 | Lady Strachey (Jane Maria) - 1894 - 376 pagina’s
...Wycherly. Tuned us to manners, when the stage was rude ; And boisterous English wit with art indued. Our age was cultivated thus at length ; But what we gain'd in skill we lost in strength. Our builders were with want of genius cursed ; The second temple was not... | |
 | Hazelton Spencer - 1927 - 452 pagina’s
...awe; they recognized vaguely a grandeur that was not characteristic of their own art. Dryden wrote: Our age was cultivated thus at length, But what we gain'd in skill we lost in strength. Our builders were with want of genius curst; The second temple was not like... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1928 - 110 pagina’s
...difference between ourselves and the Victorians. But unlike some of us he spoke of the older men as giants: Our Age was cultivated thus at length, But what we gain'd in Skill we lost in Strength. Our Builders were with Want of Genius curst ; The second Temple was not... | |
 | Philip Abbott - 1996 - 302 pagina’s
...feel the anxiety of influence with agonizing acuteness, epitomized by Dryden's poem of self-criticism: "Our Age was cultivated thus at length / But what we gain'd in skill we lost in strength, / Our builders were, with want of Genius curst; / The Second Temple was... | |
 | John T. Lynch - 2003 - 244 pagina’s
...Wit; Theirs was the Gyant Race, before the Flood; And thus, when Charles Return 'd, our Empire stood. Our Age was cultivated thus at length; But what we gain'd in skill we lost in strength. Our Builders were, with want of Genius, curst; The second Temple was not... | |
 | Michael Alexander - 2007 - 348 pagina’s
...Civil War and Interregnum had drowned the Giants: there would be no more Shakespeares and Jonsons. 'Our Age was cultivated thus at length;/ But what we gain'd in skill we lost in strength.'10 Alexander Pope's Essay on Criticism and Essay on Man both assume that... | |
 | Jerome Meckier, Bernfried Nugel - 2006 - 244 pagina’s
...with force of Arms, and dint of Wit; Theirs was the Gyant Race before the Rood; whereas Dryden adds: Our Age was cultivated thus at length; But what we gain'd in skill we lost in strength. Quoted in W. Jackson Bate, The Burden of the Past and the English Poet (New... | |
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Our age was cultivated thus at length ; But what we gain'd in skill we lost in strength. 
