“Ingenious to their ruin, every age improves the art and instruments of rage.”
Source: Poetical Works of Edmund Waller. Edited by Robert Bell
“Ingenious to their ruin, every age improves the art and instruments of rage.”
“If its length be not considered a merit, it hath no other.”
“Under the tropic is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke.”