 | Alexander Pope - 1896 - 112 Seiten
...Latin. So Waller 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. " 484. So when the faithful pencil. "Nothing," says Warton, commenting on these lines, "was ever more... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1896 - 794 Seiten
...they discreetly blot. WALLER. 414 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... | |
 | Richard Brathwaite - 1901 - 124 Seiten
...bound in zeal to offer praise." " Poets that Listing marble seek Must carve ill 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 Brathwaite - 1901 - 168 Seiten
...th' immortall honor of our clime. " Pools 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'erflowe ! " " Chaucer his sense can only boast The glory of his Numbers lost ! Years have defaced... | |
 | Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) - 1913 - 280 Seiten
...thing of English poetry : Who can hope his lines should long Last in a daily changing tongue . . . We write in sand, our language grows, And like the tide our work o'erflows. But what really antiquated the historians of the eighteenth century was not the growth of the language,... | |
 | Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) - 1913 - 280 Seiten
...thing of English poetry : Who can hope his lines should long Last in a daily changing tongue . . . We write in sand, our language grows, And like the tide our work o'erflows. But what really antiquated the historians of the eighteenth century was not the growth of the language,... | |
 | University of Calcutta - 1913 - 816 Seiten
...trust the treason of a Scot ! (e) Poets that lasting marble seek Must carve in Latin, or in Greek ; We write in sand, our language grows And, like the tide, our \vork o'erflows. Chaucer his sense <an only boast. The glory of his numbers lost! Years have defaced... | |
 | Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon - 1908 - 582 Seiten
...Muses Library, 1904, vol. ii. p. 70.) Poets that lasting Marble seek Must carve in Latins or in Greek, We write in Sand, our Language grows, And like the Tide our work o're flows. Chaucer his Sense can only boast, The glory of his numbers lost, Years have dcfac'd his... | |
 | Thomas Earle Welby - 1925 - 254 Seiten
...Soon 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. Edmund Waller. PAST ruined Ilion Helen lives, Alcestis rises from the shades ; Verse calls them forth... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1928 - 244 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'erflows." JUNE THE THIRTIETH SPENT ten minutes in watching— " 'Mid the deep umbrage of a green hill's side... | |
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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. 
