 | 1893 - 386 páginas
...slower nature got the start; But both in him so equal are, None knows which bears the happier share: To him no author was unknown, Yet what he wrote was all his own; He melted not the ancient gold, Nor, with Ben Jonson, did make bold To plunder all the Roman stores... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1894 - 116 páginas
...was never known, But what he writ was all his own.' But the last line is stolen from Denham's verses on Cowley : ' To him no author was unknown Yet what he wrote was all his own.' " A New Series, edited for use in Schools, with Introductions and Notes. Crown 8vo. *LAMB'S ESSAYS.... | |
 | Estelle Davenport Adams - 1894 - 432 páginas
...slower Nature got the start ; But both in him so equal are, None knows which bears the happiest share ; To him no author was unknown, Yet what he wrote was all his own ; . . DENHAM : On Mr. Abraham Cawley r . . . Cowley blossomed soon, yet flourished long ; . . DRYDEN... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1895 - 90 páginas
...Johnson's Lives of the Poets. In his life of Sir John Denham Johnson quotes the following verses by Denham on Cowley: — To him no author was unknown, Yet what...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... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1895 - 530 páginas
...slower nature got the start; But both in him so equal are. None knows which bears the happiest share ; To him no author was unknown, Yet what he wrote was all his own. He melted not the ancient gold. Nor, with Ben Jonson, did make bold To plunder all the Roman stores... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1896 - 520 páginas
...slower nature got the start ; But both in him so equal are, None knows which bears the happiest share ; To him no author was unknown, Yet what he wrote was all his own. He melted not the ancient gold, Nor, with Ben Jonson, did make bold To plunder all the Roman stores... | |
 | John Howard Bertram Masterman - 1897 - 282 páginas
...slower Nature got the start ; But both in him so equal are, None knows which bears the happiest share. To him no author was unknown, Yet what he wrote was all his own ; He melted not the ancient gold, Nor with Ben J onson did make bold To plunder all the Roman stores... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898 - 190 páginas
...among which was the " Elegy on Cowley," to which Macaulay here refers. The passage is as follows : " To him no author was unknown Yet what he wrote was all his own. He melted not the ancient gold, Nor, with Ben Jonson, did make bold To plunder all the Roman stores... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1899 - 550 páginas
...slower nature got the start ; But both in him so equal are, None knows which bears the happiest share. To him no author was unknown, Yet what he wrote was all his own ; He melted not the ancient gold, Nor, with Ben Jonson, did make bold To plunder all the Roman stores... | |
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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. 
