 | John Bell - English poetry - 1778 - 438 pages
...the smoothness of thy native tongue. But satire needs not those, and wit will shine i$ Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line : A noble error, and...but seldom made, When poets are by too much force betray'd. Thy gen'rous fruits, tho' gather'dcre their prime, ^ Still shew'da quickness; and maturing... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 458 pages
...the smoothness of thy native tongue. But satire needs not those ;. and vrit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line : A noble error, and...but seldom made ; When poets are by too much force betray'd. Thy gen'rous fruits, tho' gather'd ere their prime, ^ Still shew'da quickness ; and maturing... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 506 pages
...concerning the harshness of Oldham's numbers, was not unanimously subscribed to by contemporary authors. A noble error, and but seldom made, When poets are by too much force betrayed. Thy generous fruits, though gathered ere their ^ prime, / Still shewed a quickness ; and maturing time... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 500 pages
...concerning the harshness of Oldham's numbers, was not unanimously subscribed to by contemporary authors. A noble error, and but seldom made, When poets are by too much force betrayed. Thy generous fruits, though gathered ere theirprime, Still shewed a quickness ; and maturing time But... | |
 | Europe - 1810 - 560 pages
...the numbers of their native tongue -. But satire needs not these, and wit can shine -• Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line; A noble error, and but seldom made, When poets are by too much force betray d. It may be farther observed, that the labour which Mr Crabbe has bestowed upon his characters,... | |
 | 1810 - 558 pages
...tongue : But satire needs not these, and writ ca« shme Through the harsh cadence of a rugged .lme; A noble error, and but seldom made, When poets are by too much force betray 'd. " . L:r;-vi ,, -,-;; ' It may be farther observed, that the labour which Mr Crabbe has bestowed... | |
 | Classical philology - 1818 - 444 pages
...¿¡¿.адгчр eúyivs;, add the following, from Dryden's lines on the death of Oldhani the poet : A noble error, and but seldom made, When poets are by too much force betray'd. XLI. In the Diosemea of Aratus, 1. 102. (Class. Journ. No. xxxiii. p. 48.) we read --- día.... | |
 | Classical philology - 1818 - 426 pages
...а/ласт^' EÛyEvsj, add the following, from Dryden's lines on tbe death of Oldhani the poet : Л noble error, and but seldom made, When poets are by too much force betray'di XLI. In the Diosemea of Aratus, 1. 102. (Class. Journ. No. xxxiii. p. 48.) we read JV уеф«оу... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 504 pages
...concerning the harshness of Oldham's numbers, was not unanimously subscribed to by contemporary authors. y A noble error, and but seldom made, When poets are by too much force betray'd. Thy generous fruits, though gather'd ere their prime, Still shew'da quickness ; and maturing... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...taught the smoothness of thy native tongue. But satire needs not those, and wit will shine Through the his pain, Gaz'd on the fair Who caus' d his care, And sigh'd and look'd, sigh'd and look'd, Sigh'd a betray'd, [prime, Thy generous fruits, though gather'd ere their Ssill shew'da quickness ; and maturing... | |
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... early ripe ! to thy abundant store what could advancing age have added more? it might (what nature never gives the young) have taught the numbers of thy native tongue. 
