 | 1867 - 972 pages
...country." "It contains specimens of every variety of drollery and satire." — William Hazlitt. 3. " To him no author was unknown, Yet what he wrote was all his own ; Horace's wit, and Virgil's state He did not steal, but emulate." — Sir John Denham. " Who now rends... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 pages
...slower Nature got the start ; But both in him so equal are, None knows which bears the happiest share. To him no author was unknown, Yet what he wrote was all his own, He melted not the ancient gold, i Nor with Ben Jonson did make bold To plunder all the Roman stores Of poets and of orators. Horace's... | |
 | 1870 - 462 pages
...slower Nature got the start; But both in him so equal are, None knows which bears the happiest share. To him no author was unknown, Yet what he wrote was...own, He melted not the ancient gold, Nor with Ben Jonson did make bold To plunder all the Roman stores Of poets and of orators. Horace's wit and Virgil's... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 pages
...slower nature got the start ; But both in him so equal are, None knows which bears the happiest share. To him no author was unknown, Yet what he wrote was...own ; He melted not the ancient gold, Nor with Ben Jonson did make bold To plunder all the Roman stores Of poets and of orators : Horace his wit and Virgil's... | |
 | Charles Anderton Read - 1879 - 404 pages
...slower nature got the start; But both in him so equal are, None knows which bears the happier share: To him no author was unknown, Yet what he wrote was...own ; He melted not the ancient gold, Nor, with Ben Jonson, did make bold To plunder all the Roman stores Of poets and of orators: Horace's wit and Virgil's... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 524 pages
...was unknown, Yet what he wrote was all his own. He melted not the ancient gold, Nor, with Ben Jonson, did make bold To plunder all the Roman stores Of poets...and Virgil's state He did not steal, but emulate, And when he would like them appear, Their garb, but not their clothes, did wear ; He not from Rome... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 528 pages
...was unknown, Yet what he wrote was all his own. He melted not the ancient gold, Nor, with Ben Jonson, did make bold To plunder all the Roman stores Of poets...and Virgil's state He did not steal, but emulate, And when he would like them appear, Their garb, but not their clothes, did wear ; He not from Rome... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 536 pages
...slower nature got the start; But both in him so equal are, None knows which bears the happiest share ; To him no author was unknown, Yet what he wrote was...own. He melted not the ancient gold, Nor, with Ben Jonson, did make bold To plunder all the Roman stores Of poets and of orators. f Horace's wit and Virgil's... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 524 pages
...slower nature got the start ; But both in him so equal are, None knows which bears the happiest share ; To him no author was unknown, Yet what he wrote was...own. He melted not the ancient gold, Nor, with Ben Jonson, did make bold To plunder all the Roman stores Of poets and of orators. Horace's wit and Virgil's... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1882 - 524 pages
...in him so equal are, None knows which bears the happiest share ; To him no author was. unknown,Yet what he wrote was all his own. He melted not the ancient gold, Nor, with Ben Jonson,. did make bold To plunder all the Roman stores Of poets and of orators. Horace's wit and Virgil's... | |
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Horace's wit, and Virgil's state, He did not steal, but emulate! And when he would like them appear, •/ Their garb, but not their clothes, did wear... 
