 | Charles Edwyn Vaughan - 1896 - 366 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 twelvemonth; for as my last Lord Rochester said, though somewhat profanely, "Not being of God, he could not stand ". Chaucer... | |
 | Charles Edwyn Vaughan - 1896 - 330 sivua
...successive years, yet at present a hundred books are scarcely purchased once a twelvemonth; for as my last Lord Rochester said, though somewhat profanely, "Not...God, he could not stand ". Chaucer followed nature everywhere, but was never so bold to go beyond her; and there is a great difference of being pocta... | |
 | Yarnall - 1897 - 104 sivua
...Juvenal, 1693. — Slit was a fault, but hoped the reader would not find it. For this reason a great poet, he is no longer esteemed a good writer : and...somewhat profanely, not being of God, he could not stand. Such a superficial judgment could only arise from a superficial reading of Cowley: Errors, like straws,... | |
 | Emma A. Yarnall - 1897 - 254 sivua
...Dedication of Juvenal, 1693. it was a fault, but hoped the reader would not find it. For this reason a great poet, he is no longer esteemed a good writer : and...books are scarcely purchased once a twelvemonth : for äs my Lord Rochester said, though somewhat profanely, not being of God, he could not stand. Such a... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900 - 350 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...had in so many successive years, yet at present a 20 hundred books are scarcely purchased once a twelvemonth ; for, as my last Lord Rochester said, though... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900 - 348 sivua
...years, yet at present a .,o hundred books are scarcely purchased once a twelvemonth ; for, as my last Lord Rochester said, though somewhat profanely, Not...of God, he could not stand. Chaucer followed Nature everywhere, but was never 25 so bold to go beyond her ; and there is a great difference of being poeta... | |
 | Thomas Longueville - 1902 - 388 sivua
...that Cowley's books were not selling so well as they had sold formerly, observes: " For, as my last Lord Rochester said, though somewhat profanely, ' Not being of God, he could not stand' V But of all modern authors, Rochester preferred the French poet, Boileau, who, like Cowley, lived... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1905 - 426 sivua
...but hoped the reader would 5 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 10 said, though somewhat profanely, " Not being of God, he could not stand." Chaucer... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 530 sivua
...swept, like a drag-net, great and small. . . . For this reason, though he must always be thought a great poet, he is no longer esteemed a good writer ; and...present a hundred books are scarcely purchased once a twelve month : for, as my last Lord Rochester said, though somewhat profanely, " Not being of God he... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1905 - 422 sivua
...present a hundred books are scarcely purchased once a twelvemonth ; for, as my last Lord Rochester 10 said, though somewhat profanely, " Not being of God, he could not stand." Chaucer followed nature everywhere, but was never so bold to go beyond her, and there is a great difference of being poeta... | |
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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... 
