| John Dryden - 1897 - 170 páginas
...thought it 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...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 - 1898 - 170 páginas
...thought it musical; and it continues so, even in our judgment, if compared with the numbers of Lidgate and Gower, his contemporaries: — there is the rude...is 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... | |
| John Dryden - 1898 - 114 páginas
...thought it musical ; and it continues so even in our judgment, if compared with the numbers of Lidgate and Gower, his contemporaries : there is the rude...is 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... | |
| John Dryden - 1898 - 120 páginas
...thought it musical; and it continues so even in our judgment, if compared with the numbers of Lydgate and Gower, his contemporaries : there is the rude...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... | |
| John Dryden - 1899 - 224 páginas
...thought it musical ; and it continues so even in our judgment, if compared with the numbers of Lydgate and Gower, his contemporaries : there is the rude...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... | |
| R. McWilliam - 1900 - 834 páginas
...thought it musical ; and it continues so, even in our judgment, if compared with the numbers of Lidgate and Gower, his contemporaries ; there is the rude...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... | |
| John Dryden - 1900 - 760 páginas
...thought it musical ; and it continues so even in our judgment, if compared with the numbers of Lydgate and Gower, his contemporaries : there is the rude...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... | |
| Henry Charles Beeching - 1900 - 330 páginas
...thought it musical ; and it continues so even in our judgment, if compared with the numbers of Lidgate and Gower, his contemporaries : there is the rude...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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