 | John Bell - 1778 - 438 pages
...Have taught the smoothness of thy native tongue. But satire needs not those, and wit will shine i$ Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line : A noble...but seldom made, When poets are by too much force betray'd. Thy gen'rous fruits, tho' gather'dcre their prime, ^ Still shew'da quickness; and maturing... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 458 pages
...youug.J Have taught the smoothness of thy native tongue. But satire needs not those ;. and vrit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line :...but seldom made ; When poets are by too much force betray'd. Thy gen'rous fruits, tho' gather'd ere their prime, ^ Still shew'da quickness ; and maturing... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 500 pages
...concerning the harshness of Oldham's numbers, was not unanimously subscribed to by contemporary authors. A noble error, and but seldom made, When poets are by too much force betrayed. Thy generous fruits, though gathered ere theirprime, Still shewed a quickness ; and maturing... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 506 pages
...concerning the harshness of Oldham's numbers, was not unanimously subscribed to by contemporary authors. A noble error, and but seldom made, When poets are by too much force betrayed. Thy generous fruits, though gathered ere their ^ prime, / Still shewed a quickness ; and... | |
 | 1810 - 558 pages
...tongue : But satire needs not these, and writ ca« shme Through the harsh cadence of a rugged .lme; A noble error, and but seldom made, When poets are by too much force betray 'd. " . L:r;-vi ,, -,-;; ' It may be farther observed, that the labour which Mr Crabbe has bestowed upon... | |
 | 1818 - 444 pages
...¿¡¿.адгчр eúyivs;, add the following, from Dryden's lines on the death of Oldhani the poet : A noble error, and but seldom made, When poets are by too much force betray'd. XLI. In the Diosemea of Aratus, 1. 102. (Class. Journ. No. xxxiii. p. 48.) we read --- día.... | |
 | 1818 - 426 pages
...а/ласт^' EÛyEvsj, add the following, from Dryden's lines on tbe death of Oldhani the poet : Л noble error, and but seldom made, When poets are by too much force betray'di XLI. In the Diosemea of Aratus, 1. 102. (Class. Journ. No. xxxiii. p. 48.) we read JV уеф«оу... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 504 pages
...the harshness of Oldham's numbers, was not unanimously subscribed to by contemporary authors. » vf A noble error, and but seldom made, When poets are by too much force betray 'd. Thy generous fruits, though gather'd ere their prime, Still shew'da quickness ; and maturing time But... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 504 pages
...concerning the harshness of Oldham's numbers, was not unanimously subscribed to by contemporary authors. y A noble error, and but seldom made, When poets are by too much force betray'd. Thy generous fruits, though gather'd ere their prime, Still shew'da quickness ; and maturing... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 292 pages
...the young, Have taught the smoothness of thy native tongue : But satire needs not those, and wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line....but seldom made, When poets are by too much force betray'd. Thy generous fruits, though gather'd ere their prime, Still show'da quickness; and maturing... | |
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O early ripe! to thy abundant store What could advancing age have added more? It might (what nature never gives the young) Have taught the numbers of thy native tongue. 
