 | John Oldham - Controversial literature - 1703 - 624 pages
...flippery place, (Race. While his young Friend performed and won the O early ripe ! to thy abundant ftore What could advancing Age have added more ? It might...Have taught the numbers of thy native Tongue. But Satyr needs not thofe, and Wit will fhine Through the harfh cadence of a rugged line. A noble Error... | |
 | William Walsh - English poetry - 1721 - 392 pages
...Place, While his young Friend perform'd, and won the * (Race. O early ripe! to thy abundant Store, What could advancing Age have added more? It might...Have taught the Numbers of thy Native Tongue. But Satyr needs not Thofe, and Wit will mine Thro' the harm Cadence of a rugged Line. ' .f A npble Error,... | |
 | Bibliography - 1776 - 568 pages
...place, While his young friend perform 'd and won the race» О early ripe ! to thy abundant ftore XV hat could advancing age have added more ? It might, what...Have taught the numbers of thy native tongue. \ But fatire needs not thofe, and wit will ihine Thro' the harlh cadence of a rugged line : A noble error,... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1778 - 438 pages
...Have taught the smoothness of thy native tongue. But satire needs not those, and wit will shine i$ Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line : A noble...made, When poets are by too much force betray'd. Thy gen'rous fruits, tho' gather'dcre their prime, ^ Still shew'da quickness; and maturing Time 20 (^ But... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 458 pages
...the youug.J Have taught the smoothness of thy native tongue. But satire needs not those ;. and vrit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line...made ; When poets are by too much force betray'd. Thy gen'rous fruits, tho' gather'd ere their prime, ^ Still shew'da quickness ; and maturing Time f But... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 506 pages
...slippery place, Whilst his young friend performed and won the race. O early ripe ! to thy abundant store What could advancing age have added more ! It might...shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line. * * Dryden's opinion concerning the harshness of Oldham's numbers, was not unanimously subscribed to... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 500 pages
...slippery place, Whilst his young friend performed and won the race. O early ripe ! to thy abundant store What could advancing age have added more ! It might...shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line. * * Dryden's opinion concerning the harshness of Oldham's numbers, was not unanimously subscribed to... | |
 | Europe - 1810 - 560 pages
...him, they want — - the numbers of their native tongue -. But satire needs not these, and wit can shine -• Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line;...but seldom made, When poets are by too much force betray d. It may be farther observed, that the labour which Mr Crabbe has bestowed upon his characters,... | |
 | 1814 - 556 pages
...are singularly applicable to the earlier poetry of Clifton. " O early ripe ! to thy abundant store What could advancing age have added more ? It might...numbers of thy native tongue ; But satire needs not that, and wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line." But in his later poems this mist... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 504 pages
...slippery place, Whilst his young friend perform'd and won the race. O early ripe ; to thy abundant store What could advancing age have added more ! It might...shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line. * * Dryden's opinion concerning the harshness of Oldham's numbers, was not unanimously subscribed to... | |
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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... 
