 | 1871 - 494 pages
...Our age was cultivated thus at length, 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." There would seem to be a manifest reminiscence of Waller's verse in the half-scornful emphasis which... | |
 | John Dryden - 1897 - 764 pages
...Our age was cultivated thus at length, 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, 15 Our beauties equal, but excel our strength. Firm... | |
 | The North American Review.VOL.CXII. - 1871 - 506 pages
...Our age was cultivated thus at length, 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." There would seem to be a manifest reminiscence of Waller's verse in the half-scornful emphasis which... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 586 pages
...boisterous English wit with art endued. . . . But what we gain'd in skill we lost in strength, Our builders were with want of genius curst; The second temple was not like the first.' Epistle 12 to Congreve, xi. 59. 2 ' Held up the buckler of the people's cause Against the crown, and... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1873 - 950 pages
...much art and ability had been exerted, but the old masters had been still unrivalled. " Our builders were with want of genius curst, The second temple was not like the first J' At length a writer had arisen who, just emerging from boyhood, had surpassed the authors of the... | |
 | William Wycherley - 1875 - 770 pages
...age was cultivated thus at length ; Rut wliat we gain'd in skill wo lost in strength. Our buililers were with want of genius curst ; The second temple was not like the first : 'Till you, the best Vitruvi:is, come at length, Onr beauties equal, but excel our strength. Firm... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 452 pages
...much art and ability had been exerted, but the old masters had been still unrivalled. " Our builders were with want of genius curst, The second temple...with. " Heaven that but once was prodigal before, To Shakspcare gave as much, she could not give him more." Some lines near the end of the poem are singularly... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 454 pages
...Our age was cultivated thus at length, 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.". There would seem to be a manifest reminiscence of Waller's verse in the half-scornful emphasis which... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 524 pages
...Our age was cultivated thus at length, 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. Firm Doric... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 524 pages
...Our age was cultivated thus at length, 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. Firm Doric... | |
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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. 
