 | Frederick Locker-Lampson, Coulson Kernahan - 1891 - 452 pagina’s
...matter may betray their art: Time, if we use ill-chosen stone, Soon brings a well-built palace down. Poets, that lasting marble seek, Must carve in Latin...boast,— The glory of his numbers lost! Years have defaced his matchless strain,— And yet he did not sing in vain I This was the generous poet's scope;... | |
 | Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury - 1891 - 528 pagina’s
...superiority of the classic tongues as a means for reaching the generations to come. Waller assures us that " Poets that lasting marble seek Must carve in Latin...language grows, And like the tide, our work o'erflows." ' 1 These lines were first included were probably written considerably in the third edition of Waller's... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1892 - 316 pagina’s
...matter may betray their art : Time, if we use ill-chosen stone, Soon brings a well-built palace down. Poets, that lasting marble seek, Must carve in Latin...boast, The glory of his numbers lost ! Years have defac't his matchless strain, And yet he did not sing in vain. The beauties which adorn'd that age,... | |
 | Estelle Davenport Adams - 1894 - 432 pagina’s
...; Nor ever shall their Labours be forlorn. BARNFIELD : Sonnet II, Against the Dispraisrrs of Poetry Chaucer his sense can only boast ; The glory of his numbers lost ! Years have defaced his matchless strain ; And yet he did not sing in vain. WALLER : Of English Verse Old Chaucer,... | |
 | John Broadbent - 1973 - 364 pagina’s
...matter may betray their art; Time, if we use ill-chosen stone, Soon brings a well-built palace down. Poets that lasting marble seek Must carve in Latin...sand, our language grows, And like the tide, our work o'er flows. Of English verse Waller's use of rhyme here, his self-conscious 'Englishness', and his... | |
 | Sanford Levinson, Steven Mailloux - 1988 - 524 pagina’s
...So in the seventeenth century the poet Edmund Waller renewed Horace's complaint with a difference: Poets that lasting marble seek Must carve in Latin or in Greek; We write in sand ....*' What the elegist mainly desires is some sign that, despite the death of the body, the deceased... | |
 | George T. Wright - 1988 - 366 pagina’s
...complexity to the classical quantitative meters. As Edmund Waller still could put it a century later: "Poets that lasting marble seek, / Must carve in Latin, or in Greek" (198). In Well-Weighed Syllables, Derek Attridge has told, with clarity and understanding, the story... | |
 | Manfred Görlach - 1991 - 492 pagina’s
...matter may betray their art; 10 Time, if we use ill-chosen stone, 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, /5 And, like the tide, our work o'erflows. Chaucer his sense can only boast; The glory of his numbers... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pagina’s
...MePo; OBS; SeCP; TrGrPo; WiR Of English Verse 3 Poets that lasting Marble seek Must carve in Latine world hating, resentful, and afraid stagnant, and green, and full of slimy things. (1. (1. 13 — 16) NAEL-1; OAEL-1; OBS; PoE; SeCP Of The Last Verses In the Book 4 The soul's dark cottage,... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pagina’s
...matter may betray their art: lu Time, if we use ill-chosen stone, Soon brings a well-built palace down. Poets that lasting marble seek, Must carve in Latin...only boast; The glory of his numbers lost; Years have defaced his matchless strain; And yet he did not sing in vain. 20 The beauties which adomed that age,... | |
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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. 
