 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...  Conversations at Cambridge - Sivu 193tekijä(t) Charles Valentine De Grice - 1836 - 299 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | John Cann Bailey - 1900 - 330 sivua
...Nisus fell upon the slippery place, Whilst his young friend performed and won the race. O early ripe1 to thy abundant store What could advancing age have...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 line. A noble... | |
 | 1897 - 1044 sivua
...is-needed to do justice to their thoughts. Thus Dryden, in his lines on the death of Oldham, asks : O early ripe, to thy abundant store What could advancing...young — Have taught the numbers of thy native tongue : But Satire needs not those, and Wit may shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line. Horace... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 sivua
...arrive. Thus Nisus fell upon the slippery place, Whilst his young friend performed and won the race. O early ripe! to thy abundant store What could advancing...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 line. A noble... | |
 | 1873 - 786 sivua
...reserves one excellence as unattainable, short of mellow maturity : " What could advancing age have given more ? It might (what Nature never gives the young) Have taught the numbers of thy native tongue ; But satire needs not these, and wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged Everybody desires... | |
 | Claude Julien Rawson - 2000 - 332 sivua
...elegiac quickly turns pontifical and patronising, as Dryden suggests that the young poet couldn't scan: What could advancing Age have added more? It might )what Nature never gives the youngj Have taught the numhers of thy native Tongue. But Satyr needs not those, and Wit will shine... | |
 | Emerson R. Marks - 1998 - 428 sivua
...if at all, only after years of practical experience. The gifted John Oldham never lived to reach it. What could advancing Age have added more? It might...gives the young) Have taught the numbers of thy native Tongue.-'5 In the preface to the Acneid, Dryden reports having for sometime been gathering materials... | |
 | Olga Fischer, Max Nänny - 2001 - 412 sivua
...distance: Thus Nisus fell upon the slippery place, While his young Friend perform'd and won the Race. O early ripe! to thy abundant store What could advancing Age have added more?5 In the race between the older Nisus and the young Euryalus at the funeral of Anchises (Aenid... | |
 | Paul Hammond - 2002 - 484 sivua
...arrive. Thus Nisus fell upon the slippery place, While his young friend performed and won the race.* 10 O early ripe! to thy abundant store What could advancing...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 line: A noble... | |
 | John Dryden - 2003 - 1024 sivua
...arrive. Thus Nisus fell upon the slippery place,0 While his young friend performed and won the race. O early ripe — to thy abundant store What could...gives the young) Have taught the numbers of thy native tongue.0 But satire needs not those, and wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line:... | |
 | T. S. Eliot - 2006 - 300 sivua
...arrive. Thus Nisus fell upon the slippery place, Whilst his young friend performed and won the race. O early ripe! to thy abundant store What could advancing...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 line. A noble... | |
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