 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 510 ページ
...strove wiih public hate, Reason with rnfre, and eloquence with fate ; So did he move ihe pussions. some were known To wish, for the defence, the crime their own." He then prayed that he might be heard by his counsel upon the question, whether any of the charges... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1852 - 520 ページ
...seem'd to act that part he came to see, And none was more a looker on than he ; So did he move onr passions, some were known To wish, for the defence, the crime their own. When Mars and Venns were snrprised in Vnlcan's net, and the deities were assembled to see them, Ovid... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1853 - 838 ページ
...to make The hearers more concern'd than he that spake, Each seem'd to act that part he came to see, And none was more a looker-on than he. So did he move...some were known To wish, for the defence, the crime thrir own. Now private pity strove with public hate. Reason with rage, and eloquence with liitc. Now... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 594 ページ
...his reading sive, his acquaintance with mankind large. " To him," says Denham in his famous elegy, " To him no author was unknown, Yet what he wrote was all his own." His biographer adds, " There was nothing affected or singular in his habit, or person, or gesture ;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 ページ
...Each had an army, as an equal foe, Such was his force of eloquence, to make The hearers more concern'd than he that spake : Each seem'd to act that part...hate, Reason with rage, and eloquence with fate." On Couiley. "To him no author was unknown, ' Yet what he wrote was all his own ; Horace's wit, and Virgil's... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 ページ
...to make The hearers more concern'd than he that spake : Each seem'd to act that part he came to see, And none was more a looker-on than he. So did he move...Reason with rage, and eloquence with fate." On Cowley. 11 To him no author was unknown, Yet what he wrote was all his own ; Horace's wit, and Virgil's state,... | |
 | Mrs. S. C. Hall - 1854 - 608 ページ
...reading extensive, his acquaintance with mankind large. ' To him,' says Denham in his famous elegy, — ' To him no author was unknown, Yet what he wrote was all his own.' His biographer adds, ' There was nothing affected or singular in his habit, or person, or gesture ;... | |
 | 1855 - 576 ページ
...other writer, which is more than can be said of a great many of his brother poets. Denham says that " To him no author was unknown, Yet what he wrote was all his own." At the very same period with Cowley, Sir John Denham wrote, for he was born three years before Cowley,... | |
 | Edmund Waller - 1857 - 378 ページ
...to make The hearers more concern'd than he that spake, Each seem'd to act that part he came to see, And none was more a looker-on than he; So did he move...hate, Reason with rage, and eloquence with fate." Nor let us forget his verses on " Cowley's Death," which, although unequal, and in their praise exaggerated,... | |
 | Edmund Waller - 1857 - 404 ページ
...hearers more concern'd than he that 8liake, Each seem'd to act that part he came to see, And none mat more a looker-on than he; So did he move our passions,...hate, Reason with rage, and eloquence with fate." Nor let us forget his verses on " Cowley's Death," which, although unequal, and in their praise exaggerated,... | |
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Horace's wit, and Virgil's state, " He did not steal, but emulate ! " And, when he would like them appear, " Their garb, but not their cloaths, did wear. 
