 | John Dryden - Classical poetry - 1706 - 490 pages
...your Genius j Yet if it ever be your Fate to Write, Let your Produdtions pafs the ftridteft Hands, 'Mine and your Father's, and not fee the Light* Till Time and Care have ripcn'd ev'ry Line. What you keep by you, you may change and mend, But Words once fpoke can never be... | |
 | Horace - 1717 - 392 pages
...Productions rafs the ftricteft Hand*, Mire, and your Father'?, and not fee the Light, Till Time and Care hath ripen'd ev'ry Line.. What you keep by you, you may change and mend; But Words once fpoke, can naver be rccall'd. Orphous infpir'd by more than humane Pow'r, Did not (as Poets feign) tame Savage... | |
 | Wentworth Dillon Earl of Roscommon - English poetry - 1717 - 580 pages
...your Genius ; Yet if it ever be your Fate to write, Let your Productions pafs the ftrifteft Hands, Mine and your Father's, and not fee the Light, 'Till Time and Care have ripen'd ev'ry Line. W hat you keep by you, you may change and mend, But Words once fpoke can never be recall'd. Orfheusy... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 258 pages
...ftritteft hands, Mine and your father's, and not fee the light T Till Till time and care have ripen'd every line. What you keep by you, you may change and mend,...be recall'd. Orpheus, infpir'd by more than human power, Did not, as poets feign, tame favage beafts, But men as lav. Id's and as wild as they, And firtt... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 486 pages
...genius to contend ; Yet if it ever be your fate to write, Let your productions pafs the ftrifteft hands, Mine and your father's, and not fee the light Till time and care have ripen'd every line. What you keep by you, you may change and mend, But .words once fpoke can never be recall'd.... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 248 pages
...ftrifteft hands, .Mine and your fathe-r's, and not fee the light Till Till time and care have ripen'd every line. What you keep by you, you may change and mend,...be recall'd. Orpheus, infpir'd by more than human power, Did net, as poets feign, tame favage beafts, But men as lawlefs and as wild as they, And firft... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 806 pages
...genius to contend ; Yet if it ever be your fate to write, Let your productions pafs the ftriiSeft hands, Mine and your father's, and not fee the light Till time and care have ripen'd every line. What yen keep by you, you may change and mend ; >v . But words once fpoke can never be... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English language - 1805 - 924 pages
...departed. A.:-. You from my youth Have known and tiied me, tftalt \ more than truth ? Saiufyt. \\Tut you keep by you, you may change and mend, But words once if ate can never be recall'd. H'j.'/rr. Under the tropick is our language tpote, And part of Flanders... | |
 | Samuel Butler, Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 414 pages
...fate to write, JL.et your productions pass the strictest hands, Mine and your father's, and not see the light Till time and care have ripen'd ev'ry line....keep by you, you may change and mend, But words once spoke can never he recall'd. 440 Orpheus, inspir'd by more than human pow'r, Did not, as poets feign,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 654 pages
...strictest hands, Mine and your father's, and not see the light Till time and care have ripen'd every line. What you keep by you, you may change and mend, But words once spoke can never he recall'd. Orpheus, inspir'd by more than human power, Did not, as poets feign, tame... | |
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What you keep by you, you may change and mend But words once spoke can never be recalled. 
