 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 828 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.1' At length a writer had arisen who, just emerging from boyhood, had surpassed the authors of... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1882 - 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 Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1883 - 874 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...the Knight of the Burning Pestle and of the Silent \Voman, and who had only one rival left to contend with. " Heaven, that but once was prodigal before,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1883 - 876 pages
...exerted, but the old masters had been still unrivalled. " Onr builders were with want of genius cur.it, Mars into \Var, and Bacchus into Festivity, so there...be no stronger sign of a mind truly poetical than a surpawed the authors of the Knight of the Burning IV.-ilc and of the Silent »\oman, and who had only... | |
 | Thomas Sergeant Perry - 1883 - 500 pages
...Our age was cultivated thus at length, But what we gaiu'd 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, came at length, Our beauties equal, but excel our strength." When we... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1885 - 916 pages
...been exerted, but the old masters had been still unrivalled. "Our builders were with want of genias BRTDing Pestle and of the Silent Woman, and who had only ono rival left to contend with. " Heaven,... | |
 | WILLIAM CONGREVE - 1887 - 556 pages
...still unrivalled. " Our builders were with want of genius • The second temple was not like the li At length a writer had arisen who, just emerging from boyhood, had surpassed the authors of The ]\ night of the Burning Pestle and of The and who had only one rival left to contend with. "Heaven,... | |
 | William Congreve - 1888 - 540 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... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 434 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 1 Usually printed arms, bnt Dryden certainly wrote... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 462 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 1 Usually printed arms, bnt Dryden certainly wrote... | |
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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. 
