 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1895 - 90 страници
...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 he 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,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1896 - 520 страници
...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...own. He melted not the ancient gold, Nor, with Ben Jonson, did make bold To plunder all the Roman stores Of poets and of orators. Horace's wit and Virgil's... | |
 | John Howard Bertram Masterman - 1897 - 282 страници
...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...own ; He melted not the ancient gold, Nor with Ben J onson did make bold To plunder all the Roman stores Of poets and of orators. Horace's wit and Virgil's... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898 - 190 страници
...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...own. He melted not the ancient gold, Nor, with Ben Jonson, did make bold To plunder all the Roman stores Of poets, and of orators. Horace's wit and Virgil's... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1899 - 550 страници
...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...own ; He melted not the ancient gold, Nor, with Ben Jonson, did make bold To plunder all the Roman stores Of poets and of orators : Horace his wit and... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1901 - 812 страници
...admission for the world. — MITFORD, MARY RUSSELL, 1851, Recollections of A Literary Life, p. 46. GENERAL To him no author was unknown, Yet what he wrote was...own ; He melted not the ancient gold, Nor with Ben Jbnson, did moke bold To plunder all the Roman stores Of poets and of orators. Horace's wit and Virgil's... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1901 - 806 страници
...MITFORD, MARY RUSSELL, 1851, Recollections of A Literary Life, p. 46. GENERAL To him no author \vas 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 Of poets and of orators. Horace's wit and Virgil's... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1905 - 522 страници
...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...own. He melted not the ancient gold, Nor, with Ben Jonson, did make bold To plunder all the Roman stores Of poets and of orators. Horace's wit and Virgil's... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 582 страници
...what he writ was all his own.' Ib. xiv. 329. The last line is from Denham's elegy on Cowley : — ' To him no author was unknown, Yet what he wrote was all his own.' Ante, COWLEY, 172. For the dislike of Swift and Gay 1 to write upon other folks' hints ' see ante,... | |
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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 clothes, did wear... 
