| British poets - 1822 - 292 pages
...arrive. Thus Nisus fell upon the slippery place, Whilst his young friend perform'd and won the race. O early ripe ! to thy abundant store What could advancing...what Nature never gives the young, Have taught the smoothness of thy native tongue : But satire needs not those, and wit will shine Through the harsh... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...fell upon the slippery place, [race. Whilst his young friend perform'd, and won the O early ripe I o breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? P. Yet let me...wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks an smoothness of thy native tongue. But satire needs not those, and wit will shine Through the harsh cadence... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...young friend perform'd and won the raee. O early ripe ! to thy abundant store What eould advaneing s Davison for Thomas Tegg thee smoothness of thy native tongue ; But satire needs not those, and wit will shine Through the harsh... | |
| Walter Scott - 1826 - 532 pages
...dedicated to his memory, alludes to this deficiency, and seems to admit the subject as an apology : « O early ripe ! to thy abundant store What could advancing...numbers of thy native tongue. ^ But satire needs not those, and wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.« Yet the apology which he admitted... | |
| Walter Scott - 1826 - 526 pages
...dedicated to his memory, alludes to this deficiency, and seems to admit the subject as an apology : « O early ripe ! to thy abundant store What could advancing...numbers of thy native tongue. But satire needs not those, and wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line. » Yet the apology which he admitted... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827 - 564 pages
...dedicated tohis memory, alludes to this deficiency, and seems to admit the subject as an apology : " O early ripe ! to thy abundant store What could advancing...numbers of thy native tongue. But satire needs not those, and wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line." Yet the apology which he admitted... | |
| Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 806 pages
...harshness of their sound ? Id. Age might, what nature never gives the young, Have taught the smoothness of thy native tongue ; But satire needs not that, and wit will shine Through the liarsh cadence of a rugged line. ¡d. The unnecessary consonants made their spelling tedious, and their... | |
| University of Cambridge - 1830 - 636 pages
...Thus Nisus fell upon the slippery place, Whilst his young friend performed, and won the race. — О early ripe ! to thy abundant store What could advancing...(what nature never gives the young) Have taught the smoothness of thy native tongue; But satire needs not that, and wit will shine Through the harsh cadence... | |
| Walter Scott - 1834 - 516 pages
...dedicated to his memory, alludes to this deficiency, and seems to admit the subject as an apology : — " O early ripe ! to thy abundant store What could advancing...numbers of thy native tongue. But satire needs not those, and wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line." Yet the apology which he admitted... | |
| Walter Scott - 1834 - 486 pages
...dedicated to his memory, alludes to this deficiency, and seems to admit the subject as an apology : — " O early ripe ! to thy abundant store What could advancing age have added more! It might (what natur% never gives the young) Have taught the numbers of thy native tongue. But satire needs not those,... | |
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