| Biography - 1762 - 560 pages
...language, like the money of that time, is as current now " as ever i whilft the other's words are like old coins, one " muft go to an antiquary to underftand...make, •* when it undertakes any thing in earneft !" The beft edition of Mr. Waller's works is that, published in 1730, 4t0, containing his poems, fpeeches,... | |
| Edmund Waller - English poetry - 1768 - 366 pages
...language, like the money of that time, is as current now at ever; whilft the other's words are like old coins, one muft go to an antiquary to underftand...true meaning and value. Such advances may a great Geoius make, when it undertakes any thing in earned! Same of Mr. WALLER'S Poems. 267 Some Painters... | |
| Edmund Waller, Percival Stockdale - 1772 - 330 pages
...language, like the money of that time, is as current now as ever; whilft the other's words are like old coins, one muft go to an antiquary to underftand...and value. Such advances may a great Genius make, wl:e» it undertakes any thing in earneft ! We i Among other improvements, we may reckon that of His... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 276 pages
...language, like the money of that time, is as current now as ever; whillt the other's words are like old coins, one muft go to an antiquary to underftand...chief lines and mafterftrokes of a face fo truly, that through all the differences of age, the picture mall (till bear a refemblance. This art was Mr. Waller's:... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 284 pages
...money,of that time, is as current now as ever; whilft the other's words are like old coins, one rnuft go to an antiquary to underftand their true meaning...chief lines and mafterftrokes of a face fo truly, that through all the differences of age, the picture mall ftill bear a rcfemblance. This art was Mr. Waller's:... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 274 pages
...language, like the money of that time, is as current now as ever; whilft the other's words are like old coins, one muft go to an antiquary to underftand...earneft! Some Painters will hit the chief lines and roafterftrokes of a face fo truly, that through all the di((erences of age, the pifture fl:all ftill... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 348 pages
...language, like the money cf that time, is as current now as ever; whilft the other's words are like old coins, one muft go to an antiquary to underftand...it undertakes any thing in earneft! Some Painters w:ll hit the chief lines and mafterftrokes of a face fo truly, that through all the differences of... | |
| Francis Atterbury - English letters - 1783 - 478 pages
...language, like the money of that time, is as current now as ever; whilft the other's words are like old coins, one muft go to an Antiquary to underftand...lines and mafter-ftrokes of a face fo truly, that through all the differences of age the picture (hall ftili bear a refemblance. This art was Mr. Waller's... | |
| Biography - 1784 - 778 pages
...language, like the " money of diat time, is as current now as ever; whilft " die other's words are like old coins, one muft go to an " antiquary to underftand...value. " Such advances may a great genius make, when it under" takes any dunk in -earneft !" " it, -and for vindicating it at fuch a price; that it had " power... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 652 pages
...whilst PREFACE. 33 the other's words are like old coins, one must go to an antiquary to understand their true meaning and value. Such advances may a great genius make, when it uudertakes any thing in earnest ! Some painters will hit the chief lines and master-strokes of a face... | |
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