 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1858 - 252 sayfa
...a 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." Such were his misgivings as to the future, assuming that the rate of change would continue what it... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1859 - 248 sayfa
...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." Such were his misgivings as to the future, assuming that the rate of change would continue what it... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1860 - 336 sayfa
...seventeenth century — Waller — thus deplores the wrong done by the hand of Time to the early poets : — "We write in sand; our language grows, And like the tide our work overflows. Chaucer his sense can only boast, — The glory of his numbers lost; Years have defaced... | |
 | 1864 - 1238 sayfa
...daily-changing tongue ;" but he attributed the evil, not to slang, but to the natural growth of the language : Poets that lasting marble seek Must carve in Latin...language grows, And, like the tide, our work o'erflows. In the present day, slang is assimilated with lamentable facility. It enters largely into the composition... | |
 | Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - 1864 - 362 sayfa
...historical picture. Perhaps his special gift was a certain neatness of phrase, as in the following lines : "Poets that lasting marble seek, Must carve in Latin,...sand, our language grows, And, like the tide, our work o'erfiows." And in the art of paying compliments he won, and deserved, the laurel. THE RAINBOW. 207... | |
 | 1864 - 632 sayfa
...slang, but to the natural growth of the language : Poets that lasting marble seek Must carve in Lutin or in Greek : We write in sand ; our language grows, And, like the tide, our work o'erflows. Tn the present day, slang is assimilated with lamentable facility. It enters largely into the composition... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1865 - 594 sayfa
...general state of feeling, 57 Waller, the poet, who died the year before the Revolution, tells us that Poets, that lasting marble seek, Must carve in Latin or in Greek. It is delightful to contrast with this discreditable insensibility the enthusiastic admiration which... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1866 - 910 sayfa
...metamorphic Tocks. The poet Waller, when lamenting over the antiquated style of Chaucer, complains that — We write in sand, our language grows, And. like the tide, our wort o'erflows. But the reverse is true in geology ; for here it is our work which continually outgrows... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - 1867 - 432 sayfa
...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...can only boast, — The glory of his numbers lost ! Years have defaced his matchless strain, — And yet he did not sing in vain ! The beauties which... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - 1867 - 410 sayfa
...stone, Soon brings a well-built palace down. Poets, that lasting marble seek, Must carve in Latin or'in Greek : We write in sand : our language grows, And,...can only boast, — The glory of his numbers lost ! Years have defaced his matchless strain, — And yet he did not sing in vain ! The beauties which... | |
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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. 
