 | William Congreve - 1888 - 540 pagina’s
...Nor call his charity their own desert. Yet I this prophesy : Thou shalt be seen, (Though with some short parenthesis between,) High on the throne of...your least praise is to be regular. Time, place, and action, may with pains be wrought, But genius must be born, and never can be taught. This is your portion,... | |
 | John Dryden, William Dougal Christie - 1893 - 780 pagina’s
...there, Not mine — that's little — but thy laurel wear. Thy first attempt an early promise made; 55 That early promise this has more than paid. So bold,...your least praise is to be regular. Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, But genius must be born, and never can be taught. 60 This is your... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1893 - 364 pagina’s
...did two hundred years ago to Congreve : And this I prophesy — thou shall be seen ( Though with some short parenthesis between) High on the throne of wit, and, seated there, Not mine (that 's little), but thy laurel wear. It would never have occurred to this great and wise man that... | |
 | Lady Strachey (Jane Maria) - 1894 - 376 pagina’s
...Nor call his charity, their own desert. Yet this I prophesy ; thou shalt be seen, (Though with some short parenthesis between) High on the throne of wit,...bold, yet so judiciously you dare, That your least pra1se is to be regular. Time, place, and action, may with pains be wrought; But genius must be born,... | |
 | Louis Du Pont Syle - 1894 - 488 pagina’s
...Nor call his charity their own desert. 50 Yet this I prophesy : Thou shalt be seen, Though with some short parenthesis between, High on the throne of wit,...laurel wear. Thy first attempt an early promise made ; 55 That early promise this has more than paid. So bold, yet so judiiiously you dare, That your least... | |
 | Louis Du Pont Syle - 1894 - 478 pagina’s
...there, Not mine — that's little — but thy laurel wear. Thy first attempt an early promise made; 55 That early promise this has more than paid. So bold,...your least praise is to be regular. Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, But genius must be born, and never can be taught. 60 This is your... | |
 | Louis Du Pont Syle - 1894 - 508 pagina’s
...Nor call his charity their own desert. 50 Yet this I prophesy : Thou shalt be seen, Though with some short parenthesis between, High on the throne of wit,...little — but thy laurel wear. Thy first attempt ar early promise made ; 55 That early promise this has more than paid. So bold, yet so judiciously... | |
 | William Congreve - 1895 - 240 pagina’s
...with some short parenthesis between) High on the throne of wit ; and seated there, Not mine (that 's little) but thy laurel wear. Thy first attempt an...your least praise is to be regular. Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, But genius must be born, and never can be taught. This is your portion,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1895 - 530 pagina’s
...Nor call his charity their own desert. Yet this I prophesy,—Thou shall be seen, Though with some short parenthesis between, High on the throne of wit, and, seated there, Not mine—that's little—but thy laurel wear. Thy first attempt an early promise made ; That early promise... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1896 - 794 pagina’s
...DRYDEN. They give the scandal, and the wise discern, Their glosses teach an age too apt to learn. DRYDEN. So bold, yet so judiciously you dare, That your least praise is to be regular. DRYDEN. He match'd their beauties where they most excel ; Of love sung better, and of arms as well.... | |
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Though with some short parenthesis between, High on the throne of wit, and seated there. Not mine — that's little — but thy laurel wear. Thy first attempt an early promise made: That early promise this has more than paid. So bold, yet so judiciously... 
