to. lasting praise, And proudly hop'd to pimp in future days. Their cause... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1906 - 628 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 ;... | |
 | Margaret Lynn - 1907 - 506 pagine
...bays, For those, who durst not censure, scarce could praise. A mortal born, he met the gen'ral doom, 15 But left, like Egypt's kings, a 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 writ ;... | |
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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. 
