 | John Dryden - 1874 - 301 páginas
...the ' Fables,' written in 1699, Dryden wrote of Cowley : ' Though he must always be thought a great poet, he is no longer esteemed a good writer ; and...scarcely purchased once a twelvemonth ; for, as my last Lord Rochester said, though somewhat profanely, " Not being of God, he could not stand." ' John... | |
 | John Dryden - 1874 - 301 páginas
...the ' Fables,' written in 1659, Dryden wrote of Cowley : ' Though he must always be thought a great poet, he is no longer esteemed a good writer ; and...scarcely purchased once a twelvemonth ; for, as my last Lord Rochester said, though somewhat profanely, " Not being of God, he could not stand." ' John... | |
 | John Dryden - 1878 - 301 páginas
...to the 'Fables,' written in 1699, Dryden wrote of Cowley: 'Though he must always be thought a great poet, he is no longer esteemed a good writer ; and...scarcely purchased once a twelvemonth ; for, as my last Lord Rochester said, though somewhat profanely, " Not being of God, he could not stand." ' John... | |
 | John Dryden - 1878 - 301 páginas
...to the 'Fables,' written in 1699, Dryden wrote of Cowley: ' Though he must always be thought a great poet, he is no longer esteemed a good writer; and...scarcely purchased once a twelvemonth; for, as my last Lord Rochester said, though somewhat profanely, " Not being of God, he could not stand."' John... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1885
...fault, but hoped the reader would not find it. For this reason, though he must always be thought a great poet, he is no longer esteemed a good writer; and...scarcely purchased once a twelvemonth ; for, as my last Lord Rochester said, though somewhat profanely, " Not being of God, he could not stand." Chaucer... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1871
...swept, like a drag-net, great and small. For this reason, though hs must always be thought a great poet, he is no longer esteemed a good writer, and for ten impressions which his work* have had in many successive years, yet at present a hundred books are scarcely purchased once... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - 1891 - 701 páginas
...fault, but hoped the reader would not find it. For this reason, though he must always be thought a great poet, he is no longer esteemed a good writer ; and...scarcely purchased once a twelvemonth ; for, as my last Lord Rochester said, though somewhat profanely, " Not being of God, he could not stand." Chaucer... | |
 | 1906
...fault, but hoped the reader would not find it. For this reason, though he must always be thought a great poet, he is no longer esteemed a good writer ; and...scarcely purchased once a twelvemonth ; for as my last Lord Rochester said, though somewhat profanely, Not being of God, he could not stand." Five years... | |
 | Charles Edwyn Vaughan - 1896 - 219 páginas
...fault, but hoped the reader would not find it. For this reason, though he must always be thought a great poet, he is no longer esteemed a good writer; and...are scarcely purchased once a twelvemonth; for as my last Lord Rochester said, though somewhat profanely, "Not being of God, he could not stand ". Chaucer... | |
 | Charles Edwyn Vaughan - 1896 - 219 páginas
...successive years, yet at present a hundred books are scarcely purchased once a twelvemonth; for as my last Lord Rochester said, though somewhat profanely, "Not...God, he could not stand ". Chaucer followed nature everywhere, but was never so bold to go beyond her; and there is a great difference of being pocta... | |
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... the reader would not find it. For this reason, though he must always be thought a great poet, he is no longer esteemed a good writer; and for ten impressions, which his works have had in so many successive years, yet at present a hundred books are... 
