 | 1897 - 610 páginas
...eloquence of one, whom Tacitus commends, it was auribus istius temporis accommodata" ; und weiter: 'Tis true, I cannot go so far, as he, who published the...last edition of him; for he would make us believe, that the fault is in our ears, and that there were really ten syllables in a verse, where we find but... | |
 | Otto Bischoff - 1897 - 50 páginas
...eloquence of one, whom Tacitus commcnds, it was auribus istius temporis accominodata"; und weiter: 'Tis true, I cannot go so far, as he, who published the...last edition of him ; for he would make us believe, that the fault is in our ears, and that there were really ten syllables in a verse, where we find but... | |
 | John Dryden - 1898 - 120 páginas
...musical; and it continues so even in our judgment, if compared with the numbers of Lydgate and Gower, his contemporaries : there is the rude sweetness of...which is natural and pleasing, though not perfect. . . . " He must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive nature, because, as it has been truly... | |
 | 1898 - 512 páginas
...one, whom Tacitus commends, it was auribus istius temporis accommodata' ; und weiter : 'Tis true, 1 cannot go so far, as he, who published the last edition of him; for he would make us believe, that the fault is in our ears, and that there were really ten syllables in a verse, where we find but... | |
 | John Dryden - 1899 - 222 páginas
...musical ; and it continues so even in our judgment, if compared with the numbers of Lydgate and Gower, his contemporaries : there is the rude sweetness of...which is natural and pleasing, though not perfect. 'Tis true, I cannot go so far as he who published the last edition of him ; for he would make us believe... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1899 - 626 páginas
...praised its matter admirably ; but of its exquisite manner and movement all he can find to say is that ' there is the rude sweetness of a Scotch tune in it,...which is natural and pleasing, though not perfect.' Addison, wishing to praise Chaucer's numbers, compares them with Dryden's own. And all through the... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900 - 760 páginas
...musical ; and it continues so even in our judgment, if compared with the numbers of Lydgate and Gower, his contemporaries : there is the rude sweetness of...which is natural and pleasing, though not perfect. 'Tis true, I cannot go so far as he who published the last edition of him ; for he would make us believe... | |
 | R. McWilliam - 1900 - 834 páginas
...musical ; and it continues so, even in our judgment, if compared with the numbers of Lidgate and Gower, his contemporaries ; there is the rude sweetness of...which is natural and pleasing though not perfect. The translation of Virgil was a great success ; the first edition was published in 1697, and was exhausted... | |
 | Henry Charles Beeching - 1900 - 330 páginas
...musical ; and it continues so even in our judgment, if compared with the numbers of Lidgate and Gower, his contemporaries : there is the rude sweetness of...which is natural and pleasing, though not perfect. :Tis true I cannot go so far as he who published the last edition of him ; for he would make us believe... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900 - 140 páginas
...harmonious to us; ... they who lived with him, and some time after him, thought it musical ; . . . there is the rude sweetness of a Scotch tune in it,...which- is natural and pleasing, though not perfect. . . . He must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive nature, because ... he has taken into... | |
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Tis true, I cannot go so far as he who published the last edition of him; for he would make us believe the fault is in our ears, and that there were really ten syllables in a verse where we find but nine : but this opinion is not worth confuting... 
