 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1895 - 650 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... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1895 - 652 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... | |
 | 1895 - 610 páginas
...in our judgment, if compared with the numbers of Lydgate and Gower, his contemporaries : there is a rude sweetness of a Scotch tune in it, which is natural and pleasing, though not perfect." At the same time, it is no doubt necessary, in order to verify the correctness of a less balanced judgment,... | |
 | Charles Edwyn Vaughan - 1896 - 366 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...go so far as he who published the last edition of him;2 for he would make us believe the fault is in our ears, and that there were really ten syllables... | |
 | Emile Legouis - 1896 - 98 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... | |
 | Oskar Schade - 1896 - 436 páginas
...musical; and it continues so even in our judgment, if compared with the numbers of Lydgate and Gower, ЫБ contemporaries; there is the rude sweetness of a Scotch...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... | |
 | Oskar Schade - 1896 - 434 páginas
...judgment, if compared with the numbers ofLydgate and Gower, his contemporaries ; there is the rüde sweetness of a Scotch tune in it, which is natural and pleasing, though not perfect. Tis true, I cannot go so far äs he who published the last edition of him; for he would make us believe... | |
 | Oskar Schade - 1896 - 430 páginas
...judgment, if compared with the numbers ofLydgate and Gower, his contemporaries ; there is the rüde sweetness of a Scotch tune in it, which is natural and pleasing, though not perfect. 'Tis true, I cannot go so far äs he who published the last edition of him; for he would make us believe... | |
 | John Dryden - 1897 - 170 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 rature, because, as it has been... | |
 | John Dryden - 1897 - 166 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... | |
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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... 
