 | Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - 1864 - 362 Seiten
...phrase, as in the following lines : "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'erfiows." And in the art of paying compliments he won, and deserved, the laurel. THE RAINBOW. 207... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1866 - 910 Seiten
...the case, and to imagine that these last never pass, as they frequently do, into metamorphic Tocks. The poet Waller, when lamenting over the antiquated...sand, our language grows, And. like the tide, our wort o'erflows. But the reverse is true in geology ; for here it is our work which continually outgrows... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - 1867 - 376 Seiten
...brings a well-built palace down. 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. Chaucer his sense can only boast, — The glory of his numbers lost ! Years have defaced his matchless... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1868 - 348 Seiten
...that dies, our language fails. ' 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.' How his misgivings, which assume that the rate of change would continue what it had been, have been... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1870 - 352 Seiten
...that dies, our language fails. ' 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.' How his misgivings, which assume that the rate of change would continue what it had been, have been... | |
 | Charles John Smith - 1871 - 630 Seiten
...remained for some weeks submerged." "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'cr/îows." ' Waller. SUBMERGE (Lat. stibmergere, to drown) denotes that the inundation has entirely... | |
 | James Brodie - 1873 - 162 Seiten
...And as that dies our language fails. 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." In consequence, however, of the popularity of Shakespeare and other writers of that time, and more... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 Seiten
...they discreetly blot. WALLER. 414 415 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. WALLER : On English Verse. Poets may boast, as safely vain, Their works shall with the world remain... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 840 Seiten
...brings a well-built palace down. Poets, that lasting marble seek, Must carve in Latin or in Greek : on Chaucer his sense can only boast. The glory of his numbers lost ! Years have dcfuc'd his matchless... | |
 | THOMAS ARNOLD - 1876 - 312 Seiten
...Waller's poem, Of English Verse:— 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. Chaucer his sense can only boast, The glory of his numbers lost — Years have defaced his matchless... | |
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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. 
