 | Alexander Pope - 1881 - 176 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 - 572 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.1 Chaucer's worst ribaldry is learned by rote," And beastly Skelton heads of houses quote : 3... | |
 | 1912 - 488 páginas
...sings." —Sempill Ballates, P. 225. Pope. The First Epistle of the Second Book of Horace. 1737*. " Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old ; It is the rust we value, not the gold. Chaucer's worst ribaldry is learned by rote, And beastly Skelton heads of houses quote : One likes... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1884 - 804 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... | |
 | William Cleaver Wilkinson - 1889 - 530 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. Pope is like Horace in being surpassingly quotable. "Above all Greek, above all Roman fame," will be... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1890 - 376 páginas
...our contempt by the resemblance being to that which is shallow. A similar instance is the couplet — Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old : It is the rust we value, not the gold. There is harmony of feeling here in the extension of the figure in the second line, that feeling being... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1899 - 534 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 learned by rote, And beastly Skelton' heads of houses quote : 1 Skelton,... | |
 | Charles John Smith - 1893 - 796 páginas
...approbation, which is a decision of judgment. Esteem is the commencement of affection."'— COQ AN. " : | wHl [sI O g4 i| x] h | [M L , Ѡa Talne, not the gold." POPE. APPREHEND. COMPREHEND. UNDERSTAND. CONCEIVE. PERCEIVE. SYNONYMS [APPREHEND}... | |
 | Lady Strachey (Jane Maria) - 1894 - 376 páginas
...Dryden. And what Timotheus was is Dryden now. From the First Epistle of the second book of Horace. ['733 AUTHORS, like coins, grow dear as they grow old; It is the rust we value, not the gold. Chaucer. Chaucer's worst ribaldry is learn'd by rote, One likes no language but the Fairy Queen; Spenser.... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1895 - 656 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... 
