 | John Bell - 1797 - 434 pages
...Our age was cultivated thus at length ; But what we gain'd in skill we lost in strength. Our builders were, with want of genius, curst ; The second temple was not like the first , 'Till you, the best Vitruvius, come at length, Our beauties equal, but excel our strength. Firm Doric... | |
 | William Congreve - 1797 - 474 pages
...Our age was cultivated thus at length ; But what we gain'd in skill we lost in strength. Our builders were, with want of genius, curst ; The second temple was not like the first ,'Till you, the best Vitruvius, come at length, Our beauties equal, but excel our strength. Firm D^ric... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 500 pages
...Our age was cultivated thus at length ; But what we gained in skill we lost in strength. Our builders were with want of genius curst; The second temple was not like the first; Till you, the best Vitruvius, come at length, Our beauties equal, but excel our strength. Firm Doric... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 506 pages
...Our age was cultivated thus at length ; But what we gained in skill we lost in strength. Our builders were with want of genius curst; The second temple was not like the first ; Till you, the best Vitruvius, come at length, Our beauties equal, but excel our strength. Firm Doric... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 504 pages
...Our age was cultivated thus at length ; But what we gain'd in skill we lost in strength. Our builders were with want of genius curst ; The second temple was not like the first ; Till you, the best Vitruvius, come at length, Our beauties equal, but excel our strength. Firm Doric... | |
 | 1823 - 734 pages
...Our age was cultivated thus at length, But what we gain'd in skill we lost in strength : Our builders were with want of genius curst ; The second temple was not like the first ; Till you, the best Vitruvius, come at length, Our beauties equal, but excel our rtrcngth — Drydm.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...age was cultivated thus at length ; But what we gain'd in skill, we lost in strength. Our builders elta Till you, the best Vitruvius, come at length ; Our beauties equal, but excel our strength ; Firm Doric... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1832 - 438 pages
...convulsive pangs of agonizing pride !" J Hind and Panther. Of elevation and proportion: — " Our builders were with want of genius curst ; The second temple was not like the first ; Till you, the best Vitruvius, come at length, Our beauties equal, but excel our strength : Firm Doric... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1832 - 448 pages
...convulsive pangs of agonizing pride !" J Hind and Panther. Of elevation and proportion: — " Our builders were with want of genius curst ; The second temple was not like the first ; Till you, the best Vitruvius, come at length, Our beauties equal, but excel our strength : Firm Doric... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - 1833 - 764 pages
...Our age was cultivated thus at length, But what we gain'd in skill, we lost in strength. Our builders were with want of genius curst ; The second temple was not like the first ; Till you, the best Vitruvius, came at length; Our beauties equal, but excel our strength. natural... | |
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Our builders were with want of genius curst ; The second temple was not like the first ; Till you, the best Vitruvius, come at length, Our beauties equal, but excel our strength. 
