 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1872 - 524 pages
...heart; Cold approbation gave the lingering bays; For those who durst not censure, scarce could prais« A mortal born, he met the general doom, But left, like Egypt's kings, a lasting tomb. Yet bards like these aspired to lasting praise, And proudly hoped to pimp in future days.... | |
 | Alexander Main - Literary Criticism - 1874 - 480 pages
...heart; Cold approbation gave the lingering bays, For those who durst not censure, scarce could praise. A mortal born, he met the general doom, But left, like Egypt's kings, a lasting tomb. The wits of Charles found easier ways to fame, Nor wished for Jonson's art, or Shakespeare's... | |
 | Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 pages
...heart ; Cold approbation gave the lingering bays, For those who durst not censure scarce could praise. A mortal born, he met the general doom, But left, like Egypt's kings, a lasting tomb. JAMES BEATTIE. 1735—1803. THE MELODIES OF MORNING. Bur who the melodies of morn can... | |
 | Charles Churchill - 1880 - 740 pages
...heart; Cold approbation gave the lingering bays, For those who durst not censure, scarce could praise. A mortal born, he met the general doom, But left, like Egypt's kings, a lasting tomb. The coxcomb felt a lash in every word, And fools, hung out, their brother fools deterr'd.... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 636 pages
...heart : Cold approbation gave the lingering bays, For those who durst not censure scarce could praise. A mortal born, he met the general doom, But left, like Egypt's kings, a lasting tomb. The wits of Charles found easier ways to fame, Nor wished for Jonson's art or Shakespeare's... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 642 pages
...heart : Cold approbation gave the lingering bays, For those who durst not censure scarce could praise. A mortal born, he met the general doom, But left, like Egypt's kings, a lasting tomb. The wits of Charles found easier ways to fame, Nor wished for Jonson's art or Shakespeare's... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1881 - 632 pages
...heart: Cold approbation gave the lingering bays, For those who durst not censure scarce could praise. A mortal born, he met the general doom, But left, like Egypt's kings, a lasting tomb. Themselves they studied, as they felt they writ; Intrigue was plot, obscenity was wit.... | |
 | Percy Fitzgerald - Theater - 1882 - 492 pages
...heart. Cold approbation gave the lingering bays ; For those who durst not censure scarce could praise. A mortal born, he met the general doom, But left, like Egypt's kings, a lasting tomb. The wits of Charles found easier ways to fame, Nor wished for Jonson's art, or Shakespeare's... | |
 | Mowbray Walter Morris - 1882 - 424 pages
...: Cold Approbation gave the lingering bays, For those, who durst not censure, scarce could praise. A mortal born, he met the general doom, But left, like Egypt's kings, a lasting tomb. The wits of Charles found easier ways to fame, Nor wished for Jouson's art, or Shakespeare's... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1884 - 348 pages
...heart. Cold approbation gave the lingering lays For those who durst not censure scarce could praise. A mortal born, he met the general doom But left, like Egypt's kings, a lasting tomb. EDMUND WALLER.—He added something to our elegance of diction, and something to our... | |
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Then Jonson came, instructed from the school, To please in method, and invent by rule... 
