 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 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 said, though somewhat profanely, Not being of GOD, he could not stand. Chaucer... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 670 sivua
...years, yet 1 at present a hundred books are scarcely purchased once a twelvemonth ; for, as my last Lord Rochester said, though somewhat profanely, Not...followed nature every where ; but was never so bold to go beyond her : and there is a great difference of being poeta and nimis poeta, if we may believe... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 662 sivua
...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...his works have had in so many successive years, yet 1 at present a hundred books are scarcely purchased once a twelvemonth ; for, as my last Lord Rochester... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 sivua
...good writer ; and for ten impressions, which his works have had in so many successive years, yet 1 at present a hundred books 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... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1805 - 376 sivua
...fault, bnt 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 said, though somewhat profanely, Not being of God, he could not stand. " Chaucer... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1805 - 370 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 said, though somewhat profanely, Not being of God, he could not stand. " Chaucer... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 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...books are scarcely purchased once a twelvemonth." It is a circumstance of literary history worth mentioning, that Chaucer was more than 60 years old... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 458 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 so minv successive years, yet at present a hundred book are scarcely purchased once a twelvemonth : for,... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 506 sivua
...reputation. 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 said, though somewhat profanely, " Not being of God, he could not stand." Chaucer... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 500 sivua
...reputation. 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 said, though somewhat profanely, " Not being of God, he could not stand." Chaucer... | |
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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... 
