 Euripides, and Sophocles to us; Pacuvius, Accius, him of Cordova dead, To life again, to hear thy buskin tread, And shake a stage; or, when thy socks were on, Leave thee alone for the comparison Of all that insolent Greece or haughty Rome Sent forth,...  The North American Review - Page 5771887Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1875 - 656 pages
...Cordova, dead, To life again, to hear thy buskin tread And shake a stage ; or, when thy socks were on, Leave thee alone for the comparison Of all that insolent Greece or haughty Rome Sent forth, or since diil from their ashes come. Triumph, my Britain ! thou bust one to show, To whom all scenes of Europe... | |
 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - 1870 - 534 pages
...'Timber;' but it is there applied to Lord Bacon. To Shakespeare he says, — " O, when thy socks were on, Leave thee alone, for the comparison Of all, that insolent Greece, or haughtie Bome Sent forth," etc. Of Bacon he writes, — " He who hath filled up all numbers, and performed... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1871 - 996 pages
...Cordova dead, To life again, to hear thy buskin tread, And shake a stage: or, when thy socks were on, Leave thee alone for the comparison Of all that insolent...Rome, Sent forth, or since did from their ashes come. Triumph, my Britain ! thou hast one to show, To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe He was not of... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 pages
...Cordova dead, To live again, to hear thy buskin tread, And shake a stage : or when thy socks were on, Leave thee alone, for the comparison Of all that insolent...Rome Sent forth, or since did from their ashes come. Triumph, my Britain ! thou hast one to show, To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe. He was not of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1872 - 92 pages
...Cordova, dead, To life again, to hear thy buskin tread And shake a stage ; or, when thy socks were on, Leave thee alone for the comparison Of all that insolent...Rome Sent forth, or since did from their ashes come. Triumph, my Britain ! thou hast one to show, He was not of an age, but for all time ! And all the Muses... | |
 | Book - 1872 - 326 pages
...Cordova dead, To live again, to hear thy buskin tread, And shake a stage ; or, when thy socks were on, Leave thee alone for the comparison Of all that insolent...Rome Sent forth, or since did from their ashes come. Triumph, my Britain, thou hast one to show, To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe. * Ironical allusions.... | |
 | 1880 - 592 pages
...or haughty Rome " ; he declares (in poetry) of Shakespeare that he may be left alone — " . . . for comparison Of all that insolent Greece or haughty...Rome Sent forth, or since did from their ashes come." And yet he never, while going from one to the other, mentions Shakespeare to Bacon or Bacon to Shakespeare... | |
 | Anthologia Anglica - 1873 - 512 pages
...Cordova dead, To live again, to hear thy buskin tread, And shake a stage : or when thy socks were on, Leave thee alone for the comparison Of all that insolent...Rome Sent forth, or since did from their ashes come. Triumph, my Britain, thou hast one to show, To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe. He was not of... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1873 - 964 pages
...Cordova, dead To live again, to hear thy buskin tread And shake a stage ; or, when thy socks were on, Leave thee alone for the comparison Of all that insolent...Rome Sent forth, or since did from their ashes come. Triumph, my Britain ! thou hast one to show. To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe* He was not of... | |
 | Henry Philip Dodd - 1875 - 768 pages
...Cordova dead, To life again, to hear thy buskin tread And shake a stage ; or when thy socks were on. Leave thee alone ; for the comparison Of all that...haughty Rome, Sent forth, or since did from their ashes uome. Seward has a distich on the cities which claim Homer's birth : Seven wealthy towns contend for... | |
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