 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864
...fault, but hoped the reader would not find it. For this reason, though he must always be thought a great poet, he is no longer esteemed a good writer ; and...scarcely purchased once a twelve-month ; for, as my last Lord Rochester said, though somewhat profanely, Not being of God, he could not stand. Chaucer... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 776 sivua
...fault, but hoped the reader would not find it. For this reason, though he must always be thought a great poet, he is no longer esteemed a good writer ; and...are scarcely purchased once a twelve-month ; for. ns my last Lord Rochester said, though somewhat profanely, Not. being of God, he could not stand. Chaucer... | |
 | John Dryden - 1866
...fault, but hoped the reader would not find it. For this reason, though he must always be thought a great poet, he is no longer esteemed a good writer ; and...are scarcely purchased once a twelvemonth : for as niy last Lord Rochester said, though somewhat profanely, Not being of God, he could not stand. Chaucer... | |
 | John Dryden - 1867 - 445 sivua
...fault. but hoped the reader would not find it. For this reason, though he must always be thought a great poet, he is no longer esteemed a good writer : and for ten impressions, which his works have had in eo many successive years, yet at present a hundred books are scarcely purchased once a twelvemonth... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1869 - 358 sivua
...fault, but hoped the reader would not find it. For this reason, though he must always be thought a great poet, he is no longer esteemed a good writer ; and...hundred books are scarcely purchased once a twelvemonth. 13. Addison's 'Panegyric upon Nonsense' : — -from the 'Whig Examiner,' 1710.1 Hudibras has defined... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1869 - 477 sivua
...be thought a great poet, he is np longer esteemed a good writer; and for ten impressions, which hib works have had in so many successive years, yet at...scarcely purchased once a twelve-month; for, as my last Lord Rochester said, though somewhat profanely, Not being of God, he could not stand. Chaucer... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, Sir William Smith - 1850 - 477 sivua
...fault, but hoped the reader would not find it. For this reason, though he must always be thought a great poet, he is no longer esteemed a good writer; and...scarcely purchased once a twelve-month ; for, as my last Lord Rochester said, though somewhat profanely, Not being of God, he could not stand. Chaucer... | |
 | John Dryden - 1897 - 662 sivua
...fault, but hoped the reader would not find it. For this reason, though he must always be thought a great poet, he is no longer esteemed a good writer : and...scarcely purchased once a twelvemonth : for as my last Lord Rochester t said, though somewhat profanely, "Not being of (lod, he could not stand." Chaucer... | |
 | John Dryden - 1871 - 294 sivua
...the 'Fables,' written in 1699, Dryden wrote of Cowley : ' Though he must always be thought a great poet, he is no longer esteemed a good writer ; and...scarcely purchased once a twelvemonth; for, as my last Lord Rochester said, though somewhat profanely, " Not being of God, he could not stand." ' John... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1871
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... the reader would not find it. For this reason, though he must always be thought a great poet, he is no longer esteemed a good writer; and for ten impressions, which his works have had in so many successive years, yet at present a hundred books are... 
