 All that is left us is to recommend our productions by the imitation of the ancients ; and it will be found true that, in every age, the highest character for sense and learning has been obtained by those who have been most indebted to them.  Juvenile poems - Page xvby Alexander Pope - 1757Full view - About this book
 | English authors - 1876 - 504 pages
...for our pride ! when the utmost we can hope, is but to be read in one island, and to be thrown aside at the end of one age. All that is left us is to recommend...and it will be found true, that, in every age, the highest character for sense and learning has been obtained by those who have been most indebted to... | |
 | Henry Bernard Cotterill - English poetry - 1882 - 354 pages
...than any man." The ancients, he insists, are to be our sole models. " All that is left us," he says, " is to recommend our productions by the imitation of...and it will be found true that, in every age, the highest character for sense and learning has been obtained by those who have been most indebted to... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1893 - 566 pages
...for our pride ! when the utmost we can hope, is but to be read in one Island, and to be thrown aside at the end of one Age. All that is left us is to recommend...and it will be found true, that, in every age, the highest character for sense and learning has been obtain'd by those who have been most indebted to... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1893 - 588 pages
...for our pride ! when the utmost we can hope, is but to be read in one Island, and to be thrown aside at the end of one Age. All that is left us is to recommend...and it will be found true, that, in every age, the highest character for sense and learning has been obtain'd by those who have been most indebted to... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1899 - 534 pages
...for our pride! when the utmost we can hope, is but to be read in one island, and to be thrown aside at the end of one age. All that is left us is to recommend...and it will be found true, that in every age, the highest character for sense and learning has been obtained by those who have been most indebted to... | |
 | Calendars - 1895 - 416 pages
...else so happy As in a soul remembering my good friends. KINO RICHARD II. U. 3. A LL that is left to us is to recommend our productions by the imitation...and it will be found true, that in every age, the highest character for sense and learning has been obtain'd by those who have been most indebted to... | |
 | Rudolf Kahn - 1910 - 144 pages
...„Conjectures". In einem Vorwort zu seinen Werken hatte nämlich Pope den berühmt gewordenen Satz aufgestellt: „All that is left us is to recommend our productions by the imitation of the ancients" 2). Hierzu bemerkt Warton: „I have frequently heard Dr. Young speak with great disapprobation of... | |
 | Richard Pape Cowl - English poetry - 1914 - 346 pages
...that is peculiar to them and entirely their own. J. ADDISON, Spectator (No. 160), 1711. imitate the All that is left us is to recommend our productions...and it will be found true, that in every age, the highest character for sense and learning has been obtained by those who have been most Good sense indebted... | |
 | Robert Lynd - Criticism - 1920 - 256 pages
...the classics were more slavishly idolized and imitated. Miss Morley quotes from Pope the saying that "all that is left us is to recommend our productions by the imitation of the ancients." Young threw all his eloquence on the opposite side. He uttered the bold paradox : " The less we copy... | |
 | Modern Language Association of America - Philology, Modern - 1921 - 864 pages
...imitation.25 Pope praised Virgil for imitating Homer ;29 and, in the Preface to his own Poems, he says : All that is left us is to recommend our productions...and it will be found true, that in every age, the highest character for sense and learning has been obtain'd by those who have been most indebted to... | |
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