| Lucius Hudson Holt - 1915 - Počet stránok 952
...it hurts with wit. We conquer'd France, but felt our captive's charm?, Her arts victorious trinmph'd lin company Waller was smooth ; but Dryden taught "| to join The varying verse, the full resounding I line, _ f... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1916 - Počet stránok 634
...the Restoration. ' We conquer'd France, but felt onr captive's charms ; Her arts victorious trinmph'd o'er our arms ; Britain to soft refinements less a foe. Wit grew polite, and numbers leam'd to flow.' De Quincey (Works, vol. 9) expatiates upon the deficiencies of this explanation of... | |
| Ernest Bernbaum - 1918 - Počet stránok 436
...it hurts with wit. We conquered France, but felt our captive's charms; Her arts victorious triumphed o'er our arms; Britain to soft refinements less a foe, Wit grew polite, and numbers learned to flow. Waller was smooth; but Dryden taught to join The varying verse, the full-resounding... | |
| Caleb Thomas Winchester - 1922 - Počet stránok 430
...general spirit and manner of French thought and speech. As Pope says, — We conquer'd France, but felt our captive's charms; Her arts victorious triumph'd...foe, Wit grew polite, and numbers learn'd to flow. Literature was also affected, of course, by the peculiar constitution of society at the time. Now the... | |
| Rose Heylbut - 1923 - Počet stránok 128
...line." Imitation of Horace, Bk. II, Ep. I. Again: (Ibid., II, 263, 266). "We conquer'd France, but felt our captive's charms; Her arts victorious triumph'd o'er our arms; Britain to soft refinement less a foe, Wit grew polite, and numbers learn'd to flow." 2s In the prologue that Pope... | |
| Milton Lodge, Kathleen M. McGraw - 1995 - Počet stránok 658
...crucial question was the dynamic relationship hetween energy and correctness: "1We conquer'd France, hut felt our captive's charms; Her Arts victorious triumph'd...soft refinements less a foe, Wit grew polite, and "2Numhers learn'd to flow. Waller was smooth; hut Dryden taught to join The varying verse, the full... | |
| Murdoch, D. (ed.) - 1971 - Počet stránok 124
...that just the medium hit, And heals with morals what it hurts with wit. 16 We conquer'd France, but felt our captive's charms; Her arts victorious triumph'd...foe, Wit grew polite, and numbers learn'd to flow. Waller was smooth ; but Dryden taught to join The varying verse, the full-resounding line, The long... | |
| Arthur Howard Galton - 1897 - Počet stránok 140
...prose, nor the polite and finished literature of the Eighteenth Century. : " We conquer'd France, but felt our captive's charms, Her arts victorious triumph'd...foe, Wit grew polite, and numbers learn'd to flow." "A man, who has not been to Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority ; " and a nation, we may add,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1926 - Počet stránok 312
...rose, that just the medium hit, And heals with Morals what it hurts with Wit. We conquer'd France, but felt our Captive's charms ; Her Arts victorious triumph'd...our arms; Britain to soft refinements less a foe, 265 Wit grew polite, and Numbers learn'd to flow. Waller was smooth; but Dryden taught to join The... | |
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