 | Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 632 oldal
...could praise. A mortal born, he met the general doom, But left, like Egypt's kings, a lasting tomb. Themselves they studied, as they felt they writ; Intrigue...wit. Vice always found a sympathetic friend ; They pleased their age and did not aim to mend. Yet bards like these aspired to lasting praise, And proudly... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 626 oldal
...the heart : Cold approbation gave the lingering bays, For those who durst not censure scarce could praise. A mortal born, he met the general doom, But left, like Egypt's kings, a lasting tomb. Themselves they studied, as they felt they writ ; Intrigue was plot, obscenity was wit. Vice always... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1881 - 632 oldal
...assailed the heart: Cold approbation gave the lingering bays, For those who durst not censure scarce could praise. A mortal born, he met the general doom, But left, like Egypt's kings, a lasting tomb. Themselves they studied, as they felt they writ; Intrigue was plot, obscenity was wit. Vice always... | |
 | Mowbray Walter Morris - 1882 - 424 oldal
...the heart : Cold Approbation gave the lingering bays, For those, who durst not censure, scarce could praise. A mortal born, he met the general doom, But...The wits of Charles found easier ways to fame, Nor wished for Jouson's art, or Shakespeare's flame, Themselves they studied, as they felt they writ ;... | |
 | Percy Fitzgerald - 1882 - 492 oldal
...the heart. Cold approbation gave the lingering bays ; For those who durst not censure scarce could praise. A mortal born, he met the general doom, But...The wits of Charles found easier ways to fame, Nor wished for Jonson's art, or Shakespeare's flame. Themselves they studied ; as they felt they writ ;... | |
 | Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald - 1882 - 486 oldal
...tomb. The wits of Charles found easier ways to fame, Nor wished for Jouson's art, or Shakespeare's flame. Themselves they studied ; as they felt they...wit. Vice always found a sympathetic friend ; They pleased their age, and did not aim to mend. Yet bards like these aspired to lasting praise, And proudly... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1870 - 582 oldal
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 | Samuel Johnson - 1884 - 348 oldal
...essay'd the heart. Cold approbation gave the lingering lays For those who durst not censure scarce could praise. A mortal born, he met the general doom But left, like Egypt's kings, a lasting tomb. EDMUND WALLER.—He added something to our elegance of diction, and something to our propriety of thought.... | |
 | 1885 - 686 oldal
...the heart : Cold approbation gave the lingering bays, For those who durst not censure scarce could praise. A mortal born, he met the general doom, But...The wits of Charles found easier ways to fame, Nor wished for Jonson's art or Shakespeare's flame; Themselves they studied, as they felt they writ; Intrigue... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 600 oldal
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The wits of Charles found easier ways to fame, Nor wish'd for Jonson's art, or Shakspeare's flame. Themselves they studied; as they felt, they writ: Intrigue was plot, obscenity was wit. 
