 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1680 - 410 pages
...our tongue, which may be compar•d or prefcr'd, either to infolent Greece or haughty Rome. In fhort, within his view, and about his times, were all the Wits born, that could honour a language or help ftudy. Now things daily falH Wits grow downward and Eloquence goes backward... | |
 | Sir Philip Sidney - Poetry - 1787 - 158 pages
...'his learned and able (though unfortvuiate) Suc* *'t•. cejfor, is he who hath filled up all numbers, and performed that in our tongue, which may be compared, or preferred, either to infblent Greece, 6 ' or or haughty Rome. In mort, within his view, and about his times, were all the... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - Dramatists, English - 1816 - 464 pages
...provoked. 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...about his times, were all the wits born, that could honour n- Sir Thomas Moore. Sir Thomas Wiat. Henry, earl of Surrey. Sir Thomas Chaloner. Sir Thomas... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...learned and able (though nnfortunatn) successor, [Lord Bacon] is he, who hath filled up all members, and performed that in our tongue, which may be compared...about his times, were all the wits born, that could honour a language or help study. Now things daily fall ; wits grow downward, and eloquence goes backward... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
...learned and able (though unfortunate) successor, [Lord Bacon] is he, who hath filled up all members, and performed that in our tongue, which may be compared...about his times, were all the wits born, that could honour a language or help study. Now things daily fall ; wits grow downward, and eloquence goes backward... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 740 pages
...Discoveries : " But his learned and able though unfortunate successor is he, who hnthjiird up all numbers, and performed that in our tongue which may be compared...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,... | |
 | English literature - 1832 - 614 pages
...these last three centuries, was herself destitute of a native literature. How " that was performed in our tongue which may be compared, or 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,... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1835 - 564 pages
...(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...haughty Rome ; in short, within his view and about his time were all the wits born that could honour a language or help study. Now things daily fall : wits... | |
 | 1835 - 588 pages
...is be who bath filled up all ¿ambora ; end performed that in our own tongue which ¿&y be coespared 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 ianwuage or help study. Now things daily fail : wits... | |
 | 1839 - 592 pages
...provoked. 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...about his times, were all the wits born that could honour a language or help study. Now things daily fall, wits grow downward, and eloquence grows backward,... | |
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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. 
