 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. But satire needs not those, and wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged...  The Nineteenth Century - Page 2671897Full view - About this book
 | 1814 - 556 pages
...of English verse, has some lines which are singularly applicable to the earlier poetry of Clifton. " O early ripe ! to thy abundant store What could advancing...numbers of thy native tongue ; But satire needs not that, and wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line." But in his later poems this mist... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 504 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...native tongue. But satire needs not those, and wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line. * * Dryden's opinion concerning the harshness... | |
 | 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...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 for Oldham,... | |
 | 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...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 for Oldham,... | |
 | 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...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 for Oldham,... | |
 | 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...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 for Oldham,... | |
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