 Our age was cultivated thus at length ; But what we gain'd in skill we lost in strength. Our builders were with want of genius curst ; The second temple was not like the first ; Till you, the best Vitruvius, come at length, Our beauties equal, but excel...  The London Magazine - Página 6491823Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 482 páginas
...rankness cur*d ; TamM us to manners, when the stage was rude ; And boisterous English wit with art indu'd. Our age was cultivated thus at length ; But what we...in strength. Our builders were with want of genius curs'd ; The second temple was not like the first : Till you, the best Vitruvius, come at length Our... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 478 páginas
...cur"d ; Tam'd us to manners, when the stage was rude ; And hoisterous English wit with art indu'd. Our age was cultivated thus at length ; But what we gain'd in skill we lost in strength. Our huilders were with want of genius curs'd ; The second temple was not like the first : Till you, the... | |
 | William Wycherley, Leigh Hunt - 1840 - 784 páginas
...cured : Tamed us to manners, when the stage was rude ; And boisterous English wit with art endued. Our age was cultivated thus at length ; But what we...come at length, Our beauties equal, but excel our strength. Firm Doric pillars found your solid base, The fair Corinthian crowns the higher space ; Thus... | |
 | William Wycherley, Leigh Hunt - 1840 - 782 páginas
...cured : Tamed us to manners, when the stage was rude ; And boisterous English wit with art endued. Our age was cultivated thus at length ; But what we...come at length, Our beauties equal, but excel our strength. Firm Doric pillars found your solid base, The fair Corinthian crowns the higher space ; Thus... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 438 páginas
...Royal house, much art and ability had been exerted, but the old masters had been still unrivalled. " Our builders were with want of genius curst, The second temple was not like the first." At length a writer had arisen who, just emerging from boyhood, had surpassed the authors of the " Knight... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 páginas
...Royal house, much. art and ability had been exerted, but the old masters had been still unrivalled. " Our builders were with want of genius curst, The second temple was not like the first." At length a writer had arisen who, just emerging from boyhood, had surpassed the authors of the " Knight... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - 1852 - 406 páginas
...rankness cured, Tamed us to manners when the stage was rude, And boisterous English wit with art indued. Our age was cultivated thus at length, But what we...come at length; Our beauties equal, but excel our strength. Firm Doric pillars found your solid base, The fair Corinthian crowns the higher space; Thus... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1853 - 596 páginas
...much art and ability had been exerted, but the old masters had been still unrivalled. " Our bnilders were with want of genius curst, The second temple was not like the first" At length a writer had arisen who, just emerging from boyhood, had surpassed the authors of the Knight... | |
 | John Dryden - 1854 - 318 páginas
...boisterous English wit with art endued. Our age was cultivated thus at length ; But what we gained in skill we lost in strength. Our builders were with...curst ; The second temple was not like the first; ' t. Till you, the best Vitruvius, come at length ; Our beauties equal, but excel our strength. Firm... | |
 | John Dryden - 1856 - 592 páginas
...cured ; Tamed us to manners, when the stage was rude ; And boisterous English wit with art indued. Our age was cultivated thus at length ; But what we...skill we lost in strength. Our builders were with wont of genius cursed ; The second temple was not like the first : Tin you, the best Vitruvius, come... | |
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