 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 464 Seiten
...learned and able (though unfortunate) successor, is he who hath filled up all numbers, and performed that in our tongue, which may be compared or preferred either to insolent Greece, or haughty Rome. In short, within his view, and about his times, were all the wits born, that could honour n- Sir Thomas... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1818 - 312 Seiten
...(though unfortunate) successor, [Lord Bacon] is he, who hath filled up all members, and performed that in our tongue, which may be compared or preferred, either to insolent Greece or haughty Rome. In short, within his view, and about his times, were all the wits born, that could honour a language... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 Seiten
...(though nnfortunatn) successor, [Lord Bacon] is he, who hath filled up all members, and performed that in our tongue, which may be compared or preferred, either to insolent Greece or haughty Rome. In short, within his view, and about his times, were all the wits born, that could honour a language... | |
 | 1832 - 614 Seiten
...genius, so late as within these last three centuries, was herself destitute of a native literature. How " that was performed in our tongue which may be...preferred, either to insolent Greece or haughty Rome," as one of our great poets has nobly expressed himself, becomes a philological tale for an English philosopher,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 740 Seiten
...learned and able though unfortunate successor is he, who hnthjiird up all numbers, and performed that in our tongue which may be compared or preferred either to insolent Greece or haughty Rome." Again, in his 95th Epigram : " I should believe the soule of Tacitus " In thee, most worthie Savile,... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1835 - 564 Seiten
...(though unfortunate successor) is he who hath filled up all numbers; and performed that in our own tongue which may be compared or preferred either to insolent Greece or haughty Rome ; in short, within his view and about his time were all the wits born that could honour a language... | |
 | 1839 - 592 Seiten
...learned and able (though unfortunate) successor, is he who hath filled up all numbers, and performed that in our tongue which may be compared or preferred either to insolent Greece or haughty Rome ; in short, within his view, and about his times, were all the wits born that could honour a language... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1841 - 428 Seiten
...Bale; and the Romanist John Heywood, the Court Jester . . . 389 Roger Ascham ...... 395 AMENITIES OF LITERATURE. THE DRUIDICAL INSTITUTION. ENGLAND, which...severed from all nations, where are we to seek for our ABORIGINES ? AWelsh triad — and a Welsh is presumed to be a British — has commemorated an epoch... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1841 - 426 Seiten
...Bale; and the Romanist John Heywood, the Court Jester . . . 389 Roger Ascham ...... 395 AMENITIES or LITERATURE. THE DRUIDICAL INSTITUTION. ENGLAND, which...severed from all nations, where are we to seek for our ABORIGINES ? AWelsh triad — and a Welsh is presumed to be a British — has commemorated an epoch... | |
 | 1841 - 632 Seiten
...though unfortunate successor, is he who hath jlllr.it up all numbers; and performed that in our own tongue which may be compared or preferred either to insolent Greece or haughty Rome ; in short, within his view, and about his time, were all the wits born that could honour a language... | |
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But his learned and able (though unfortunate) successor, is he who hath filled up all numbers, and performed that in our tongue, which may be compared or preferred either to insolent Greece, or haughty Rome. 
