 | John Dryden - 1878 - 368 pages
...secret shame Invades his breast at Shakespeare's sacred name: Awed when he hears his godlike Roman rage, He in a just despair would quit the stage; And to an age less polished, more unskilled Does with disdain the foremost honours yield. As with the greater dead he... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 524 pages
...most correct of his ; But spite of all his pride, a secret shame Invades his breast at Shakespeare's sacred name : Awed when he hears his godlike Romans...despair would quit the stage ; And to an age less polished, more unskilled, Does with disdain the foremost honours yield. As with the greater dead he... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 524 pages
...most correct of his ; But spite of all his pride, a secret shame Invades his breast at Shakespeare's sacred name : Awed when he hears his godlike Romans...despair would quit the stage ; And to an age less polished, more unskilled, Does with disdain the foremost honours yield. As .with the greater dead he... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1882 - 484 pages
...most correct of his; But spite of all his pride, a secret shame Invades his breast at Shakespeare's sacred name: Awed when he hears his godlike Romans...despair, would quit the stage ; And to an age less polished, more unskilled, Does, with disdain, the foremost honours yield." It is remarkable, as a trait... | |
 | John Dryden, George Saintsbury, Walter Scott - English literature - 1882 - 480 pages
...most correct of his ; But spite of all his pride, a secret shame Invades his breast at Shakespeare's sacred name : Awed when he hears his godlike Romans...despair, would quit the stage ; And to an age less polished, more unskilled, Does, with disdain, the foremost honours yield." not consent that it should... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1882 - 524 pages
...most correct of his ; But spite of all his pride, a secret shame Invades his breast at Shakespeare's sacred name : Awed when he hears his godlike Romans...despair would quit the stage ; And to an age less polished, more unskilled, Does with disdain the foremost honours yield. As with the greater dead he... | |
 | Thomas Sergeant Perry - Literary Criticism - 1883 - 500 pages
...most correct of his ; But spite of all his pride, a secret shame Invades his breast at Shakspere's sacred name : Awed, when he hears his god-like Romans...quit the stage, And, to an age less polish'd, more unskiU'd, Does, with disdain, the foremost honours yield." He wearied of the couplet, and threw the... | |
 | Walter Scott - Authors, English - 1887 - 674 pages
...secret shame lu vades his breast at Shakspeare's sacred namo : Awed wb.cn he hears his godlike Romaus rage, He, in a just despair, would quit the stage...unskill'd, Does, with disdain, the foremost honours yield." It is remarkable, as a trait of character, that, though our author admitted his change of opinion on... | |
 | John Dryden, William Dougal Christie - 1893 - 780 pages
...shame Invades his breast at Shakespeare's sacred name : Awed when he hears his godlike Romans rage, 15 He in a just despair would quit the stage ; And to an age less polished, more unskilled, Does with disdain the foremost honours yield. As with the greater dead he... | |
 | Lady Strachey (Jane Maria) - English poetry - 1894 - 376 pages
...correct of his; But spite of all his pride, a secret shame speare Invades his breast at Shakespeare's sacred name : Awed when he hears his god-like Romans...unskill'd, Does with disdain the foremost honours yield. As with the greater dead he dares not strive, He would not match his verse with those who live : Let... | |
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What verse can do he has perform'd in this, Which he presumes the most correct of his; But spite of all his pride, a secret shame Invades his breast at... 
