 | Daniel James Ennis, Judith Bailey Slagle - 2007 - 272 páginas
...playwrights of Shakespeare's generation: Wit's now arriv'd to a more high degree; Our native language more refin'd and free; Our ladies and our men now speak more wit In conversation, than those poets writ. (53-56) Dryden, in a clever semantic shift, uses his audience's "wit" to compete with Shakespeare and... | |
 | John Dryden - 2002 - 612 páginas
...is praised. Wit's now arrived to a more high degree, Our native language more refined and free. 25 Our ladies and our men now speak more wit In conversation...That what this poet writes comes short of you And im1tates you ill (which most he fears), 30 Or else his writing is not worse than theirs. Yet though... | |
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Tis not the' poet, but the age is prais'd. Wit's now arriv'd to a more high degree; Our native language more refin'd and free. Our ladies and our men now speak more wit In conversation, than those poets writ. 
