 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 pagina’s
...Yet what he wrote was all his own ; Horace's wit, and Virgil's state, He did not steal, but emulate I And when he would like them appear, Their garb, but not their clothes, did wear." As one of Denham's principal claims to the regard of posterity arises from his... | |
 | Edmund Waller - 1857 - 378 pagina’s
...all the Roman stores Of poets, and of orators : Horace's wit, and Virgil's state, He did not steal, but emulate! And when he would like them appear, Their garb, but not their clothes, did wear; He not from Rome alone, but Greece, To him that Language (though to none 41 Of th'... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 594 pagina’s
...all the Roman stores Of poets and of orators : Horace his wit and Virgil's state He did not steal, but emulate ; And when he would like them appear, Their garb, but not their clothes, did wear: He not from Rome alone, but Greece Like Jason bought the golden fleece ; To him... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1858 - 418 pagina’s
...did not steal, but emulate I And, when he would like them appear Their garb, bnt not their clothe*, did wear. As one of Denham's principal claims to the regard of posterity arises from his improvement of our numbers, his versification ought to be considered. It... | |
 | Henry William Dulcken - 1860 - 230 pagina’s
...was unknown, Yet what he wrote was all his own ; Horace's wit and Virgil's state He did not steal, but emulate ! And when he would like them appear, Their garb, but not their clothes, did wear. SIR. JOHN DENHAM. [SrR JOHN DENHAM, a brave and right loyal cavalier, nnd an unflinching... | |
 | Isaac Jack Reeve - 1866 - 332 pagina’s
...unknown, Yet what he wrote was all his own : Horace's wit, and Virgil's state, He (lid not steal, hut emulate ! And when he would like them appear, Their garb, but not their clothes, did wear. DENHAM. WRITTEN IN A VERY SMALL EDITION OF GRAY'S POEMS. ALL to the lofty Ode which... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 pagina’s
...plunder all the Roman stores Of poets and of orators. Horace's wit and Virgil's state He did not steal but emulate ! And when he would like them appear, Their garb, but not their clothes did wear.' 1. 19-40 : Compare with these the lines, inferior indeed, but themselves remarkable,... | |
 | 1870 - 462 pagina’s
...plunder all the Roman stores Of poets and of orators. Horace's wit and Virgil's state He did not steal but emulate ! And when he would like them appear, Their garb, but not their clothes, did wear.' 1. 19-40 : Compare with these the lines, inferior indeed, but themselves remarkable,... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1870 - 466 pagina’s
...Roman stores Of poets and of orators. Horace's wit and Virgil's state He did not steal but emulate 1 And when he would like them appear, Their garb, but not their clothes, did wear.' l. 19-40 : Compare with these the lines, inferior indeed, but themselves remarkable,... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1873 - 302 pagina’s
...HACKET, Life of Archbishop Williams, part ii. p. 32. Horace's wit and Virgil's state He did not steal but emulate, And when he would like them appear, Their garb, but not their clothes, did wear. DENHAM, On the Death of Cowley. GABBLE. Writings only are ' garbled ' now ; and... | |
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Horace's wit and Virgil's state He did not steal, but emulate, And when he would like them appear, Their garb, but not their clothes, did wear ; He not from Rome alone, but Greece, Like Jason brought the golden fleece ; To him that language, though to... 
