 O early ripe! to thy abundant store What could advancing age have added more? It might (what nature never gives the young) Have taught the numbers of thy native tongue. But satire needs not those, and wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged...  Original Poems - Страница 230по John Dryden - 1773Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | Claude Moore Fuess - 1914 - 372 страници
...friend performed and won the race. O early ripe ! to thy abundant store 5 What could advancing age had added more ? It might, what nature never gives the young, Have taught the numbers of thy native tongue. But satire needs not those, and wit will shine Through the harsh cadence... | |
 | Mark Van Doren - 1920 - 382 страници
...Whilst his young friend performed and won the race. O early ripe! to thy abundant store What could advancing age have added more? It might (what nature never gives the young) Have taught the numbers of thy native tongue. But satire needs not those, and wit will shine Through the harsh cadence... | |
 | Thomas Stearns Eliot - 1924 - 52 страници
...Whilst his young friend performed and won the race. O early ripe ! to thy abundant store What could advancing age have added more? It might (what nature never gives the young) Have taught the numbers of thy native tongue. But satire needs not those, and wit will shine Through the harsh cadence... | |
 | John Dryden, William Congreve, Samuel Johnson, Walter Scott - 1925 - 230 страници
...While his young friend performed and won the race. O early ripe ! to thy abundant store What could advancing age have added more ? It might (what Nature never gives the young) Have taught the numbers of thy native tongue. But satire needs not those, and wit will shine 15 Through the harsh cadence... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1925 - 436 страници
...George Douglas Brown and his one grim story : — O early ripe ! to thy abundant store, What could advancing age have added more ? It might (what Nature never gives the young) Have taught the numbers of thy native tongue. But satire needs not those, and wit will shine Through the harsh cadence... | |
 | 1989 - 204 страници
...Whilst his young friend perform'd and won the race. O early ripe ! to thy abundant store What could advancing age have added more? It might (what nature never gives the young) Have taught the numbers of thy native tongue. But satire needs not those, and wit will shine Through the harsh cadence... | |
 | 1897 - 1044 страници
...Dryden, in his lines on the death of Oldham, asks : O early ripe, to thy abundant store What could advancing age have added more ? It might — what Nature never gives the young — Have taught the numbers of thy native tongue : But Satire needs not those, and Wit may shine Through the harsh cadence... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 страници
...Whilst his young friend performed and won the race. O early ripe! to thy abundant store What could advancing age have added more? It might (what nature never gives the young) Have taught the numbers of thy native tongue. But satire needs not those, and wit will shine Through the harsh cadence... | |
 | 1873 - 786 страници
...reserves one excellence as unattainable, short of mellow maturity : " What could advancing age have given more ? It might (what Nature never gives the young) Have taught the numbers of thy native tongue ; But satire needs not these, and wit will shine Through the harsh cadence... | |
 | Claude Julien Rawson - 2000 - 332 страници
...turns pontifical and patronising, as Dryden suggests that the young poet couldn't scan: What could advancing Age have added more? It might )what Nature never gives the youngj Have taught the numhers of thy native Tongue. But Satyr needs not those, and Wit will shine... | |
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