 | William Mathews - English language - 1876 - 474 pages
...against marble. Waller, too, ungrateful to the noble tongue that has preserved his name, declares that " Poets that lasting marble seek, Must carve in Latin or in Greek." Because smoothness is one of the requisites of verse, it has been hastily concluded that languages... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1878 - 788 pages
...lose half the praise they should have got Could it be known what they discreetly blot. WALLER. 414 Poets that lasting marble seek Must carve in Latin...language grows, And, like the tide, our work o'erflows. WALLER : On English Verse. Poets may boast, as safely vain, Their works shall with the world remain:... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - English language - 1881 - 408 pages
...daily changing tongue ? While they are new, envy prevails, And as that dies, our language fails. ' Poets that lasting marble seek Must carve in Latin...language grows, And like the tide our work o'erflows.' How his misgivings, which assume that the rate of change would continue what it had been, have been... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1885 - 530 pages
...dies, our language fails. Time, if we use ill-chosen stone, Soon brings a well-built palace6 down. Poets that lasting marble seek, Must carve in Latin...language grows, And, like the tide,' our work o'erflows. Here is an able and well-read man, expressing a fear, almost at the beginning of the eighteenth century,... | |
 | United States. Office of Education, Isaac Edwards Clarke - Drawing - 1885 - 1122 pages
...European scholars. " But who can hope his line should long Last, in a daily changing tongue t * • * m * Poets, that lasting marble seek, Must carve in Latin...sand, our language grows, And, like the tide, our work o'erflowe." PUBLIC EDUCATION-INCREASE OF WEALTH IN THE UNITED STATES. Publie education in the United... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - English literature - 1885 - 728 pages
...JOHN DRYDEN. Chaucer followed Nature everywhere, but was never so bold as to go beyond her. — Ibid. Chaucer his sense can only boast, The glory of his...defac'd his matchless strain, And yet he did not sing in vain. — EDMUND WALLER. The first of our versifiers who wrote poetically. — DR. JOHNSON. Him... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - English literature - 1886 - 478 pages
...sweetness of a Scotch tune in it, which is natural and pleasing." Waller went further : — " Chancer his sense can only boast, The glory of his numbers lost ! Years have defaced his matchless strain, And yet he did not sing in vain." Chaucer himself perceived that he lived... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - English poetry - 1889 - 406 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...can only boast, — The glory of his numbers lost I Years have defaced his matchless strain,— And \et he did not sing in vain I The beauties which... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - English literature - 1889 - 636 pages
...rude sweetness of a Scotch tune in it,' which is natural and pleasing." Waller went further : — " Chaucer his sense can only boast, The glory of his numbers lost ! Years have defaced his matchless strain, And yet he did not sing in vain." Chaucer himself perceived that he lived... | |
 | Charles John Smith - English language - 1890 - 802 pages
...remained for some weeks submerged." " Poets thai lasting marble seek Must carve in Latin or in Oréele. We write in sand, our language grows, And like the tide our work o'erftoics" \\ ALLER. SUBMERGE (Lnt. submergcre) denotes that the inundation has entirely drowned the... | |
| |
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. 
