 | Richard Lovelace - English poetry - 1817 - 284 pages
...fiends obey. J. NEEDIER, HOSP. GRAYENSIS. TO HIS NOBLE FRIEND, MR. RICHARD LOVELACE, POEMS. SIR, OUR times are much degenerate from those Which your sweet...as complexions alter with the climes, Our wits have drawn th' infection of our times. That candid age no other way could tell To be ingenious, but by speaking... | |
 | Andrew Marvell - 1872 - 562 pages
...Memorial-Introduction for notice of this poem. G. TO HIS NOBLE FKIEND, MR. RICHAKD LOVELACE, UPON HIS POEMS.1 SIR, Ovr times are much degenerate from those Which your sweet...our times, That candid Age no other way could tell 5 To be ingenious, but by speaking well. Who best could prayse, had then the greatest prayse ; 'Twas... | |
 | Andrew Marvell - 1872 - 564 pages
...Memorial-Introduetion for notice of this poem. G. TO HIS NOBLE FRIEND, MR. RICHARD LOVELACE, UPON HIS POEMS. 1 SIB, Ovr times are much degenerate from those Which your sweet...complexions alter with the Climes, Our wits have drawne th' infeetion of our times, That candid Age no other way could tell 5 To be ingenious, but by speaking... | |
 | Cyril Hughes Hartmann - Great Britain - 1925 - 198 pages
...illustration of his own point of view. TO HIS NOBLE FRIEND, MR RICHARD LOVELACE, UPON HIS POEMS Sir, Our times are much degenerate from those, Which your sweet...Who best could prayse, had then the greatest prayse ; 'Twas more esteem'd to give then wear the bayes. Modest ambition studi'd only then To honour not... | |
 | Andrew Marvell - Authors, English - 1927 - 372 pages
...r^f 51 reparato] reparare Cooke To his Noble Friend Mr. Richard Lovelace, upon his Poems. Sir, Our times are much degenerate from those Which your sweet...Who best could prayse, had then the greatest prayse, Twas more esteemd to give, then weare the Bayes : Modest ambition studi'd only then, To honour not... | |
 | Andrew Marvell - Early poetry - 1985 - 324 pages
...Richard Lovelace, upon His Poems Sir, Our times are much degenerate from those Which your sweet muse with your fair fortune chose, And as complexions alter with the climes, Our wits have drawn the infection of our times. To be ingenious, but by speaking well. Who best could praise had... | |
 | Verlyn Klinkenborg, Herbert Cahoon, Pierpont Morgan Library - Antiques & Collectibles - 1981 - 274 pages
...Lovelace, upon his Poems": Our times are much degenerate from those Which your sweet Muse which vour fair Fortune chose, And as complexions alter with the Climes, Our wits have drawne th'infection of our times. Gentlemen We have received yours of the 2) & would not misse answering you... | |
 | R. Wilcher - Literary Criticism - 1985 - 214 pages
...became acquainted at Cambridge: Sir, Our times are much degenerate from those Which your sweet muse with your fair fortune chose, And as complexions alter with the climes, Our wits have drawn the infection of our times. That candid age no other way could tell To be ingenious, but by speaking... | |
 | Andrew Marvell - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 308 pages
...muse, which your fair fortune chose, And as complexions alter with the climes, Our wits have drawn th' infection of our times. That candid age no other...be ingenious, but by speaking well. Who best could praise, had then the greatest praise, 'Twas more esteemed to give than wear the bays: Modest ambition... | |
 | Patsy Griffin - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 228 pages
...dual function in that the absence of praise for Lovelace's poetry itself is rarely noticed: Sir, Our times are much degenerate from those Which your sweet...complexions alter with the Climes, Our wits have drawne th'infection of our times. That candid Age no other way could tell To be ingenious, but by speaking... | |
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infection of our times. That candid Age no other way could tell / To be ingenious, but by speaking well. Who best could prayse, had then the greatest prayse, Twas more... 
