 Than thee the age sees not that thing more grave, More high, more holy, that she more would crave. What name, what skill, what faith hast thou in things! What sight in searching the most antique springs! What weight and what authority in thy speech!  The Classical Journal - Page 1921813Full view - About this book
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 912 pages
...om thee. XIV. 7« William CamJtn. C'AMDP.N,mofl rcv'rend head, to whom I owe All that I am in arts, all that I know ; (How nothing's that :) to whom my country owes The great renown, and n>mc wherewith (he Than thee the age fer s not that thing more grave, More high, more holy, that flie... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 746 pages
...that I am in arts, all that I know. (How nothing's that?) to whom my countrey owes The great renowne, and name wherewith she goes. Than thee the age sees...grave, More high, more holy, that she more would crave. What name,whatskill,what faith hast thou in things! What sight in searching the most antique springs... | |
 | Classical philology - 1813 - 518 pages
...as it is called. TO WILLIAM CAMDEN. Camden, most reverend head, to whom I owe All that I am in arts, all that I know, (How nothing's that!) to whom my...wherewith she goes : Than Thee the age sees not that tiling more grave, More high, more holy, that she more would crave. What name, what skill, what faith,... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - Dramatists, English - 1816 - 482 pages
...from thee. XIV. To WILLIAM CAMDEN. CAM DEN ! most reverend head, to whom I owe All that I am in arts, all that I know ;' (How nothing's that?) to whom my...grave, More high, more holy, that she more would crave. * They gave a cock to /E,srufo;tt .] The last request which Socrates made to his friends was, that... | |
 | William Vincent - Education - 1817 - 236 pages
...called. TO WILLIAM CAMDEN. Camden, most reverend head, to whom I owe Ail that I am in arts, all that / know, (How nothing's that !) to whom my country owes The great renown, and name wherewith she goe« : Than Thee the age sees not that thing more grave, More high, more holy, that she more would... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1818 - 576 pages
...John Bull. "TO WILLIAM CAMDEN. " Camden, most reverend head, to whom I owe " All that I am in arts, all that I know, "(How nothing's that!) to whom my...owes " The great renown and name wherewith she goes: attention being called to these institutions, on which the least suspicion hitherto had rested of any... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1818 - 594 pages
...corroboration of the suspicion, with which some regarded the views of the man most active in the committee of "Than Thee the age sees not that thing more grave, "More high, more holy, that she more would crave. ' What name, what skill, what faith, hast thou in things, ' What sig_ht in searching the most antique... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1819 - 574 pages
...corroboration of the suspicion, with which some regarded the views of the man most active in the committee of " Than Thee the age sees not that thing more grave, "More high, more noly, that she more would crave. " What name, what skill, what faith, hast thou in things, " What sight... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1826 - 840 pages
...CAMDEN. N, most reverend head, to whom I owe All that I am in arts, all that I know. (How nothing 's that !) to whom my country owes The great renown,...wherewith she goes. Than thee the age sees not that tiling more grave, More high, more holy, that she more would crave. What name, what skill, what faith... | |
 | Civilization - 1832 - 406 pages
...the celebrated Ben Jonson : — " Camden, most reverend head, to whom I owe All that 1 am in arts, all that I know ; (How nothing's that!) to whom my...grave, More high, more holy, that she more would crave. What name, what skill, what faith hast thou in things ! What sight in searching the most antique springs... | |
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