 | English poets - 1801 - 488 pages
...matter may betray their art : Time, if we use ill-chosen stone, Soon brings a well-built palace down. Poets, that lasting marble seek, Must carve in Latin or in Greek : We write in sand ; our language grows, And, like the tide, our work o'erflows. ยป x Chaucer his sense... | |
 | George Ellis - English poetry - 1803 - 476 pages
...that dies, our language fails. Time, if we use ill-chosen stone, Soon brings a well-built palace down. Poets, that lasting marble seek, Must carve in Latin or in Greek : We write in sand ; our language grows, And, like the tide, our work o'erflows. Chaucer his sense... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 422 pages
...which bears a strong resemblance to this passage of POPE. L 2 Poets * No. 92. f Ver. 474. 1 Ver. 483. Poets that lasting marble seek, Must carve in Latin or in Greek; We write in sand ; our language grows. And like the tide, our work o'erflows. Chaucer his SENSE can... | |
 | Edmund Waller - 1806 - 320 pages
...matter may betray their art : Time, if we use ill-chosen stone, Soon brings a well-built palace down. Poets that lasting marble seek, Must carve in Latin or in Greek : We write in sand, our language grows, And, like the tide, our work o'erflows. Chancer his sense can... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1819 - 644 pages
...matter may betray their art : Time, if we use ill-chosen stone, Soon brings a well-built palace down. Poets, that lasting marble seek, Must carve in Latin or in Greek: We write in sand, our language grows, And, like the tide, our work o'erflows. Chaucer his sense ran... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...matter may betray their art : Time, if we use ill-chosen stone, Soon brings a well-built palace down. t which is not good, is not delicious To a well-govern'd and wis : We write in sand, our language grows, And, like the tide, our work o'erflows. Chaucer his sense can... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 356 pages
...matter may betray their art : Time, if we use ill-chosen stone, Soon brings a well-built palace down. Poets, that lasting marble seek, Must carve in Latin or in Greek : We write in sand, our language grows, And, like the tide, our work o'erflows. j Chaucer his sense... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 280 pages
...matter may betray their art : Time, if we use ill-chosen stone, Soon brings a well-built palace down. Poets that lasting marble seek, Must carve in Latin or in Greek : We write in sand, our language grows, And, like the tide, our work o'erflows. Chaucer his sense can... | |
 | James I (king of Scotland.) - 1825 - 306 pages
...last century, may, with equal force, be applied to the poetical remains of King James I. of Scotland: Poets, that lasting marble seek, Must carve in Latin or in Greek : We write in sand ; our language grows ; And, like the tide, our work o'erfiows. Chaucer his sense... | |
 | James I (King of Scotland) - English language - 1825 - 308 pages
...last century, may, with equal force, be applied to the poetical remains of King James I. of Scotland: Poets, that lasting marble seek, Must carve in Latin or in Greek : We write in sand ; our language grows ; And, like the tide, our work o'erflows. Chaucer his sense... | |
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Poets that lasting marble seek Must carve in Latin or in Greek; We write in sand, our language grows, And, like the tide, our work o'erflows. 
