 | John Bell - 1797 - 434 pages
...art indu'd. 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
...art indu'd. 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, Walter Scott - 1808 - 506 pages
...art endued. 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 - 1808 - 500 pages
...art endued. 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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 654 pages
...art endued. Our age was cultivated thus at length ; But what we gaiu'd in skill we lost in strength. THERE was an ancient sage philosopher, That had read Alexander Ross over, And swore t : Till you, the beat Vitruvius, come at length j Our beauties equal, but excel our strength ; Firm... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1819 - 644 pages
...endued. )ur age was cultivated thus at length ; Jut what we gain'd in skill we lost in strength. )ur builders were with want of genius curst; The second temple was not like the first: till you, the best Vitruvius, come at length; >ur beauties equal, but excel our strength ; 'irra Doric... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 504 pages
...art endued. 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
...pay, say. 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
...art indu'd. Our age was cultivated thus at length ; But what we gain'd in skill, we lost in strength. Secnrt prselta Till you, the best Vitruvius, come at length ; Our beauties equal, but excel our strength ; Firm Doric... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1832 - 448 pages
...sharp 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... | |
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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. 
