 | Virgil - 1803 - 364 Seiten
...of Roscommon, if applied to the Romans, rather, I fear, than to the English, since his own death : one sterling line, Drawn to French wire, would through whole pages shine. ' .. . ; i Another rule is, that the characters should represent that ancient innocence, and unpractised... | |
 | Publius Vergilius Maro - 1806 - 310 Seiten
...earl of Roscommon, if applied to the Romans, rather, 1 fear, than to the English, since his own death: one sterling line, Drawn to French wire, would through whole pages shine. Another rule is, that the characters should represent that ancient innocence, and unpractised plainness,... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 442 Seiten
...of Roscommon, if applied to the Romans, rather, I fear, than to the English, since his own death : -one sterling line, Drawn to French wire, would through whole pages shine. Another rule is, that the characters should represent that ancient innocence, and unpractised plainness,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 436 Seiten
...of Roscommon, if applied to the Romans, rather, I fear, than to the English, since his own death : -one sterling line, Drawn to French wire, would through whole pages shine. Another rule is, that the characters should represent that ancient innocence, and unpractised plainness,... | |
 | 1813 - 432 Seiten
...of Roscommon, if applied to the Romans, rather, I iear, than to the English, since his own death : one sterling line, Drawn to French wire, would through whole pages shine. Another rule is, that the characters should represent that ancient innocence, and unpractised plainness,... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 444 Seiten
...of Roscommon, if applied to the Romans, rather, I fear, than to the English, since his own death : one sterling line, Drawn to French wire, would through whole pages shine. Another rule is, that the characters should represent that ancient innocence, and unpractised plainness,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 272 Seiten
...Earl of Roscommon, if applied to the Romans, rather, I fear, than to the English, since his own death: one sterling line, Drawn to French wire, would through whole pages shine. Another rule is, that the characters should represent that ancient innocence, and unpractised plainness,... | |
 | 1826 - 782 Seiten
...regard to rythm or cadence, and, accordingly, to murder the familiar lines of Roscommon, ' The weighty bullion of one sterling line, Drawn to French wire, would through whole pages shine,' by metamorphosing them into the following jargon — * A weighty Bullion of one sterling line, Drawn... | |
 | Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1827 - 390 Seiten
...I'entortillement. And Lord Roscommon would be more in the right now, than he was then, in saying, that The English bullion of one sterling line, Drawn to French wire, would through whole pages shine. Lose no time, my dear child, I conjure you, in forming your taste, your manners, your mind, your every... | |
 | James Edward Smith - 1832 - 630 Seiten
...acquisition of materials to which he never had access, tends to improve and augment the history of w hat he had left imperfect. His language, his definitions...every day more and more sensible of the value of the Linnaean style, in proportion as the number of those who can attain it is evidently so very small.... | |
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The weighty bullion of one sterling line Drawn to French wire would through whole pages shine. 
