 | Frederick Locker-Lampson, Coulson Kernahan - 1891 - 452 頁
...matter may betray their art: Time, if we use ill-chosen stone, Soon brings a well-built palace down. Poets, that lasting marble seek, Must carve in Latin...sand: our language grows, And, like the tide, our work o'erflows. Chaucer his sense can only boast,— The glory of his numbers lost! Years have defaced his... | |
 | Thomas R. Lounsbury - 1891 - 528 頁
...superiority of the classic tongues as a means for reaching the generations to come. Waller assures us that " Poets that lasting marble seek Must carve in Latin...sand, our language grows, And like the tide, our work o'erflows." ' 1 These lines were first included were probably written considerably in the third edition... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1892 - 316 頁
...matter may betray their art : Time, if we use ill-chosen stone, Soon brings a well-built palace down. Poets, that lasting marble seek, Must carve in Latin...-our language grows, And, like the tide, our work o'erflows. Chaucer his sense can only boast, The glory of his numbers lost ! Years have defac't his... | |
 | 1895 - 422 頁
...in distrust of the vernacular as a vehicle, lines written at a date much later than Johnston : — " Poets that lasting marble seek Must carve in Latin or in Greek, etc." Wm. Drummond barely survives for all his English, and as for Wm. Alexander, the Earl of Stirling,... | |
 | Robert Hoe, Oscar Albert Bierstadt - 1895 - 390 頁
...copies of this edition are known to exist. Incunabula came out in an age when, as Waller phrases it, Poets that lasting marble seek, Must carve in Latin or in Greek. So these first-born books of the press are mostly in the dead languages. Not only by right of primogeniture,... | |
 | William Duguid Geddes - 1895 - 434 頁
...in distrust of the vernacular as a vehicle, lines written at a date much later than Johnston : — " Poets that lasting marble seek Must carve in Latin or in Greek, etc." Wm. Drummond barely survives for all his English, and as for Wm. Alexander, the Earl of Stirling,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1896 - 112 頁
...reasons why it was usual to have important works translated into Latin. So Waller Of English Verse : " Poets that lasting marble seek Must carve in Latin...sand : our language grows, And like the tide our work o'erflows. " 484. So when the faithful pencil. "Nothing," says Warton, commenting on these lines, "was... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1896 - 794 頁
...lose half the praise they should have got Could it be known what they discreetly blot. WALLER. 414 Poets that lasting marble seek Must carve in Latin...— our language grows, And, like the tide, our work o'erflows. WALLER : On English Verse, Poets may boast, as safely vain, Their works shall with the world... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1896 - 136 頁
...indebted to Mr. Hales for the following apposite quotation from Waller's poem, Of English Verse : — Poets that lasting marble seek Must carve in Latin...sand ; our language grows, And like the tide our work o'erflows. Chaucer his sense can only boast, The glory of his numbers lost — Years have defaced his... | |
 | Edward Arber - 1899 - 336 頁
...matter may betray their art! Time, if we use ill-chosen stone, Soon brings a well-built Palace down! Poets, that lasting marble seek, Must carve in Latin,...Greek! We write in sand ! Our language grows; And (like our tide!) ours overflows! CHAUCER, his Sense can only boast; The glory of his Numbers lost! Years... | |
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Poets that lasting marble seek Must carve in Latin or in Greek; We write in sand, our language grows, And, like the tide, our work o'erflows. 
