| Edward Phillips - English poetry - 1800 - 440 pages
...Cortegie, le' audaci Imprele, io canto.* " But it is abfurd to think of judging either Ariofto or Spenfer by precepts which they did not attend to. We, who...the days of writing by rule, are apt to try every compofition by thofe laws which we have been taught to think the fole criterion of excellence. Critical... | |
| Edmund Spenser - 1805 - 448 pages
...Cortefie, 1'audaci Imprefe, io canto." But it is abfurd to think of judging either Ariofto or Spenfer by precepts which they did not attend to. We, who...the days of writing by rule, are apt to try every compolition by thofe laws which we have been taught to think the fole criterion of excellence. Critical... | |
| Edmund Spenser - 1805 - 452 pages
...Cortefie, 1'audaci Imprefe, io canto." But it is abfurd to think of judging either Ariofto or Spenfer by precepts which they did not attend to. We, who...the days of writing by rule, are apt to try every compofition by thole laws which we have been taught to think the fole criterion of excellence. Critical... | |
| Edmund Spenser - English poetry - 1807 - 446 pages
...two first verses of his exordium : Bat it is ahsurd to think of judging either Ariosto or Spenser hy precepts which they did not attend to. We, who live in the days of writing hy rule, are apt to try every composition hy those laws which we have heen taught to think the sole... | |
| David Irving - English language - 1841 - 448 pages
...commodities here can make the only amends/or.— Temple on the Advancement of Trade. But it is ahurd to think of judging either Ariosto or Spenser by precepts which they did not attend to.— Warton's Observation* on Spenser. * Mason's Essay on the Power and Harmony of Prosaic Numbers, p. 20.... | |
| George Payn Quackenbos - English language - 1857 - 470 pages
...has talents which are rapidly unfolding into life and vigor, and indomitable energies (§ S72). 17. It is absurd to think of judging either Ariosto or Spenser by precepts which they did not attend to. 18. Force was resisted by force, valor opposed by valor, and art encountered or eluded by similar address... | |
| George Frederick Graham - English language - 1857 - 416 pages
...difficulties that can be raised, and which are not too captious, or too trivial, to take notice of." "It is absurd to think of judging either Ariosto or...Spenser by precepts which they did not attend to." ON ANTITHESIS. A period, when well constructed, has more strength than a loose sentence, because the... | |
| Richard Hiley - 1858 - 216 pages
...their spirits. The faith he professed, and which he became an apostle of, was not his invention. But it is absurd to think of judging either Ariosto or Spenser by precepts which they did not attend to. Shall the narrow-minded children of earth dare to treat as visionary, objects which they have never... | |
| George Payn Quackenbos - English language - 1861 - 468 pages
...has talents which are rapidly unfolding into life and vigor, and indomitable energies (§ 372), 17. It is absurd to think of judging either Ariosto or Spenser by precepts which they did not attend to. 18. Force was resisted by force, valor opposed by valor, and art encountered or eluded by similar address... | |
| Richard Hiley - 1867 - 224 pages
...their spirits. The faith he professed, and which he became an apostle of, was not his invention. But it is absurd to think of judging either Ariosto or Spenser by precepts which they did not attend to. Shall the narrow-minded children of earth dare to treat as visionary, objects which they have never... | |
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