 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1905 - 524 Seiten
...rankness 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...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... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1908 - 562 Seiten
...cured; Tamed us to manners, when the stage was rude, And boisterous English wit with art endued. 10 Our age was cultivated thus, at length, But what we...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, 15 Our... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1908 - 562 Seiten
...cured; Tamed us to manners, when the stage was rude, And boisterous English wit with art endued. 10 Our age was cultivated thus, at length, But what we...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, 15... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon - 1911 - 792 Seiten
...cured ; Tamed us to manners when the stage was rude, And boisterous English wit with art endued. 10 Our age was cultivated thus at length ; But what we...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... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon, Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson - 1911 - 792 Seiten
...us to manners when the stage was rude, And boisterous English wit with art endued. . , ; •' . 10 Our age was cultivated thus at length ; But what we gained in skill we lost in strength. . . , i. '.; Our builders were with want of genius curst ; The second temple was not like the first... | |
 | William Congreve - 1912 - 482 Seiten
...cured: Tamed us to manners, when the stage was rude; And boisterous English wit with art endued. 10 Our age was cultivated thus at length; But what we...cursed; The second temple was not like the first: n 'Till you, the best Vitruvius, n come at length, Our beauties equal, but excel our strength. Firm... | |
 | John Palmer - 1913 - 354 Seiten
...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...in strength. Our builders were with want of genius curst ; The second temple was not like the first : . . . In easy dialogue is Fletcher's praise ; He... | |
 | Theodore Whitefield Hunt - 1914 - 346 Seiten
...the time, as he calls it the age— "When critics weigh Each line and every word throughout a play, Our age was cultivated, thus, at length. But what...cursed, The second temple was not like the first. Poets, like lovers, should be bold and dare, They spoil their business with an over-care. And he who... | |
 | Theodore Whitefield Hunt - 1914 - 346 Seiten
...the time, as he calls it the age — " When critics weigh Bach line and every word throughout a play, Our age was cultivated, thus, at length. But what...want of genius cursed, The second temple was not like ttoe first. Poets, like lovers, should be bold and dare, They spoil their business with an over-care.... | |
 | Edward Young - 1917 - 150 Seiten
...writer should be born with this faculty in its full strength and vigor. Addison, Spect. No. 471. 1694: Our age was cultivated thus at length; But what we...in strength. Our builders were with want of genius curst, Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, But genius must be born, and never can be... | |
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But what we gained 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 our strength. 
