| Richard Chenevix Trench - 1873 - 302 páginas
...HACKET, Life of Archbishop Williams, part ii. p. 32. Horace's wit and Virgil's state He did not steal but emulate, And when he would like them appear, Their garb, but not their clothes, did wear. DENHAM, On the Death of Cowley. GABBLE. Writings only are ' garbled ' now ; and... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 páginas
...outlive, To Cowley scarce did ripeness give. matter," Horace's wit and Virgil's state He did not steal, but emulate; And when he would like them appear, Their garb, but not their clothes, did wear. SIR J. DENHAM. What from Jonson's oil and sweat did flow, Or what more easy nature... | |
| Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 páginas
...all the Roman stores Of poets and of orators : Horace his wit and Virgil's state He did not steal, - clothes, did wear : He not from Rome alone, but Greece, Like Jason brought the golden fleece ; To him... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 páginas
...Cowley scarce did ripeness give. matter," AUTHORS. Horace's wit and Virgil's state He did not steal, but emulate; And when he would like them appear, Their garb, but not their clothes, did wear. SIR J. DENHAM. What from Jonson's oil and sweat did flow, Or what more easy nature... | |
| Charles Anderton Read - 1879 - 404 páginas
...plunder all the Roman stores Of poets and of orators: Horace's wit and Virgil's state He did not steal, but emulate! And when he would like them appear, Their garb, but not their clothes, did wear. . EXTRACT FROM "THE SOPHY: A TRAGEDY." [Abbas, king of Persia, is led to believe... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 528 páginas
...plunder all the Roman stores Of poets and of orators. Horace's wit and Virgil's state He did not steal, but emulate, And when he would like them appear, Their garb, but not their clothes, did wear ; He not from Rome alone, but Greece, Like Jason brought the golden fleece ; To him... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 524 páginas
...plunder all the Roman stores Of poets and of orators. Horace's wit and Virgil's state He did not steal, but emulate, And when he would like them appear, Their garb, but not their clothes, did wear ; He not from Rome alone, but Greece, Like Jason brought the golden fleece ; To him... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1882 - 524 páginas
...plunder all the Roman stores Of poets and of orators. Horace's wit and Virgil's state He did not steal, but emulate, And when he would like them appear, Their garb, but not their clothes, did wear ; He not from Rome alone, but Greece, Like Jason brought the golden fleece ; To him... | |
| John Dennis - 1883 - 424 páginas
...plunder all the Roman stores Of poets and of orators. Horace's wit and Virgil's state He did not steal but emulate ; And when he would like them appear, Their garb, but not their clothes, did wear." But Cowley, deeming love the proper theme of poetry, wrote a number of verses to... | |
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