 | John Dryden - English prose literature - 1800 - 712 pages
...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...wholly superfluous, and renders the sentence inelegant. ' Our author's memory has here, I believe, deceived him. I cannot find any such observation in Catullus,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 662 pages
...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...is true, I cannot go so far as he who published the * This adversative particle is here wholly superfluous, and renders the sentence inelegant. 3 Our author's... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 pages
...musical ; and it continues so even in our judgment, if compared with the numbers of Lydgate and Grower, his contemporaries : there is the rude sweetness of...is true, I cannot go so far as he who published the * This adversative particle is here wholly superfluous, and renders tiie sentence inelegant. ' Our... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 376 pages
...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...not perfect. It is true, I cannot go so far as he F2 who published the last edition of him *; for he would make us believe the fault is in our ears,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 370 pages
...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...not perfect. It is true, I cannot go so far as he F2 who published the last edition of him *; for he would make us believe the fault is in our ears,... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 458 pages
...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, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 506 pages
...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...true, I cannot go so far as he * who published the last edition of him ; for he would make us believe * Thomas Speght's edition of Chaucer was published... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 500 pages
...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...true, I cannot go so far as he * who published the last edition of him ; for he would make us believe * Thomas Speght's edition of Chaucer was published... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 612 pages
...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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 664 pages
...musical; and it continues so even in our judgment, if compared with the numbers of Lidgate and Gdwer, his contemporaries: there is the rude sweetness of...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... | |
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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... 
