 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
 | John Dryden - 1874 - 740 pages
...Thus Nisus fell upon the slippery place, Whilst his young friend perform'd, and won the race. 10 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 those, and wit will shine Through the harsh cadence... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 pages
...days had seen DRYDEN. Sccure these golden early joys That youth unsour'd with sorrow bears. DRYDEN. O early ripe ! to thy abundant store What could advancing age have added more ? DRYDEN. Fair, sweet, and young, receive a prize Reserved for your victorious eyes : From crowds whom... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 pages
...days had seen. DRYDEN. Secure these golden early joys That youth unsour'd with sorrow boars. DRYDEN. O early ripe ! to thy abundant store What could advancing age have added more ? Fair, sweet, and young, receive a prize Reserved for your victorious eyes : From crowds whom at your... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 524 pages
...and even this he was ready himself to overrule. Had Oldham lived longer, Dryden wrote, advancing age 'might (what Nature never gives the young) Have taught...numbers of thy native tongue ; But satire needs not these, and wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.' To us there is much besides... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 524 pages
...and even this he was ready himself to overrule. Had Oldham lived longer, Dryden wrote, advancing age 'might (what Nature never gives the young) Have taught...numbers of thy native tongue ; But satire needs not these, and wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.' To us there is much besides... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1882 - 524 pages
...and even this he was ready himself to overrule. Had Oldham lived longer, Dryden wrote, advancing age 'might (what Nature never gives the young) Have taught...numbers of thy native tongue ; But satire needs not 1he^e, and wit will shine Through the harsh cadtnce of a rugged line.' To us there is much besides... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1883 - 518 pages
...and even this he was ready himself to overrule. Had Oldham lived longer, Dryden wrote, advancing age 'might (what Nature never gives the young) Have taught...native tongue; But satire needs not those, and wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.' To us there is much besides defects of form... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1884 - 450 pages
...help 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 rugged line." In publishing his works, Oldham declined to... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1884 - 454 pages
...help 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 rugged line." In publishing his works, Oldham declined to... | |
 | Lucan - 1887 - 548 pages
...Lucan's verse : and, though the cases are not quite analogous, he reminds us of Oldham in Dryden's lines 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 nigged line. A noble error and but seldom made, when poets... | |
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