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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. But satire needs not those, and wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged... "
The Nineteenth Century - Page 267
1897
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The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 1

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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Conversations at Cambridge ...

Robert Aris Willmott - 1836 - 422 pages
...with mine. One common note on either lyre did strike, And knaves and fools we both abhorr'd alike. O early ripe ! to thy abundant store What could advancing...young) Have taught the numbers of thy native tongue. * Some of Oldham's concetti are very pretty. Mr. Moore has rhymed a worse compliment than the following,...
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Conversations at Cambridge

Charles Valentine De Grice - 1836 - 322 pages
...with mine. One common note on either lyre did strike, And knaves and fools we both abhorr'd alike. O early ripe! to thy abundant store What could advancing...young) Have taught the numbers of thy native tongue. * Some of Oldham's concetti are very pretty. Mr. Moore has rhymed a worse compliment than the following,...
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The Works of John Dryden: In Verse and Prose, with a Life, Volume 1

John Dryden - 1837 - 482 pages
...place, "Whilst his young friend perform'd, and won O early ripe ! to thy abundant store [the race. What could advancing age have added more? It might...native tongue. But satire needs not those, and wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line. A noble error, and but seldom made, When poets...
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The Works of John Dryden: In Verse and Prose, with a Life, Volume 1

John Dryden - 1837 - 478 pages
...slippery place, Whilst his young friend perform'd, and won O early ripe ! to thy ahundant store [the race. What could advancing age have added more? It might...(what nature never gives the young) Have taught the numhers of thy native tongue. But satire needs not those, and wit will shine Through the harsh cadence...
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Fraser's Magazine, Volume 33

1846 - 784 pages
...a penny in the world. 'Tis fifty years since Burns was buried in the kirkyard of St. Michael's : " O early ripe, to thy abundant store, What could advancing age have added more!" While the poet of the Ode to Superstilion is still among us, full of years and full of health, and...
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Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, Volume 33

James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1846 - 828 pages
...penny in the world. 'Tie fifty years since Burns was buried in the kirkyard of St. Michael's : " О early ripe, to thy abundant store, What could advancing age have added more!" While the poet of the Ode to Superstition is still among us, full of years and full of health, and...
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The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott...

Walter Scott - 1848 - 484 pages
...dedicated to his memory, alludes to this deficiency, and seems to admit the subject as aa 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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The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 2

John Dryden - 1850 - 330 pages
...arrive. Thus Nisus fell upon the slippery place, Whilst his youugfriend perform'd, and won the race. 0 early ripe! to thy abundant store What could advancing...more ? It might (what nature never gives the young) 1 Farewell, too little] This short elegy is finished with the most exquisite art and skill. Not an...
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Poetical Works of John Oldham

John Oldham - 1854 - 284 pages
...arrive : Thus Nisus fell upon the slippery place, While his young friend performed and won the race. O early ripe ! to thy abundant store What could advancing...numbers of thy native tongue ; But satire needs not these, and wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line : A noble error, and but seldom...
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