 | Sir John Denham - English drama - 1709 - 354 pages
...flower Nature got the ftart j But both in him fo equal are, None knows which bears the happy'ft (hare 5 To him no Author was unknown, Yet what he wrote was all his own ; He melted not the ancient Gold, Nor, with Ben Johnfon, did make bold To plunder all the Roman ftores... | |
 | John Dryden, John Milton, William D'Avenant - 1716 - 418 pages
...flower Nature got the ftartj But both in him fo equal are, None knows which beats the happy'ft iharej To him no Author was unknown, Yet what he wrote was all his own j He melred not the ancient Gold, Nor with Ben Johnfan did make bold To plunder all the "Roman Stores... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1777 - 658 pages
...flower Nature got the ftart ; But both in him fo equal are, None knows whieh bears the happieft ihare. To him no author was unknown, Yet what he wrote was all his own ; 30 He melted not the aneient gold, Nor, with Ben. Johnfon, did make bold To plunder all the Roman... | |
 | samuel johnson - 1779 - 342 pages
...paffions, fome '' were known " To wifh, for the defence, the crime " their own. " Now private pity flrove with pub" lick hate, " Reafon with rage, and eloquence...no author was unknown, " Yet what he wrote was all bis " own; " Horace's wit, and Virgil's ftate r . " He did not fteal, but emulate ! " And when he would... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 486 pages
...flower Nature got the ftart ; But both in him fo equal are, None knows which bears the happieft mare : To him no author was unknown, Yet what he wrote was all his own ; He melted not the ancient gold, Nor, with Ben Jonfon, did make bold To plunder all the Roman ftores... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 494 pages
...were known f To wifh, for the defence, the crime their own, t(> Now private pity flrove with publick hate, " Reafon with rage, and eloquence with fate,"...wrote was all his own ; " Horace's wit, and Virgil's ftatc, " He did not ftcal, but emulate ! " And when he would like them appear, " Their garb, h,ut not... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Poets, English - 1790 - 508 pages
...their own. " Now private pity ftrove with publick hate, " Reafon with rage, and eloquence with fate.' 1 On Cowley. " To him no author was unknown, ** Yet what he wrote was all his own; " Horace's " Horace's wit, and Virgil's ftate, " He did not (leal, but emulate! " And when he would like them... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pages
...To wifh, for the defence, the crime their own. " Now private pity ftrove with publick hate, " Rcafon with rage, and eloquence with fate." On Cowley. "...wrote was all his own; " Horace's wit, and Virgil's Hate, " He did not fleal, but emulate! " And when he would like them appear, " Their garb, but not... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1795 - 610 pages
...wifh, for the defence, the crime their " own. fc Now private pity ftrove with publick hate, " Rcafoa with rage, and eloquence with fate." On Cowley. "...unknown, " Yet what he wrote was all his own ; " Horace's " Horace's wit, and Virgil's ftate, " He did not fteal, but emulate! " And when he would like them... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 740 pages
...flower Nature got the dart ; But both in him fo equal are, None knows which bears the happicft fhare. To him no author was unknown, Yet what he wrote was all his own ; He melted not the ancient gold, Nor, with Ben. Johnfon, did make bold To plunder all the Roman ftores... | |
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Horace his wit and Virgil's state He did not steal, but emulate! And when he would like them appear, Their garb, but not their clothes, did wear. 
