 | Virgil - 1803 - 364 pages
...of Roscommon, if applied to the Romans, rather, I fear, than to the English, since his own death : one sterling line, Drawn to French wire, would through whole pages shine. ' .. . ; i Another rule is, that the characters should represent that ancient innocence, and unpractised... | |
 | Publius Vergilius Maro - 1806 - 310 pages
...earl of Roscommon, if applied to the Romans, rather, 1 fear, than to the English, since his own death: one sterling line, Drawn to French wire, would through whole pages shine. Another rule is, that the characters should represent that ancient innocence, and unpractised plainness,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 436 pages
...of Roscommon, if applied to the Romans, rather, I fear, than to the English, since his own death : -one sterling line, Drawn to French wire, would through whole pages shine. Another rule is, that the characters should represent that ancient innocence, and unpractised plainness,... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 442 pages
...of Roscommon, if applied to the Romans, rather, I fear, than to the English, since his own death : -one sterling line, Drawn to French wire, would through whole pages shine. Another rule is, that the characters should represent that ancient innocence, and unpractised plainness,... | |
 | 1813 - 432 pages
...of Roscommon, if applied to the Romans, rather, I iear, than to the English, since his own death : one sterling line, Drawn to French wire, would through whole pages shine. Another rule is, that the characters should represent that ancient innocence, and unpractised plainness,... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 444 pages
...of Roscommon, if applied to the Romans, rather, I fear, than to the English, since his own death : one sterling line, Drawn to French wire, would through whole pages shine. Another rule is, that the characters should represent that ancient innocence, and unpractised plainness,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 272 pages
...Earl of Roscommon, if applied to the Romans, rather, I fear, than to the English, since his own death: one sterling line, Drawn to French wire, would through whole pages shine. Another rule is, that the characters should represent that ancient innocence, and unpractised plainness,... | |
 | 1826 - 782 pages
...without regard to rythm or cadence, and, accordingly, to murder the familiar lines of Roscommon, ' The weighty bullion of one sterling line, Drawn to French wire, would through whole pages shine,' by metamorphosing them into the following jargon — * A weighty Bullion of one sterling line, Drawn... | |
 | Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1827 - 390 pages
...I'entortillement. And Lord Roscommon would be more in the right now, than he was then, in saying, that The English bullion of one sterling line, Drawn to French wire, would through whole pages shine. Lose no time, my dear child, I conjure you, in forming your taste, your manners, your mind, your every... | |
 | James Edward Smith - 1832 - 630 pages
...falsified or adulterated. To them we hope to be pardoned if we apply the words of the poet, " The solid bullion of one sterling line, Drawn to French wire, would through whole pages shine." Of this it is needless to quote examples. We must be every day more and more sensible of the value... | |
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For who did ever in French authors see The comprehensive English energy? The weighty bullion of one sterling line, Drawn to French wire, would through whole pages shine. 
