 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 168 páginas
...partial in the rest : Foes to all living worth except your own, And advocates for folly dead and gone. Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old; It is the rust we value, not the gold. Chaucer's worst ribaldry is learn'd by rote, And beastly Skelton heads of houses quote : One likes... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 páginas
...partial in the rest : Foes to all living worth except your own, And advocates for folly dead and gone. Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old ; It is the rust we value, not the gold. Chaucer's worst ribaldry is learn'd by rote, And beastly Skelton1 heads of houses quote : One likes... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1873 - 814 páginas
...favor of innovation, the other of conservation. Pope ridiculed a love for the rust of antiquity. " Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old ; It is the rust we value, not the gold." Shakspeare, on the other hand, in Love's Labor Lost, Act V., scene i., makes one of his characters... | |
 | John Walker Vilant Macbeth - 1875 - 558 páginas
...so are graceful archaisms. Indeed, we are apt to value mere antiquity too highly ; as Pope has it: " Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old ; It is the rust we value, not the gold." A certain tone of old days may pervade a whole work like a subtile essence, as it doth Spenser's "... | |
 | 1877 - 1284 páginas
...period, and even of Baudelocque himself," etc. Without acceding to the truth of Pope's couplet — "Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old ; It is the rust we value, not the gold," 1 "An honor rarely, if ever, bestowed on any similar work." — History of American Medical Literature.... | |
 | 1898 - 488 páginas
...zeitgenössische litteratur aber missachte, und es heisst dort v. 35 — 38: Autliors, like coins, grow dear äs they grow old; It is the rust we value, not the gold. Chaucer' s worst ribaldry is learn'd by rote, And benstly Skelton Heads of Hoiises quote: worauf dann... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 636 páginas
...partial in the rest : Foes to all living worth except your own, And advocates for folly dead and gone. Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old ; It is the rust we value, not the gold. Chaucer's worst ribaldry is learn'd by rote, And beastly Skelton heads of houses quote : One likes... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 642 páginas
...partial in the rest : Foes to all living worth except your own, And advocates for folly dead and gone. Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old ; It is the rust we value, not the gold. Chaucer's worst ribaldry is learn'd by rote, And beastly Skelton heads of houses quote : One likes... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1881 - 196 páginas
...partial in the rest : Foes to all living worth except your own, And advocates for folly dead and gone. Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old; It is the rust we value, not the gold. Chaucer's worst ribaldry is learn'd by rote, And beastly Skelton heads of houses quote : One likes... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 632 páginas
...partial in the rest: Foes to all living worth except your own, And advocates for folly dead and gone. Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old ; It is the rust we value, not the gold. Chaucer's worst ribaldry is learn'd by rote, And beastly Skelton heads of houses quote : One likes... | |
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Your People, Sir, are partial in the rest: Foes to all living worth except your own, And Advocates for folly dead and gone. Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old; It is the rust we value, not the gold. Chaucer's worst ribaldry is learn'd by... 
