| George Lillie Craik - 1851 - 192 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. 31. Addison's Panegyric upon Nonsense, from the Fourth Number of "The Whig Examiner :"— 1710. Hudibras... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 sivua
...fault, and 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...profanely, Not being of God, he could not stand." — DBYDEN : Preface to Fables, 1700. The fourth edition of Cowley's works appeared in folio in 1674;... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 472 sivua
...fault, and 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...profanely, Not being of God, he could not stand." — DBYDEN : Preface to Fables, 1700. The fourth edition of Cowley's works appeared in folio in 1674;... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 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...which his works have had in so many successive years, vet at present a hundred books are scarcely purchased once a twelve-month ; for, as my last Lord Rochester"... | |
| George Frederick Graham - 1857 - 416 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 (lie Whig Examiner. 1710.1 Hudibras has defined nonsense... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 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... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 780 sivua
...fault, but hoped the reader would not find it. Foi 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 of fJnH he r.milH nnt etnnr). and nimis poela,1... | |
| John Dryden - 1859 - 480 sivua
...fault,hut hoped the reader would not find it. For this reason, though he must always he thought a great poet, he is no longer esteemed a good writer ; and...so many successive years, yet at present a hundred hooks are scareely purehased once a twelvemonth : for as my last Lord Rochester said, though somewhat... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 766 sivua
...years, yet at present a hundred books are scarcely purchased once a twelve-month ; for, as my last Lord Rochester said, though somewhat profanely, Not...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,... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 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, Nol being of God, he could not stand. Chaucer... | |
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