 | John Timbs - 1856 - 378 Seiten
...verses and the prophecy. • » * • Poets that lasting marble seek, Must carve in I.atin or in Greek : We write in sand, our language grows, And like the tide, our work o'ernows Waller— On English Verse. MCCI.VIII. The ordinary writers of morality prescribe to their... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 424 Seiten
...century — Waller — thus deplores the wrong done by the hand of Time to the early poets : — " 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... | |
 | Edmund Waller - 1857 - 378 Seiten
...brings a well-built palace down. 4 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. 5 Chaucer his sense can only boast; The glory of his numbers lost ! 6 The beauties which adorn 'd that... | |
 | Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - 1858 - 236 Seiten
...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. And in the art of paying compliments he won, and deserved, the laurel. JUNE 30™. SPENT ten minutes... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1858 - 252 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." Such were his misgivings as to the future, assuming that the rate of change would continue what it... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1858 - 252 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." Such were his misgivings as to the future, assuming that the rate of change would continue what it... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1859 - 248 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." Such were his misgivings as to the future, assuming that the rate of change would continue what it... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1860 - 336 Seiten
...seventeenth century — Waller — thus deplores the wrong done by the hand of Time to the early poets : — "We write in sand; our language grows, And like the tide our work overflows. Chaucer his sense can only boast, — The glory of his numbers lost; Years have defaced... | |
 | 1864 - 1238 Seiten
...the natural growth of the language : 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 the present day, slang is assimilated with lamentable facility. It enters largely into the composition... | |
 | 1864 - 632 Seiten
...the natural growth of the language : Poets that lasting marble seek Must carve in Lutin or in Greek : We write in sand ; our language grows, And, like the tide, our work o'erflows. Tn the present day, slang is assimilated with lamentable facility. It enters largely into the composition... | |
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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. 
