 | John Matthews Manly - 1907 - 654 pages
...unknown, Yet what he wrote was all his own; 30 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: RICHARD LOVELACE (1618-1658)... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1907 - 616 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 ; 30 He melted not the ancient gold, Nor, with Ben Jonson, did make bold To plunder all the Roman stores... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - 1909 - 892 pages
...None knows which bears the happiest share; He melted not the ancient gold, 244 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 alone,... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 812 pages
...RUSSELL, 1851, Recollections of A Literary Life, p. 46. GENERAL To him no author was unknown, Yet what lie wrote was all his own ; He melted not the ancient...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 alone,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1910 - 424 pages
...To steal a hint was never known, But what he writ was all his own.1 1 Denham's elegy on Cowley : " To him no author was unknown, Yet what he wrote was all his own." " He never thought an honour done him, Because a duke was proud to own him, Would rather slip aside and... | |
 | John William Cunliffe, James Francis Augustin Pyre, Karl Young - 1911 - 1196 pages
...unknown, Yet what he wrote was all his own; 3<> 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 state, 35 He did not steal, but emulate: And when he would like them appear, Their garb, but not their clothes,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1914 - 192 pages
...among which was the " Elegy on Cowley," to which Macaulay here refers. The passage is as follows : " 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... | |
 | Herbert Charles O'Neill - 1919 - 480 pages
...gold, to paint the lily. (Salisbury.) noi. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616), King John, Act iv. sc. 2. To him no author was unknown. Yet what he wrote was all his own. 1 102. Sir JOHN DENHAM (1615-68), On Mr. Abraham Cowlcy's Death. 1103. To kick against the pricks.... | |
 | Jesse Franklin Bradley, Joseph Quincy Adams - 1922 - 492 pages
...Johnson, Art Of flower'Nature got the start. ***** He melted not the ancient Gold, Nor with Ben Johnson did make bold To plunder all the Roman Stores Of Poets, and of Orators: Horace his Wit, and Virgil's State, He did not steal, but emulate, And when he would like them appear,... | |
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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... 
