 | David Ansell Slater - 1922 - 36 psl.
...ls<evit in absent'isT voids his spleen (his 'frightfulness') in vain on a foe beyond his reach . . . ' Poets that lasting marble seek Must carve in Latin or in Greek' . . . Ransack all literature and will you find in any language another three words to sum up so vividly... | |
 | Thomas Earle Welby - 1925 - 254 psl.
...matter may betray their art : Time, if we use ill-chosen stone, Soon brings a well-built palace down. Poets that lasting marble seek Must carve in Latin...; our language grows, And, like the tide, our work o'erflows. Edmund Waller. PAST ruined Ilion Helen lives, Alcestis rises from the shades ; Verse calls... | |
 | John Broadbent - 1973 - 364 psl.
...matter may betray their art; Time, if we use ill-chosen stone, Soon brings a well-built palace down. Poets that lasting marble seek Must carve in Latin...sand, our language grows, And like the tide, our work o'er flows. Of English verse Waller's use of rhyme here, his self-conscious 'Englishness', and his... | |
 | Sanford Levinson, Steven Mailloux - 1988 - 524 psl.
...So in the seventeenth century the poet Edmund Waller renewed Horace's complaint with a difference: Poets that lasting marble seek Must carve in Latin or in Greek; We write in sand ....*' What the elegist mainly desires is some sign that, despite the death of the body, the deceased... | |
 | George T. Wright - 1988 - 366 psl.
...complexity to the classical quantitative meters. As Edmund Waller still could put it a century later: "Poets that lasting marble seek, / Must carve in Latin, or in Greek" (198). In Well-Weighed Syllables, Derek Attridge has told, with clarity and understanding, the story... | |
 | Manfred Görlach - 1991 - 492 psl.
...matter may betray their art; 10 Time, if we use ill-chosen stone, Soon brings a well-built palace down. Poets that lasting marble seek, Must carve in Latin,...or in Greek; We write in sand, our language grows, /5 And, like the tide, our work o'erflows. Chaucer his sense can only boast; The glory of his numbers... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 psl.
...MePo; OBS; SeCP; TrGrPo; WiR Of English Verse 3 Poets that lasting Marble seek Must carve in Latine or in Greek, We write in Sand, our Language grows, And like the Tide our work o'erflows. (1. 13 — 16) NAEL-1; OAEL-1; OBS; PoE; SeCP Of The Last Verses In the Book 4 The soul's... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 psl.
...matter may betray their art: lu Time, if we use ill-chosen stone, Soon brings a well-built palace down. Poets that lasting marble seek, Must carve in Latin...sand, our language grows, And like the tide, our work o'erflows. Chaucer his sense can only boast; The glory of his numbers lost; Years have defaced his... | |
 | Sean Kelsey - 1997 - 272 psl.
...mak'st his song to vail it's Bonnet to our English Tongue'.43 In the 1640s the poet Waller wrote that 'Poets that lasting marble seek / Must carve in Latin or in Greek', and that he who wrote in English built on shifting sands. Not until the eighteenth century and the... | |
 | Houghton Mifflin Company - 1997 - 276 psl.
...are chronic. Aren't you my new neighbor? Great! Let's go! 2. The first word of each line in a poem: Poets that lasting marble seek Must carve in Latin or in Greek. — Edmund Waller 3. The first word of a direct quotation unless it is closely woven into the sentence:... | |
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Poets that lasting marble seek Must carve in Latin or in Greek; We write in sand, our language grows, And, like the tide, our work o'erflows. 
