 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1878 - 788 pages
...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...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 remain:... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - English language - 1881 - 408 pages
...daily changing tongue ? While they are new, envy prevails, And as that dies, our language fails. ' Poets that lasting marble seek Must carve in Latin...language grows, And like the tide our work o'erflows.' How his misgivings, which assume that the rate of change would continue what it had been, have been... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1885 - 530 pages
...dies, our language fails. Time, if we use ill-chosen stone, Soon brings a well-built palace6 down. Poets that lasting marble seek, Must carve in Latin...language grows, And, like the tide,' our work o'erflows. Here is an able and well-read man, expressing a fear, almost at the beginning of the eighteenth century,... | |
 | United States. Office of Education, Isaac Edwards Clarke - Drawing - 1885 - 1122 pages
...European scholars. " But who can hope his line should long Last, in a daily changing tongue t * • * m * Poets, that lasting marble seek, Must carve in Latin...sand, our language grows, And, like the tide, our work o'erflowe." PUBLIC EDUCATION-INCREASE OF WEALTH IN THE UNITED STATES. Publie education in the United... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - English poetry - 1889 - 406 pages
...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...language grows, And, like the tide, our work o'erflows. Chaucer his sense can only boast, — The glory of his numbers lost I Years have defaced his matchless... | |
 | Charles John Smith - English language - 1890 - 802 pages
...remained for some weeks submerged." " Poets thai lasting marble seek Must carve in Latin or in Oréele. We write in sand, our language grows, And like the tide our work o'erftoics" \\ ALLER. SUBMERGE (Lnt. submergcre) denotes that the inundation has entirely drowned the... | |
 | Thomas R. Lounsbury - 1891 - 528 pages
...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...language grows, And like the tide, our work o'erflows." ' 1 These lines were first included were probably written considerably in the third edition of Waller's... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson, Coulson Kernahan - English poetry - 1891 - 452 pages
...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...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 matchless... | |
 | James Baldwin - English poetry - 1892 - 316 pages
...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...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 matchless... | |
 | William Duguid Geddes - College verse, Scottish - 1895 - 434 pages
...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,... | |
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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. 
