 | British poets - 1822 - 292 pagina’s
...advancing age have added more ? It might, what Nature never gives the young, Have taught the smoothness of thy native tongue : But satire needs not those,...are by too much force betray'd. Thy generous fruits, though gather'd ere their prime, Still show'da quickness; and maturing Time But mellows what we write... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pagina’s
...advancing age have added more ? It might (what nature never gives the young) Have taught the smoothness ses by name, who [prime, Thy generous fruits, though gather'd ere their Ssill shew'da quickness ; and maturing time... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 532 pagina’s
...deficiency, and seems to admit the subject as an apology : « O early ripe ! to thy abundant store What could advancing age have added more ! It might...shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.« Yet the apology which he admitted for Oldham, Dryden disdained to make use of himself. He did not,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 526 pagina’s
...deficiency, and seems to admit the subject as an apology : « O early ripe ! to thy abundant store What could advancing age have added more ! It might...shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line. » Yet the apology which he admitted for Oldham, Dryden disdained to make use of himself. He did not,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827 - 564 pagina’s
...this deficiency, and seems to admit the subject as an apology : " O early ripe ! to thy abundant store What could advancing age have added more ! It might...shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line." Yet the apology which he admitted for Oldham, Dryden disdained to make use of himself. He did not,... | |
 | University of Cambridge - 1830 - 636 pagina’s
...never gives the young) Have taught the smoothness of thy native tongue; But satire needs not that, and wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 516 pagina’s
...deficiency, and seems to admit the subject as an apology : — " O early ripe ! to thy abundant store What could advancing age have added more ! It might...shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line." Yet the apology which he admitted for Oldham, Dryden disdained to make use of himself. He did not,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 486 pagina’s
...early ripe ! to thy abundant store What could advancing age have added more! It might (what natur% never gives the young) Have taught the numbers of...shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line." Yet the apology which he admitted for Oldham, Dryden disdained to make use of himself. He did not,... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1836 - 312 pagina’s
...either lyre did strike, And knaves and fools we both abhorr'd alike. O early ripe! to thy abundant store What could advancing age have added more ! It might...young) Have taught the numbers of thy native tongue. * Some of Oldham's concetti are very pretty. Mr. Moore has rhymed a worse compliment than the following,... | |
 | Charles Valentine De Grice - 1836 - 322 pagina’s
...either lyre did strike, And knaves and fools we both abhorr'd alike. O early ripe! to thy abundant store What could advancing age have added more ! It might...young) Have taught the numbers of thy native tongue. * Some of Oldham's concetti are very pretty. Mr. Moore has rhymed a worse compliment than the following,... | |
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O 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. But satire needs not those, and wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged... 
