 | 1878 - 620 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1881 - 570 pages
...him, it may be perhaps maintained that he was the first who joined argument with poetry. He shewed us the true bounds of a translator's liberty. What...reliquit, he found it brick, and he left it marble. The invocation before the Georgicks is here inserted from Mr. Milbourne's version, that, according to his... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1884 - 468 pages
...and force of English prose, that 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1884 - 474 pages
...and force of English prose, that 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1884 - 476 pages
...and force of English prose, that 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... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 728 pages
...by Augustus, may be applied by an easy metaphor to English poetry embellished by Dryden, latcritiam invenit, marmoream reliquit. He found it brick and he left it marble. — DR. JOHNSON. The English tongue as it stands at present is greatly his (Dryden's) debtor. He first... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1886 - 516 pages
...him, it may be perhaps maintained that he was the first who joined argument with poetry. He shewed us the true bounds of a translator's liberty. What...reliquit, he found it brick, and he left it marble. MR. DRYDEN, having received from Rymer * his Remarks on the Tragedies of the last Age, wrote observations... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1891 - 466 pages
...and force of English prose, that 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 idiosyncrasy... | |
 | John Dryden, William Dougal Christie - 1893 - 780 pages
...rhyme before him, it may be perhaps maintained that he was the first who joined argument with poetry. He showed us the true bounds of a translator's liberty....reliquit.' (He found it brick, and he left it marble.)" "Dryden's practical knowledge of English," said Home Tooke, "was beyond all others exquisite and wonderful.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1895 - 234 pages
...him, it may be perhaps maintained that he was the first who joined argument with poetry. He shewed us the true bounds of a translator's liberty. What...reliquit, he found it brick, and he left it marble. The invocation before the Georgicks is here inserted from Mr. Milbourne's version, that, according to his... | |
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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. 
