 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
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 pages
...arrive: thus Nisus fell upon the slippery place, whilst his young friend performed and won the race. Oh 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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1866 - 346 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...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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1866 - 348 pages
...arrive. Thus Nisus fell upon the slippery place, Whilst his young friend perform'd, and won the race. 10 O early ripe! to thy abundant store What could advancing age have added more ? V. 1. Farewell, too little] This short elegy is finished with the most exquisite art and skill. Not... | |
 | John Dryden - 1867 - 556 pages
...Thug Niaus fell upon the slippery place, Whilst his young friend perfonn'd, and won the race. '" Oh - 1 It might (what nature never gives the young) Have taught the numbers of thy native tongue. But satire... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 pages
...Thus Nisus fell upon the slippery place, Whilst his young friend performed, and won the race. 10 Oh early ripe! to thy abundant store What could advancing...native tongue. But satire needs not those, and wit will shine 15 Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line. A noble error, and but seldom made, When... | |
 | Walter Scott, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William) Turner - 1869 - 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...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,... | |
 | 1869 - 488 pages
...copying another passage, notwithstanding some incongruity of metaphor in the last couplet . — "Oh, 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 ragged line." In publishing his works, OUhara declined to... | |
 | John Dryden - 1897 - 764 pages
...arrive. Thus Nisus fell upon the slippery place, Whilst his young friend performed and won the race, t 1 O early ripe ! to thy abundant store What could advancing...young) Have taught the numbers of thy native tongue, t But satire needs not those, and wit will shine 1 Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line. A noble... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1871 - 524 pages
...Pope in his youth refuted an axiom which Dryden propounded in his lines to the memory of Old ham. 0 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 this, and wit will shine Through the hank cadence... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1873 - 780 pages
...help copying another passage, notwithstanding some incongruity of metaphor in the last couplet: " Oh, early ripe! to thy abundant store What could advancing...taught the numbers of thy native tongue; But satire necds not those, and wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line." In publishing his... | |
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