 | Samuel Johnson - 1858 - 418 pages
...adorned by Augustus, may beiapplied byan easy.metaphor to English poetry embellished byDryden, lateririam invenit, marmoream reliquit. He found it brick, and he left it marble. The invocation before the "Georgics"'is here inserted from Mr. Melbourne's version, that, according to... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - 408 pages
...and force of English prose, tkftt we may apply to him what was said of Augustus with regard to Rome : lateritiam invenit, marmoream reliquit ; he found it brick, and he left it marble. Mr. Hallam's opinion differs somewhat from this, it is as follows : — " The style of Bacon has an... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1864 - 460 pages
...by Augustus, may be applied by an easy metaphor to English poetry embellished by Dryden, lateritimn invenit, marmoream reliquit; 'He found it brick, and he left it marble.' The invocation before the " Georgics" is here inserted from Mr. Milbourne's version, that, according to... | |
 | John Dryden - 1866 - 326 pages
...Augustus, may be applied, by an easy metaphor, to English poetry embellished by Dryden : ' Laleritiam invenit, marmoream reliquit ; ' ' He found it brick,* and he left it marble.' " Of Johnson's parallel between Dryden and Pope, in his Life of the latter poet, it may be said that... | |
 | John Dryden - 1867 - 556 pages
...He showed us the true bounds ol a translator's liberty. What was said of Rome, adorned by Angustus, may be applied by an easy metaphor to English poetry...reliquit." He found it brick, and he left it marble. The invocation before the Georgies is here inserted from Mr Milbourne's version, that according to his... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1872 - 458 pages
...applied by an easy metaphor to English poetry, embellished by Dryden ; Lateritiam invenit, marmrnwam reliquit ; he found it brick and he left it marble."...display of misplaced learning, and constant striving after-wit, equally unseasonable and far-fetched. Johnson's 'Essay' is, however, admirable in every... | |
 | Peter Freeland Aiken - 1876 - 468 pages
...our language, and much of the correctness of our ' sentiments. By him we were taught sapere et fari, to ' think naturally and express forcibly ; he taught...reliquit, he ' found it brick and he left it marble." Pope wrote of him — Waller was smooth ; but Dryden taught to join The varying verse, the full resounding... | |
 | 1878 - 646 pages
...Johnson, ' no nation ever produced a writer that enriched hi* language with such a variety of models.' What was said of Rome adorned by Augustus may be applied...reliquit, he found it brick and he left it marble.' His influence on our literature in almost all its branches has indeed been prodigious. He is one of... | |
 | 1878 - 630 pages
...Johnson, ' no nation ever produced a writer that enriched his language with such a variety of models.' What was said of Rome adorned by Augustus may be applied...reliquit, he found it brick and he left it marble.' His influence on our literature in almost all its branches has indeed been prodigious. He is one of... | |
 | 1878 - 618 pages
...Johnson, ' no nation ever produced a writer that enriched his language with, such a variety of models.' What was said of Rome adorned by Augustus may be applied...reliquit, he found it brick and he left it marble.' His influence on our literature in almost all its branches has indeed been prodigious. He is one of... | |
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What was said of Rome, adorned by Augustus, may be applied by an easy metaphor to English poetry embellished by Dryden, " lateritiam invenit, marmoream reliquit." He found it brick and he left it marble. 
