 | lady Pleasance Smith - 1832 - 620 pages
...falsified or adulterated. To them we hope to be pardoned if we apply the words of the poet, " The solid bullion of one sterling line, Drawn to French wire, would through whole pages shine." Of this it is needless to quote examples. We must be every day more and more sensible of the value... | |
 | 1843 - 866 pages
...the early figures up to five, the words, franc and litire were indiscriminately used in calculation, to express the value of twenty sols, though no coin...language, however discordant in fact, of the French livre <md the British pound, which, in Lord Roscommon's spirited comparison, like " The weighty bullion of... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1853 - 764 pages
...book much of the same size, by the same author, entitled, Suit, des Penties inginieuset. The English bullion of one sterling line, Drawn to French wire, would through whole pages shine. Lose no time, my dear child, I conjure you, in forming your taste, your manners, your mind, your every... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1865 - 818 pages
...1776. ' But speaking of Racine, he quoted this Couplet (of Roscom' mon's Essay on Translated Verse) : " The weighty bullion of one sterling line Drawn to French wire would through whole pages shine." Sherlock. " The English prefer Corneille to Racine." Voltaire. " That is because the English are not... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1866 - 640 pages
...one.' But speaking of Racine, he quoted this Couplet (of Roscommon's Essay on Translated Verse) : " 'The weighty bullion of one sterling line Drawn to French wire would through whole pages shine." Sherlock. " ' The English prefer Corncille to Racine.' Voltaire. "'That is because the English are... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1870 - 292 pages
...I'entortillement. And Lord Boscommon would be more in the right now, than he was then, in saying, that The English bullion of one sterling line, Drawn to French wire, would through whole pages shine. [Feb. 5, 1750.] No STOIC. — I confess, the pleasures of high life are not always strictly philosophical... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.) - 1872 - 474 pages
...Ventortillement.i And Lord Roscommon would be more in the right now, than he was then, in saying, that The English bullion of one sterling line, Drawn to French wire, would through whole pages shine. Lose no time, my dear child, I conjure you, in forming your taste, your manners, your mind, your everything... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 pages
...not the workman's skill. ROSCOMMON. Others that affect A lofty style, swell to a tympany. ROSCOMMON. The weighty bullion of one sterling line Drawn to French wire would through whole pages shine. ROSCOMMON : Translated Verst. All men will try, and hope to write as well, And not without much pains... | |
 | 1876 - 892 pages
...he condemns the French language, saying tbat English energy is never found in French authors:— " The weighty bullion of one sterling line Drawn to French wire, would thro whole pages shine." He sneers at Homer's milk heroes ; he is loud in his praise o Horace, Maro,and... | |
 | University magazine - 1876 - 828 pages
...he condemns the French language, say ing thatEuglish energy is never found in French authors: — " The weighty bullion of one sterling line Drawn to French wire, would thro' whole pages shine." He sneers at Homer's railing heroes ; he is loud in his praise of Horace,... | |
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For who did ever in French authors see The comprehensive English energy? The weighty bullion of one sterling line, Drawn to French wire, would through whole pages shine. 
