| Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 464 Seiten
...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 Moore. Sir Thomas Wiat. Henry, earl of Surrey. Sir Thomas Chaloner.... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1818 - 312 Seiten
...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 or help study. Now things daily fall ; wits grow downward, and eloquence... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 Seiten
...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 or help study. Now things daily fall ; wits grow downward, and eloquence... | |
| Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1835 - 564 Seiten
...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 or help study. Now things daily fall : wits... | |
| 1835 - 588 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 or help study. Now things daily fall, wits grow downward, and eloquence... | |
| 1841 - 632 Seiten
...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 or help a study. Now things daily fall ;... | |
| 1841 - 608 Seiten
...Jilhd up all numbers; and performed that in our own tongue which may be compared or preferred cither to insolent Greece or haughty Rome; in short, within his view, and about his time, were all the wits bora that could honour a language or help a study. Now things daily fall; wits... | |
| Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1875 - 560 Seiten
...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, or help studyT Now things daily fall, wits grow downward, and eloquence... | |
| Clement Mansfield Ingleby, Lucy Toulmin Smith - 1879 - 518 Seiten
...almost repeated verbatim in Jonson's Timber, where he points to Bacon as " he who hath fill'd up all numbers, and perform'd that in our tongue, which may...preferr'd, either to insolent Greece, or haughty Rome." (Jonson's Works, fol. 1640, p. 102.) It is indeed as applicable to Bacon's prose as to Shakespeare's... | |
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