 When we for age could neither read nor write, The subject made us able to indite; The soul, with nobler resolutions decked, The body stooping, does herself erect. No mortal parts are requisite to raise Her that, unbodied, can her Maker praise. The seas...  Quips and Cranks - Seite 157von Tom Hood - 1861 - 390 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Edmund Waller - 1722 - 364 Seiten
...LinguisVirgmibus Puerlfc^ue canto. Horar. Of the lafl VERSES in the BOOK. XTT HEN we for Age cou'd neither read nor write, The Subject made us able to indite. The Soul with nobler Refblutions deckt, The Body ftooping, does her felf erect: No mortal Parts are requifite to raife Her,... | |
 | Edmund Waller - 1768 - 366 Seiten
...kingdom, and thy giery raife.Favftc linguist * * * * yirgitiiliis puirifque canti. ' On the foregoing DIVINE POEMS. WHEN we for age could neither read, nor write, The fubject made us able to indite : The foul, with nobler refolutions deckt, The body flooping, does herfelf... | |
 | Edmund Waller - 1806 - 320 Seiten
...and thy glory raise. Favete lingnis ! • • • Virginibus puerisque canto. HOIL ONTHE FOREGOING DIVINE POEMS. WHEN we for age could neither read nor write, The subject made us able to indite : The sonl, with nobler resolutions deckt, The body stooping, does herself erect. No mortal parts are requisite... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1819 - 644 Seiten
...kingdom, and thy glory raise. Favete linguis! Virginibus puerisque canto. Horat. o* THE FOREGOIXG DIVIXE POEMS«. WHEN we for age could neither read nor write,...subject made us able to indite : The soul, with nobler resolutions deck'd, • The body stooping, does herself erect : No mortal parts arc requisite to raise... | |
 | William Godwin - 1831 - 614 Seiten
...after completing fourscore years of age, expresses himself in these affecting and interesting couplets. When we for age could neither read nor write. The subject made us able to indite. The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light by chinks that time hath made : Stronger... | |
 | William Godwin - 1831 - 504 Seiten
...after completing fourscore years of age, expresses himself in these affecting and interesting couplets. When we for age could neither read nor write, The subject made us able to indite. The soul-s dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light by chinks that time hath made: Stronger... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1845 - 466 Seiten
...eighty years old ; and he has Jiimself intimated that his bodily faculties were now almost gone : — When we for age could neither read nor write, The subject made us able to indite. Waller, therefore, as well as Milton, Cowley, and Butler, may be considered to have formed his manner... | |
 | 1853 - 560 Seiten
...however dear, Waste one hope, one fear for me SlIRLLKT 3()4 THE MIND SUPERIOR TO THE RODY'S INFIRMITIES. WHEN we for age could neither read nor write, The subject made us able to endite : The soul, with nobler resolutions deckt, The body stooping, does herself erect. No mortal... | |
 | Edmund Waller - 1854 - 276 Seiten
...raise. Farete linguis I Virginibus puerisque canto. — HOB. ON THE FOREGOING DIVINE POEMS. TTTHEN we for age could neither read nor write, * » The...subject made us able to indite; The soul, with nobler resolutions decked, The body stooping, does herself erect. No mortal parts are requisite to raise Her... | |
 | Edmund Waller - 1857 - 404 Seiten
...Dot ikit u»aL uz I~ : ^ -.:: ; ^-7 — -- Kxalt tjLT ^""i^'-ttB KI ; T^ »•-.—. ON THE FOREGOING DIVINE POEMS. WHEN we for age could neither read nor...subject made us able to indite; The soul, with nobler resolutions deck'd, The body stooping, does herself erect. No mortal parts are requisite to raise Her... | |
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