 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...  The Poetical Works of John Dryden - Sida 174efter John Dryden - 1909 - 1056 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | John Dryden - 1874 - 740 sidor
...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... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 524 sidor
...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...numbers of thy native tongue ; But satire needs not these, and wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.' To us there is much besides... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 524 sidor
...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...numbers of thy native tongue ; But satire needs not these, and wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.' To us there is much besides... | |
 | John Dryden - 1882 - 492 sidor
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 | Matthew Arnold - 1882 - 524 sidor
...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...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 there is much besides... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1883 - 518 sidor
...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...tongue; But satire needs not those, and wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.' To us there is much besides defects of form to overlook... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1884 - 454 sidor
...help copying another passage, notwithstanding some incongruity of metaphor in the last couplet : " Oh, early ripe ! to thy abundant store What could advancing...tongue ; But satire needs not those, and wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line." In publishing his works, Oldham declined to comply with... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1884 - 450 sidor
...help copying another passage, notwithstanding some incongruity of metaphor in the last couplet : " Oh, early ripe ! to thy abundant store What could advancing...tongue ; But satire needs not those, and wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line." In publishing his works, Oldham declined to comply with... | |
 | Lucan - 1887 - 548 sidor
...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...tongue : but satire needs not those, and wit will shine through the harsh cadence of a nigged line. A noble error and but seldom made, when poets are by too... | |
 | Lucan - 1887 - 546 sidor
...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...tongue : but satire needs not those, and wit will shine through the harsh cadence of a rugged line. A noble error and but seldom made, when poets are by too... | |
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