 | 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... | |
 | William Clark Russell - 1871 - 550 pages
...no hiding place, and the house of mourning no sanctuary. — Macaulay. Abraham Cowley. . 1618-1667. 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... | |
 | 1873 - 822 pages
...Strafford's heroic power both of endurance and resistance. To use Denham's words, the trial was a scene where Private pity strove with public hate, Reason with rage, and eloquence with fate ; and to all appearance pity, reason, and eloquence were victorious. It was also thought, at that moment,... | |
 | 1873 - 808 pages
...Strafford's heroic power both of endurance and resistance. To use Denham's words, the trial was a scene where Private pity strove with public hate, Reason with rage, and eloquence with fate ; and to all appearance pity, reason, and eloquence were victorious. It was also thought, at that moment,... | |
 | 1873 - 896 pages
...Stafford's heroic power both of endurance and resistance. To use Denham's words, the trial was a scene where Private pity strove with public hate, Reason with rage, and eloquence with fate; and to all appearance pity, reason, and eloquence were victorious. It was also thought, at that moment,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 pages
...Dost manage, guide, and master th' eminence Of men's affections, more than all their swords ! DANIEL. Now private pity strove with public hate, Reason with rage, and eloquence with fate. SIR J. DENHAM. Soft elocution does thy style renown, Gentle or sharp according to thy choice, To laugh... | |
 | 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. - ; He melted not the ancient gold, Nor with Ben Jonson did make bold To plunder all the Roman stores... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 pages
...Dost manage, guide, and master th' eminence Of men's affections, more than all their swords ! DANIEL. Now private pity strove with public hate, Reason with rage, and eloquence with fate. SIR J. DESHAM. Soft elocution does thy style renown, Gentle or sharp according to thy choice, To laugh... | |
 | 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 all his own ; He melted not the ancient gold, Nor, with Ben Jonson, did make bold To plunder all the Roman stores... | |
 | 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 all his own. He melted not the ancient gold, Nor, with Ben Jonson, did make bold To plunder all the Roman stores... | |
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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 cloaths, did wear. 
