 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 464 pàgines
...learned and able (though unfortunate) successor, is he who hath filled up all numbers, and performed that in our tongue, which may be compared or preferred either to insolent Greece, or haughty Rome. In short, within his view, and about his times, were all the wits born, that could honour n- Sir Thomas... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pàgines
...(though nnfortunatn) successor, [Lord Bacon] is he, who hath filled up all members, and performed that in our tongue, which may be compared or preferred, either to insolent Greece or haughty Rome. In short, within his view, and about his times, were all the wits born, that could honour a language... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1818 - 312 pàgines
...(though unfortunate) successor, [Lord Bacon] is he, who hath filled up all members, and performed that in our tongue, which may be compared or preferred, either to insolent Greece or haughty Rome. In short, within his view, and about his times, were all the wits born, that could honour a language... | |
 | 1832 - 614 pàgines
...genius, so late as within these last three centuries, was herself destitute of a native literature. How " that was performed in our tongue which may be...preferred, either to insolent Greece or haughty Rome," as one of our great poets has nobly expressed himself, becomes a philological tale for an English philosopher,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 740 pàgines
...learned and able though unfortunate successor is he, who hnthjiird up all numbers, and performed that in our tongue which may be compared or preferred either to insolent Greece or haughty Rome." Again, in his 95th Epigram : " I should believe the soule of Tacitus " In thee, most worthie Savile,... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1835 - 564 pàgines
...(though unfortunate successor) is he who hath filled up all numbers; and performed that in our own tongue which may be compared or preferred either to insolent Greece or haughty Rome ; in short, within his view and about his time were all the wits born that could honour a language... | |
 | 1839 - 592 pàgines
...learned and able (though unfortunate) successor, is he who hath filled up all numbers, and performed that in our tongue which may be compared or preferred either to insolent Greece or haughty Rome ; in short, within his view, and about his times, were all the wits born that could honour a language... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1841 - 428 pàgines
...Reformer Bishop Bale; and the Romanist John Heywood, the Court Jester . . . 389 Roger Ascham ...... 395 AMENITIES OF LITERATURE. THE DRUIDICAL INSTITUTION....severed from all nations, where are we to seek for our ABORIGINES ? AWelsh triad — and a Welsh is presumed to be a British — has commemorated an epoch... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1841 - 400 pàgines
...PRINTING 323 THE FIRST ENGLISH PRINTER 341 EARLY LIBRARIES 353 HENRY THE SEVENTH ... . 364 AMENITIES LITERATURE THE DRUIDICAL INSTITUTION. ENGLAND, which...severed from all nations, where are we to seek for * Ben Jon son. our ABORIGINES ? A Welsh triad, and a Welsh is presumed to be a British, has commemorated... | |
 | 1841 - 632 pàgines
...though unfortunate successor, is he who hath jlllr.it up all numbers; and performed that in our own tongue which may be compared or preferred either to insolent Greece or haughty Rome ; in short, within his view, and about his time, were all the wits born that could honour a language... | |
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But his learned and able (though unfortunate) successor, is he who hath filled up all numbers, and performed that in our tongue, which may be compared or preferred either to insolent Greece, or haughty Rome. 
